When Magdalena Margretha Grimm was born on 19 January 1684, in Kusel, Kusel, Bavaria, Germany, her father, Johann Jacob Grimm Sr., was 36 and her mother, Anna Catharina Heinrich, was 29. She married Johann Jacob Fischer on 5 October 1706, in Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She died on 28 April 1768, in Kusel, Kusel, Bavaria, Germany, at the age of 84.
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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’.
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