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"Grieve" Webster's 1913 Dictionary Definition: Grieve (gr[=e]v), Greeve \Greeve\, n. [AS. ger[=e]fa. Cf. {Reeve} an officer.] A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.] "Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve." --Sir W. Scott. The Grieve Family Written and Researched by Margaret Sypniewska, herbu Odrowaz Bachelor of Fine Arts and member of the Polish Nobility Association The name Grieve came from the Middle English word, greve, meaning "steward" or "manager." A grieve was a minor official appointed by the lord of the manor to supervise his tenant's work; a descendant of Greifi (count or earl). A grieve was cognate with Graf (the German term for count)(Smith, Elsdon C. New Dictionary of American Family Names. New York: Gramercy Publishing Company, 1988). A Grieve was an overseer of a farmer, bailiff, or under steward. A Johan Greve lived in Haytone, Berwickshire, in 1296 (Ragman Roll of 1296). Johannes Grefe was in the parish of Fyvy (Fyvie), Aberdeenshire, Scotland and was excommunicated in 1382. Grieston Tower, in Traquair is named after a family of Grieves, who lived there in the 1400's. John Grieve was a minor "Border Poet," and another, John Grieve was provost of Edinburgh (1782-1783), and was publicy horse-whipped by some toughs because he had placed some of their lady friends (of easy virtue) in the pillary (Black, George F. The Surnames of Scotland: Their Origin, Meaning, and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1999). David Dorward confirms that Grieston Tower, (in Traquair) was named after the Grieve family who lived there in the 1400's. His book: Scottish Surnames published in New York by Harper Collins Publishers (1995).