Richard Charles Gravet was born in 1711, in King William, Virginia, British Colonial America as the son of Charles Gravett and Ann Graves. He married Jane Lyne about 1734. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 10 February 1780, in Lunenburg, Virginia, United States, at the age of 69.
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English (Norfolk): occupational name for an engraver, from Middle English graver(e), grafer(e), gravo(u)r ‘engraver, carver, sculptor’, Old English grafere, græfere, Old French graveur.
English: alternatively, an occupational name for a miner, from Middle English graver(e) ‘miner, digger’, from Old English grafan ‘to dig’.
Dutch: equivalent of German Graber .
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