When Nellie Grace was born on 18 April 1896, in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Henry Grace, was 25 and her mother, Susannah Bradley, was 24. She married Selwyn James Davis in December 1914, in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Handsworth, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911 and Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom in 1939. She died on 5 March 1993, in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 96.
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English: nickname from Old French cras, gras ‘fat, big’ (from Latin crassus, Anglo-Latin grassus).
English: topographic name from Middle English gras ‘grass, pasture’ (Old English græs), for someone who lived near an area of grassland.
Scottish: in some instances, probably a variant of Gracey .
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