Grine Family History
- Grine Name Meaning
- English: probably a variant of Grein, Grain, a topographic name for someone who lived by an inlet or at the fork of a river, Middle English greine, grayne. Altered spelling of German Grein. Possibly an Americanized form of Norwegian Grini, a common habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads in southeastern Norway named Grini, from Old Norse gronvin, a compound of gron ‘spruce’ + vin ‘meadow’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 18,464 Historical Documents with Grine on Ancestry
- 6,878 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,666 Census and Voter Lists
- 762 Military Records
- 586 Immigration Records
- 4,572 Member Trees
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Number of Grine families
 33 - 64  12 - 32 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Grine census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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