The belgrave Surname
belgrave Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from a place in Leicestershire, recorded
in Domesday Book as Merdegrave. The original name derived from
Old English mearð ‘marten’ + graf ‘grove’, but
after the Norman Conquest the first element was taken to be Old French
merde ‘dung’, ‘filth’, and changed to Old French beu,
bel ‘fair’, ‘lovely’, to remove the unpleasant association. A
mid 12th-century writer refers to the place as ‘Merthegrave,
nunc (now) Belegrava’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Threads: 6 - Messages: 12
| Thread | Author | Replies |
| Parents of Richard Belgrave |
 rubyredgemz
| 3 |
| parents of john belgrave who married joan strutt | lou currier | 0 |
| Charles T. BELGRAVE b. August 1872, died in 1938 in Muskegon, Michigan |
RondaLOberlin
| 3 |
| BELGRAVE Jonathon born abt 1657 married Mary ...... children born Lowestoft, Suffolk | Wendy Ford | 0 |
| WARREN BELGRAVE 1925 - 1990 |
TIGHTJEANSINCALI
| 0 |
| BELGRAVE of Groningen, Holland | Roland Van Denderen | 0 |
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