from an Old French term denoting earthenware and, by
extension, a particular type of earthenware vessel from which new wine
was drunk, hence probably a metonymic occupational name for a maker of
such crocks.
from caielier, an occupational name for a
chair maker, from an agent derivative of caiel ‘chair’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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