GREIG Name Meaning and History
Scottish: from a short form of the personal name Gregory.
Gregory Name Meaning and History
English: from a personal name that was popular throughout Christendom in
the Middle Ages. The Greek original, Gregorios, is a derivative of
gregorein ‘to be awake’, ‘to be watchful’. However, the Latin form,
Gregorius, came to be associated by folk etymology with grex, gregis,
‘flock’, ‘herd’, under the influence of the Christian image of the good
shepherd.
The Greek name was borne in the early Christian centuries by two fathers
of the Orthodox Church, St. Gregory Nazianzene (c. 325–390) and St.
Gregory of Nyssa (c. 331–395), and later by sixteen popes, starting with
Gregory the Great (c. 540–604).
It was also the name of 3rd- and 4th-century apostles of Armenia. In
North America the English form of the name has absorbed many cognates
from other European languages. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN
0-19-508137-4
Distribution of greig Families in England and Wales in 1891 census
http://www.ancestry.com/facts/greig-family-history-uk.ashx
Top Places of Origin for GREIG
Place of Origin greig Immigrants
Scotland 124
England 42
Great Britain 19
Ireland 16
Germany 9
Holland 5
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the New York Passenger Lists.
Top Places of Origin for GRIEG
Place of
Origin grieg Immigrants
Scotland 6
Romania 1
Ireland 1
France 1
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the New York Passenger Lists.
op Places of Origin for GREEG
Place of Origin greeg Immigrants
Scotland 1
just another spelling variation
the spelling of family names varies all the time
" 'i' before 'e' except after 'c'" is the old spelling 'rule' we were
taught at school in the 1940ies but there are many exceptions
so someone misapplied it years ago
GREGorIus also suggest the 'I'should be second
experiencedgenealogistst knowspelling i irrelevant
IN UK english spelling is etymological and customary
no reformed / retskrivning / academy system has been successful
GREGERS is a current surname or nickname for GREGORI
Hugh W
Anne Hildrum wrote:
> According to to Wikipedia, Alan seems to be partly right:
>
> Edvard Grieg ble født i Bergen som oldebarn av skotten Alexander Greig
som hadde slått seg ned som handelsmann der på midten av
> 1700-tallet og fornorsket navnet til Grieg
>
> Edvard Grieg was born in Bergen as great grandchild of the Scottish
Alexander Greig who settled
> as a merchant there in the middle of 1700 and changed his name to Grieg.
>
> Anne
>
> "Alan Smaill" <smaill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> skrev i melding
news:fwe4p9dnnpg.fsf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Jan <address@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>
>>> Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:30:55 GMT, Bob Jones <bobj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>;
>>> <z_zQj.5133$ko5.597@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>;
>>> <soc.genealogy.nordic>:
>>>
>>>> Magnus.Moraberg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>>>>> I'm listening to this Norwegian band at the moment and their accents
>>>>> remind me of a Scottish or Ulster English accent. Or perhaps even
>>>>> Welsh or Gaelic. What do you think?
>>> (snip)
>>>> Very likely, a lot of Scots migrated to Norway e.g. Edvard Greig's
family.
>>> If that is an assumption based on the way the name is written, it
>>> could be of im****tance to know that it's written wrongly.
>>> The composer's family name is Grieg, not Greig.
>> The composer's father spelt it "Greig", I believe.
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