Granger Family History
Granger Name Meaning
English and French: occupational name for a farm bailiff,
responsible for overseeing the collection of rent in kind into the
barns and storehouses of the lord of the manor. This official had the
Anglo-Norman French title grainger, Old French grangier,
from Late Latin granicarius, a derivative of granica
‘granary’ (see Grange).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Granger
Name Distribution of Granger Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Granger families
 179 - 355  60 - 178 |
 1 - 59  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Granger families
|
104 - 205 35 - 103 |
1 - 34 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Granger census records
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Granger Family Origin
Granger Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Granger Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Granger census records
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Military Service by Granger
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