Grant Family History
Grant Name Meaning
English and (especially) Scottish (of Norman origin), and
French: nickname from Anglo-Norman French graund, graunt
‘tall’, ‘large’ (Old French grand, grant, from Latin
grandis), given either to a person of remarkable size, or else
in a relative way to distinguish two bearers of the same personal
name, often representatives of different generations within the same
family.English and Scottish: from a medieval personal
name, probably a survival into Middle English of the Old English
byname Granta (see Grantham).Probably a respelling
of German Grandt or Grand.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Grant
Name Distribution of Grant Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Grant families
 1,467 - 2,931  490 - 1,466 |
 1 - 489  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Grant families
|
1,114 - 2,225 372 - 1,113 |
1 - 371 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Grant Family Origin
Grant Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Grant Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Grant Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Grant census records
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Military Service by Grant
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