Grace Family History
- Grace Name Meaning
- nickname from Middle English, Old French grace ‘charm’, ‘pleasantness’ (Latin gratia). from the female personal name Grace, which was popular in the Middle Ages. This seems in the first instance to have been from a Germanic element gris ‘gray’ (see Grice 1), but was soon associated by folk etymology with the Latin word meaning ‘charm’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,147,631 Historical Documents with Grace on Ancestry
- 411,387 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 268,610 Census and Voter Lists
- 37,043 Military Records
- 35,106 Immigration Records
- 395,485 Member Trees
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Number of Grace families
 424 - 845  142 - 423 |
 1 - 141  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Grace families
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16 - 30 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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