Grass Family History
- Grass Name Meaning
- English and German: topographic name for someone who owned or lived by a meadow, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or sold hay, from Middle English gras, Middle High German gras ‘grass’, ‘pasture’, ‘grazing’. English: nickname for a stout man, from Anglo-Norman French gras ‘fat’, from Latin crassus (which was itself used as a Roman family name), with the initial changed under the influence of grossus (see Gross). Scottish: occupational name, reduced from Gaelic greusaiche ‘shoemaker’. A certain John Grasse alias Cordonar (Middle English cordewaner ‘shoemaker’) is recorded in Scotland in 1539. South German: nickname for an irascible man, from Middle High German graz ‘intense’, ‘angry’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 287,808 Historical Documents with Grass on Ancestry
- 108,326 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 57,446 Census and Voter Lists
- 11,123 Military Records
- 6,242 Immigration Records
- 104,671 Member Trees
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Number of Grass families
 18 - 33  7 - 17 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Grass families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Grass census records
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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 1881 UK Census Data
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