175 Global GREENACRE Family Members

GREENACRE Family History

Greenacre is a topographical surname of Olde English pre 10th century origins. It probably developed from some now lost place called "Grene-acer" or similar in the Lancashire area. Although the name would seem quite simple to translate, the meaning was probably quite different in medieval times. The word "green" would almost certainly not have referred to colour, after all most fields are green, but to a new area of reclaimed land. Considerable time was spent draining the Lanacashire flatlands in the 14th and 15th centuries, and "green" would have described the finished product.