When Raymond F Grunalt was born on 9 August 1914, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, his father, Joseph F Grunalt, was 26 and his mother, Mary Laskowski, was 23. He lived in Detroit Ward 9, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1920 and Detroit Ward 15, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940. He died on 13 October 1992, in Farmington Hills, Oakland, Michigan, United States, at the age of 78.
From an Old French name, Raimund, of Germanic origin, from ragin ‘advice, decision’ + mund ‘protector’. This was adopted by the Normans and introduced by them to Britain. Subsequently it dropped out of use, but was revived in the middle of the 19th century, together with several other given names of Old English and Norman origin.
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