English: habitational name from a place in Norfolk, so named from
Old English græs, gærs ‘grass(land)’, ‘pasturage’
+ ham ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by
water’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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