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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : probably a variant of Colgrave, which appears to be a topographic name from Middle English cole ‘coal’ + grave ‘pit’, ‘grave’ (Old English col + græf), or perhaps a habitational name from a lost place so named.
  • Probably an Americanized form of German Kohlgrube (see Colegrove).

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