Grave Family History
- Grave Name Meaning
- English: occupational name from Middle English greyve ‘steward’, from Old Norse greifi or Low German greve (see Graf). English: topographic name, a variant of Grove. French: topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of gravelly soil, from Old French grave ‘gravel’ (of Celtic origin). North German: either from the northern form of Graf, but more commonly a topographic name from Middle Low German grave ‘ditch’, ‘moat’, ‘channel’, or a habitational name from any of several places in northern Germany named with this word.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 160,377 Historical Documents with Grave on Ancestry
- 72,954 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 25,415 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,674 Military Records
- 4,709 Immigration Records
- 49,625 Member Trees
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Number of Grave families
 14 - 26  5 - 13 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Grave families
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63 - 124 22 - 62 |
1 - 21 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Grave families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Grave census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Grave families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions. A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in your family.
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Grave census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Grave ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
- All Grave
- 51
- Confederate
- 6
- Union
- 45
from the Civil War Service Records
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