For most of my life I thought that Grealis was an unusual surname
found mostly in the West of Ireland in County Mayo. My great grandfather,
Patrick Grealis,was one of five brothers and I recently began to input
into a database the descendants of those five brothers. I have since come
across many Grealis names on the Internet,in Ohio, New Jersey, Massachusetts,
West Virginia and Ontario, Canada. Further research turned up a John Grealis,
who enlisted in the Union Army from Nevada in 1860 and a Patrick Grealis
found in the 1860 census of Albany, NY. This page is an attempt to bring
all those diverse families together.