Grice Family History
Grice Name Meaning
nickname for a gray-haired man, from Middle English
grice, gris ‘gray’ (Old French gris, apparently
of Germanic origin, and probably a distant cognate of Gray
1).from Middle English grice, grise ‘pig’ (Old
Norse gríss, probably akin to 1), hence a metonymic
occupational name for a swineherd or a nickname.Possibly
an Americanized spelling of German Greis.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Grice Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Grice families
 49 - 96  17 - 48 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Grice families
|
258 - 513 87 - 257 |
1 - 86 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Grice families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Grice Family Origin
Grice Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Grice
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Grice Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Grice census records
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Grice Civil War Service Records
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