When Joseph Linas Graves was born in 1809, in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, his father, Joseph Graves, was 30 and his mother, Rebecca Shipman, was 25. He died on 17 June 1811, in Chester, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 2.
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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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