Brief Life History of Mary
Mary Grice married Robert Mayes on 29 May 1720, in Cratfield, Suffolk, England. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters.
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- Mary Grice, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Mary Grice in entry for Robert Mayes, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- Mary in entry for Anne Mayes, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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Name Meaning
English (Midlands): from Middle English grice, grise ‘pig’ (Old Norse gríss), probably a nickname or a metonymic occupational name for a swineherd.
English: nickname for a gray-haired man, from Middle English grice, gris ‘gray’ (Old French gris, apparently of ancient Germanic origin, and probably a distant cognate of Gray 1).
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Greis .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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