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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a minor place in the parish of Rochdale, Lancashire, so named from Old English grēne ‘green’ + rod ‘clearing’ (see Rhodes).
  • This name is first recorded in Rochdale in 1541 in the spelling Greneroade.

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