Greazle meaning | Last name Greazle origin

The family name is the variant of Grille. One who came from Grill, the name of several places in Germany and Austria; dweller at the sign of the cricket.

Greazle is a variant form of Gresley. Did no such place as Gresley, county of Derby, exist, as the ancestor of the family, That Domesday tenant, Albertus Greslet, who held "inter Ripam et Mersam;" but the Gresley pedigree is clearly traced to the Conquest, and even to an earlier date, as cadets of the great house of Toni, hereditary standard-bearers of Normandy. "Descended from Nigel, called De Stafford, mentioned in Domesday and said to have been a younger son of Roger de Toni, and very soon after the Conquest established in Derbyshire, first at Grealey (unde nomen) and afterwards at Drakelow in the same parish," where they still remain.