Glasspoole Surname History
Origin Displayed: ENGLAND

 The Blazon of Arms appended below was granted to the Glass family.

BLAZON OF ARMS: Argent, a fleur-de-lis between three mullets within a bordure gules.
CREST : A mermaid with mirror and comb proper.
 

The surname Glasspool is composed of a compound of the old English words "Glaes", and "pol", meaning "glass, and pool", translated literally we have "one who dwelt by the glass pool, or the blue-green pool". This provides it's toponymic origin, referring to a distinction of the local landscape or area in which the bearer lived or held land, in this case a pool sufficiently well known as to afford the name bearer a suitable form of identity in his local community. It was in the thirteenth century that the adding of surnames became fashionable as the population expanded rapidly, and shifted from the countryside into the towns and villages, and it had become necessary to be able to distinguish between individuals reliably for reasons such as commercial transactions, land transfers etc. As is frequently the case, the name has disappeared entirely from home country records without trace, and having been introduced into another country through immigration has been preserved there in it's original form. The prefix name "Glass" has been added to a number of suffixes to from many family and place names in Britain, such as Glassman, Glasscock, Glassbrook, Glascott, Glasscote, Glasscoe, etc.
The name Glass also appears in Scotland, and Ireland, where it has two possible and different origins, mainly patronymic, and earliest written references to the name or a variant date back to the year 1506, when Alexander Glass was granted land in Bute, and in 1674, when John Glass was a butcher in Elgin. In 1322 Walter de Glasscote is found in the Subsidy Rolls for Sussex, and in the year 1350, William de Glasebrok is mentioned in the Feet of Fines Rolls for Yorkshire. In the year 1841, there is record of the surname Glass being introduced into Australia, through immigration from Ireland.