Tour Scotland travel photograph of the John Grieve memorial stained glass window in the church in Auchtertool, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Fife. Recorded in several spellings including: Greave, Greeve, Grieve, Greaves, Greeves, and Greves, this is an English surname. It is either locational from the former hamlet of Greaves in the parish of Preston, Lancashire, England, or it is topographical from residence by a thicket or grove of trees. The word and hence the surname, derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century " graefe " meaning brushwood, and is first recorded at the beginning of the 13th Century.
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