English: habitational name from the city of Gloucester. The place
originally bore the British name Glevum (apparently from a
cognate of Welsh gloyw ‘bright’), to which was added the Old
English element ceaster ‘Roman fort or walled city’ (Latin
castra ‘legionary camp’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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