Grimley Family History
- Grimley Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from a place in Worcestershire, probably so named from Old English grima ‘specter’, ‘goblin’ + Old English leah ‘woodland clearing’. Irish: variant of Gormley.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 85,899 Historical Documents with Grimley on Ancestry
- 28,970 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 18,763 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,247 Military Records
- 2,403 Immigration Records
- 33,516 Member Trees
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Number of Grimley families
 97 - 192  33 - 96 |
 1 - 32  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Grimley families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Grimley 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
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