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The groll Surname

groll Name Meaning and History

  1. North German: habitational name from Groll in Westphalia or Grollo in Drente, (from Dutch Gronlo ‘fen’).
  2. German: perhaps a nickname for an angry person from Middle High German groll ‘anger’, ‘wrath’.
  3. North German: nickname from Middle Low German krul ‘shock of hair’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of groll Families in the US in 1920
Number of groll families
 23-44
 8-22		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 34 - Messages: 135
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ATTENTION ALL GROLL AND GROLL DESCENDANTS Rich 21
all GROLL's @@ggroll@core.com 19
Teresa Groll 1892 Wilkerson99999 0
Groll - Brakel, West Phalia Germany - 1830-1855 KathyGroll 0
Groll - Brakel, West Phalia, Germany- 1790's KathyGroll 0
Groll families Barbara Nitka 0
looking for distant family Rich Todd 15
GROLL Narda Kathaleen Julg 2
Anton Groll Larry Taylor 5
Obituary of Anton Groll LarryTaylor632 1
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