When Alfred Graveny was born on 24 October 1830, in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, his father, John Graveney, was 40 and his mother, Lydia Physic, was 38. He married Ann Thomas in 1851, in St Luke, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Lambeth, Surrey, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. He died in June 1872, in Lambeth, London, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 41.
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English (Surrey and Sussex): habitational name from Graveley in Hertfordshire, Gravelye in Lindfield (Sussex), or Gravely in Cambridgeshire. The first and second are from Old English grāf(a) or grǣfe ‘grove, copse’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, and the third is either from the same elements or is more likely from Old English græf ‘pit, trench’ + lēah.
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