When Judge Alma Grant was born in 1848, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Joshua Frederick Grant, was 30 and his mother, Louisa Marie Golay, was 22. He died on 21 November 1852, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 4, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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1818–1851 Male
1826–1876 Female
1844–1844 Male
1845–1895 Female
1848–1852 Male
1848– Female
1851–1922 Female
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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