When Howard Raphael Grant was born on 3 September 1885, in Volga, Brookings, South Dakota, United States, his father, Ernaldo Couch Grant, was 36 and his mother, Mary Maria Fry, was 15. He married Lulubelle Swift Hunter. He lived in King, Washington, United States in 1920 and Foy, Seattle, King, Washington, United States in 1930. He died on 14 October 1960, in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States.
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 .
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