James Greaves was born in 1824, in Poulton le Fylde, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. He married Elizabeth Hemmings on 10 June 1847, in Poulton le Fylde, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Thornton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Thornton, Lancashire, England in 1881.
English:
topographic name from Old English grǣfe ‘brushwood, thicket’, or a habitational name from any of the places called with this word. In Yorkshire the name comes from The Greaves in Beeley (Derbyshire), now known as Beeley Hilltop. In Lancashire the name may instead derive from a locality called Greaves in Preston.
alternatively, it may be a variant of Greve , with post-medieval excrescent -s, or of Graves or Grieves .
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