Grindle Family History
Grindle Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English grene
‘green’ + dale ‘dale’, ‘valley’ or hille, hull
‘hill’; alternatively, the surname may have arisen from either of two
habitational names meaning ‘green valley’: Greendale in Devon or
Grindale in East Yorkshire, or from Grindal (‘green hill’) in
Shropshire.South German: from Middle High German
grindel ‘latch’, ‘beam’, ‘pole’, probably a metonymic
occupational name for a doorman.Respelling of North German
Grindel.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Grindle Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Grindle families
 50 - 97  17 - 49 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Grindle families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Grindle Family Origin
Grindle Emigration Information (US)
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Grindle Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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