Colegrove (surname)

Colegrove is a surname, or family name, that developed in England between the 12th and 15th centuries. The name may have originated from a grove along the River Cole, Wiltshire, a Tributary of the River Thames in England. Another explanation as to the origin of the name is from the Middle English cole ‘coal’ + grave ‘pit’, ‘grave’ (Old English col + græf). Other forms of spelling in the past include ‘Colgrove’, ‘Colegrave”, ‘Colgrave’, ‘Coulgrove’. The first records of the Colegrove name were in 15th Century England and in the American colonies, in the 1680’s. There was a town founded in the 1800’s as a Rail Road Depot, Colegrove, PA, in McKean County named after Colegrove founders. The family name is found throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, and other nations around the world.