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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Cumbria) : habitational name from either of two villages in Cumbria, named in Old English with mūs ‘mouse’ (perhaps a byname) + grāf ‘grove’ (see Grove 1). The Norman surname de Mucegros, established in Herefordshire and elsewhere in the 12th and 13th centuries, is unrelated and has died out.

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