When Rebecca Graves was born on 5 February 1660, in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Nathaniel Graves Sr., was 31 and her mother, Martha Betts, was 36. She died in 1661, in her hometown, at the age of 1, and was buried in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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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.
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