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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : probably a variant of Colgrove.
  • Probably an Americanized form of German Kohlgrube, a habitational name from any of twelve places so named, probably from Middle High German kol ‘coal’ + gruobe ‘pit’, or an altered spelling of Kohlgraf, an occupational name for an overseer of the coal trade.

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