Brief Life History of Simon
When Simon Grimm was born in 1621, in Körborn, Kusel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, his father, Johann Paul Grimm, was 20 and his mother, Anna Margarete Mossli, was 12. He married Maria Eva Knapp about 1645, in Pfeffelbach, Sankt Wendel, Rhineland, Prussia. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 27 July 1684, in Kusel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, at the age of 63.
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- Simon Grimm, "Germany Deaths and Burials, 1582-1958"
- Simon Grimmen in entry for Johan Andreas Grimm, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
- Simon Grim in entry for Margretha Grim, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
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Name Meaning
German and Swiss German: nickname for a dour and forbidding individual, from Old High German grim ‘stern, severe’.
German and Swiss German: from an ancient Germanic personal name from grīma ‘mask, helmet’. This surname (in any of the possible senses; see also 1 above) is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
English: from Middle English grim ‘fierce, grim’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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