GAZE

Origin and etymology In historic texts In the 1881 census Distribution map

As described in historical dictionaries

Patronymica Britannica (1860)

GAZE. Mr. Ferguson refers it to an Old German personal name, Gaiso, which Forstmann derives from gais, ger, a spear.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

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