When Charles Graves was born about 1786, in Penobsquis, Cardwell, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, William Graves II, was 26 and his mother, Emma Elizabeth Armstrong, was 22. He married Ann DeBow about 1804, in New Brunswick, British North America. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 20 February 1868, in Goshen, Elgin, Albert, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 83.
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The British North America Act or Constitution Act of 1867 caused three British colonies, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada to be united as one under the name Canada. Until this point New Brunswick had been the British crown colony.
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.
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