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GRAINGER Family History

This most interesting surname, found in England and France, is an occupational name for a farm bailiff, responsible for overseeing the collection of the rent in kind into the barns and storehouses of the lord of the manor, one in charge of a grange. This official had the Anglo-Norman French title "grainger", from the Old French "grangier", from the Late Latin "granicarius", a derivative of "granica", granary. The name is also found in England as Grainger, and in France as Grangier and Grancher. The surname was introduced into England by the Normans after the Conquest of 1066, and first appears in records in the early 12th Century (see below), while other early examples of the surname include: Reginald le Granger, mentioned in the Feet of Fines of Suffolk in 1219; Walter le Graunger, recorded in the Assize Court Rolls of Bedfordshire in 1247; and John Grainger, listed circa 1422 in Worcestershire Records...