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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from either of two places in Lancashire, named Grimshaw, from the Old Norse personal name Grímr (see Grime) or Old English grīma ‘specter’, ‘goblin’ + Old English sceaga ‘copse’.

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