Grave Family History
Grave Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English greyve
‘steward’, from Old Norse greifi or Low German greve
(see Graf).English: topographic name, a variant of
Grove.French: topographic name for someone who
lived on a patch of gravelly soil, from Old French grave
‘gravel’ (of Celtic origin).North German: either from the
northern form of Graf, but more commonly a topographic name
from Middle Low German grave ‘ditch’, ‘moat’, ‘channel’, or a
habitational name from any of several places in northern Germany named
with this word.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Grave
Name Distribution of Grave Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Grave families
 63 - 124  22 - 62 |
 1 - 21  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Grave families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Grave census records
You can see how Grave families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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Grave Family Origin
Grave Emigration Information (US)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Grave emigration records
You can find out when most of the Grave families immigrated
to the United States.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Grave Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Grave families immigrated
to Australia.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Grave Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Grave census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Grave ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Grave
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