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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 334,342 Historical Documents with Grim on Ancestry
- 89,731 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 45,086 Census and Voter Lists
- 11,641 Military Records
- 3,085 Immigration Records
- 184,799 Member Trees
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Number of Grim families
 15 - 28  6 - 14 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Grim families
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2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Grim census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Grim census records
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