Greaves Family History
Greaves Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Old English gr?fe
‘brushwood’, ‘thicket’, or a habitational name from any of the places
named with this word, for example in Cumbria, Lancashire, and
Staffordshire. egs. from OSGAZ.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Greaves
Name Distribution of Greaves Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Greaves families
 1,314 - 2,626  439 - 1,313 |
 1 - 438  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Greaves families
|
8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Greaves census records
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Greaves Family Origin
Greaves Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Greaves Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Greaves Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Greaves census records
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Military Service by Greaves
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