Belgrave Family History
Belgrave Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Belgrave Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Belgrave families
 6 - 10  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Belgrave families
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11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Belgrave families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Belgrave Family Origin
Belgrave Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Belgrave
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Belgrave Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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