Gridley Family History

English:: variant of Greasley either a habitational name from Greasley in Nottinghamshire (but possibly also from Gresley in Derbyshire) or a nickname either from Old French greslet ‘marked as by hail’ i.e. pitted or pock-marked or Old French greslet gresli grailet ‘thin slim’.

Perhaps from Middle English greithli gritheli ‘good pleasant noble’ (Old Norse greithligr) the source of modern northern dialect gradely ‘decent honest good-looking kind’.

In the absence of medieval surname forms this is conjectural.