Gronau Family History
- Gronau Name Meaning
- German: habitational name from any of eleven places in northern Germany so named, from Middle Low German grone ‘green’ + owe ‘water meadow’ or ‘river island’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 47,869 Historical Documents with Gronau on Ancestry
- 37,997 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,200 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,413 Military Records
- 1,247 Immigration Records
- 4,012 Member Trees
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Number of Gronau families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gronau census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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