Grimm Family History
Grimm Name Meaning
nickname for a dour and forbidding
individual, from Old High German grim ‘stern’,
‘severe’.from a Germanic personal name from grima
‘mask’, ‘helmet’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Grimm
Name Distribution of Grimm Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Grimm families
 15 - 28  6 - 14 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Grimm families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Grimm census records
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Grimm Family Origin
Grimm Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Grimm Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Grimm
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