Grim Family History
Grim Name Meaning
Dutch: nickname for a dour and forbidding person, from Middle
Dutch grim, grem ‘stern’, ‘severe’.English:
nickname with the same meaning as 1, from Old English grim
‘fierce’, ‘grim’.Respelling of German Grimm.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Grim
Name Distribution of Grim Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Grim families
 185 - 368  62 - 184 |
 1 - 61  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Grim families
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15 - 28 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Grim families
|
4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Grim census records
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Grim Family Origin
Grim Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Grim
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions.
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Grim Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Grim census records
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Grim Civil War Service Records
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