Scottish and Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille
Easbuig (Scottish), Mac Giolla Easpaig (Irish), patronymics
from a byname meaning ‘servant of the bishop’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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