When Johann Christian Griebel was born about 1720, in Watzenborn, Gießen, Hesse, Germany, his father, Johann Georg Griebel, was 41 and his mother, Anna Cath. Schaefer, was 30. He married Anna Maria Dern on 25 November 1751, in Watzenborn, Gießen, Hesse, Germany. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 6 January 1794, in his hometown, at the age of 75.
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South German: variant of Grübel (see Grable ).
South German: topographic name for someone living in a hollow, from a diminutive of Middle High German gruobe ‘hollow’.
North German: habitational name from a place so named in Holstein.
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