When Arthur Pierrepont Greaves was christened on 5 December 1852, in Hulme St Mark, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Greaves, was 46 and his mother, Caroline Pierrepont, was 28. He married Grace Stephens in 1881, in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter.
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The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
The Lancashire Rifle Volunteers started in the eighteenth century. Those that fought in the militia were selected by ballot. They were formed because of threat due to the Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War.
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English:
topographic name from Old English grǣfe ‘brushwood, thicket’, or a habitational name from any of the places called with this word. In Yorkshire the name comes from The Greaves in Beeley (Derbyshire), now known as Beeley Hilltop. In Lancashire the name may instead derive from a locality called Greaves in Preston.
alternatively, it may be a variant of Greve , with post-medieval excrescent -s, or of Graves or Grieves .
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