Last names linked to GRAVE Back

Origin

HARGRAVE : Saxon. The provider or commissary of an army, from Here or Har, an army, and grave, a steward or disposer.

LIGHTBODY : A writer, somewhere, derives this name from Licht, a dead body, a tomb, and Bodee, contracted from Boadicea, meaning the tomb or grave of this British Queen; a locality. The name, however, is more likely to have originated from bodily peculiarity.

MUSGRAVE : King's falconer, from Meus, Sax., the place where the hawks were kept, and grave, keeper.

TORRY : Local. Torr, Gaelic, a conical hill or mountain, a mound, a grave, a tower; piled up, formed into heaps; to heap up, to bury.

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