Grover Family History
- Grover Name Meaning
- North German: occupational name for a ditch or grave digger, from Middle Low German grove ‘hollow’, ‘grave’. Americanized form of German and Swiss Gruber. Southern English: topographic name for someone who lived by a grove, a variant of Grove 1 + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant. Indian (Panjab): Hindu and Sikh name of unknown origin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,078,791 Historical Documents with Grover on Ancestry
- 235,481 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 180,497 Census and Voter Lists
- 33,172 Military Records
- 10,563 Immigration Records
- 619,078 Member Trees
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Number of Grover families
 146 - 289  49 - 145 |
 1 - 48  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Grover families
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434 - 866 145 - 433 |
1 - 144 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Grover families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Grover census records
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- England (27)
- Germany (27)
- Ireland (8)
- Austria (5)
- Great Britain (5)
- United Kingdom;Great Britain (4)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- 775
- Confederate
- 97
- Union
- 678
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