Brief Life History of Granville B.
When Granville B. Martin was born on 6 June 1899, in Lititz, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Phares Erb Martin, was 33 and his mother, Mary Ellen Butzer, was 24. He had at least 1 son with Pauline M Hetrick. He lived in Warwick Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Ephrata Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. He died in January 1985, at the age of 85.
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- Granville Martin in household of Phares Martin, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Granville Martin - Individual or family possessions: birth: 6 June 1899; Lititz, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
- Granville Martin in household of Phares Martin, "United States Census, 1940"
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Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Irish, French, Walloon, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Italian (Veneto); Spanish (Martín): from a personal name derived from Latin Martinus, itself a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’. This was borne by a famous 4th-century Christian saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In North America, the surname Martin has absorbed cognates and derivatives from other languages, e.g. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Marcin , Albanian Martini , Polish surnames beginning with Marcin-, and Slovenian patronymics like Martinčič (see Martincic ). Martin is the most frequent surname in France and one of the most frequent surnames in Wallonia.
English: variant of Marton .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mártain, ‘descendant of Martin’ (compare 1 above). Otherwise, a shortened form of Gilmartin or McMartin ; sometimes also spelled Martyn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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