When Tomas Grant was born on 24 April 1860, in Chascomús, Buenos Aires, Argentina, his father, Diego Grant MacDonald, was 33 and his mother, Martha Liddle, was 30. He married Juana Black Rodger on 14 November 1888, in Chascomús, Buenos Aires, Argentina. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 8 June 1925, in Coronel Dorrego, Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the age of 65, and was buried in Llavallol, Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Irish, English, and especially Scottish (of Norman origin): nickname from Anglo-Norman French graund, graunt ‘tall, large’ (Old French grand, grant, from Latin grandis), given either to a person of remarkable size, or else in a relative way to distinguish two bearers of the same personal name, often representatives of different generations within the same family.
English: from the rare Middle English (and Old English) personal name Grante or Grente.
Irish: in Ireland this is usually the Norman Scottish name (see 1 above), but it was also adopted for Irish Mag Raighne, see Graney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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