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Early Origins of the Grall family

The surname Grall was first found in Dauphiny (French: Dauphiné or Dauphiné Viennois), a former province in southeastern France, where the family has been a prominent family for centuries, and held a family seat with lands and manor. The family were well established in the region of the Rhone and several members of the family distinguished themselves through their contributions toward the community in which they lived and were rewarded with lands, titles and letters patent confirming their nobility. they also branched into Bohemia in Germany at Mildensee. Here they became ennobled in 1836.

Early History of the Grall family

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Grall Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Grollier, Grolier, Gralliers, Groliers, Groller and others.

Early Notables of the Grall family

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Grall Ranking

In France, the name Grall is the 1,278th most popular surname with an estimated 4,418 people with that name. 1


United States Grall migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Grall Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Philip Grall, who landed in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1860 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Grall (post 1700) +

  • William F. Grall, American Democratic Party politician, Mayor of Lorain, Ohio, 1920-24, 1926-28 ; Candidate in primary for Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, 1926 3


  1. http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  3. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2016, February 2) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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