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A common surname of long ago which is derived from the
Gaelic adjective, glas, meaning 'grey' This name is of Scottish descent
and is found in many ancient manuscripts in the above country. Examples of
such are a Glass of Ascog in Bute, who was one of the families locally
called barons from the fifteenth century till recently.Alexander Glass had a
grant of half of the lands of Langilculcreich in Bute in the year 1506.
Names were recorded in these ancient documents to make it easier for their
overlords to collect taxes and to keep records of the population at any
given time. When the overlords acquired lands by either force or gifts from
their rulers, they created charters of ownership for themselves and their
vassals. Other examples of this name were found in the person of John Glass
who was a 'butcher' in Elgin in record in 1674 and Rev. John Glass, minister
of Tealing, was the founder of the religious body known as ' Glassites ' and
later Sandemanians. |
