When Rachel Graves was born in 1835, in Pereaux, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Phineas W Graves, was 30 and her mother, Eliza Jane Johnson, was 25. She married Levi Rand on 31 March 1855. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Canning, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada for about 10 years and Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1901. She died on 12 April 1907, at the age of 72, and was buried in Blomidon, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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English (northern and eastern England): variant of Grave , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: alternatively, a variant of Greaves or Grieves .
Altered form of German Greff , with the addition of excrescent -s, a common feature of Americanized surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesWoolaver farm Blomidon, Kings Co. Nova Scotia---Rachel came to this farm as a bride of Levi Rand in 1862. After the death of Levi Rachel married James Woolaver in 1869. Rachel's first husband died …
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