Grove in my family tree
1: English: topographic name for someone who lived by a grove or thicket, Old English graf. 2: English (Huguenot): from the French surname Le Greux, Le Grou, Le Groux, which is of uncertain origin. 3: Low German: cognate of Grob, a nickname for a boorish individual, from German grob coarse, crude, Middle High German gerop, grop, Old High German gerob, grob.
Variants (of 1): Grover, Groves; Grave.
The surnames Grove and Groves are common mainly in the West Midlands. An Huguenot family who acquired the name Grove are descended from a certain Isaac Le Greux or Grou(x) or his brother. They fled from Tours in France in the late 17th century and settled in Spitalfields, London. Their children were known as Grou(x) or Grove; their grandchildren also used the form Grew; but their great-grandchildren, born at the end of the 18th century, were universally Grove.
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