When Franciscus GRAUWELS was born on 30 September 1889, his father, Petrus Ludovicus Grauwels, was 31 and his mother, Theresia Peeters, was 22. He married Melania Theresia VERBEECK on 21 October 1911. He died on 10 April 1981, in Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, at the age of 91.
Altered form of German Franziskus, which is derived from the Latin personal name Franciscus (see Francis ). Compare Francisco .
South African: from the Latin personal name Franciscus (see Francis ). This surname is rare in South Africa.
History: The progenitor of many of the Americans with the surname Franciscus was Ludwig Christophel Franciscus (also Frantziscus), a German from the Palatinate, who arrived in PA in 1710. Some of his descendants changed the surname to Francisco or to different shortened forms.
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