Northgraves Family History
Northgraves Name Meaning
apparently a Yorks variant of Norgrove . While the surname Norgrove is most common to the W Midlands having its origin in one of two places in Worcs a small number of bearers are recorded in parish registers from Yorks where the surname may in some cases have become Northgraves via forms such as Norgrave Norgraves and Northgrave.
Source: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, 2021