Gravely Family History
Gravely Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Gravely in Cambridgeshire or
Graveley in Hertfordshire. The first is possibly from Old English
græf ‘pit’, ‘trench’ + leah ‘woodland
clearing’. The second is from Old English gr?fe,
graf(a) ‘grove’, ‘copse’ + leah.Possibly an altered spelling of Swiss Gräffi, a variant
of Graf.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gravely
Name Distribution of Gravely Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gravely families
 29 - 55  10 - 28 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gravely families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gravely census records
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Gravely Family Origin
Gravely Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Gravely Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Gravely census records
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Military Service by Gravely
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