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The Origin of the Grimes Name
Fact or Fiction
I have seen several entries on the net where people have asked about the origin of the name Grimes.
Here is one that I heard along time ago--when I was a little girl. There is little available proof of it, but some can be found in Ancient History and the Break-up of The Roman Empire.
The story goes that following the breakup of the Empire, all of Europe was divided into eight kingdoms under the rule of the Grimaldi Family. (Now the descendents of the Grimaldi Family only rule the small Kingdom of Monaco. ) The British Islands were included with the territory of what is now France and part of Germany.
The name of Grimaldi began to be pronounced differently in the different areas of the world.
Also several smaller kingdoms sprang up inside the larger ones; each with their own chieftain or"King".
These chieftains were under one main King whom they had to answer to.
One of these chieftains was a Welchman by the name of Uther Pendragon who was the father of the semi-legendary King Arthur.
.(Encyclopedias now prove he really existed, though most of legend is disputed).
Arthur married Guinevere, daughter of King Leonidis de Gramce (which is thought to be a variation of the name Grimaldi and Grimes).
This was in the early 6th century. Grimes and other variations of this name in the British Isles were thought to have originated from the Grimaldi name.
Another legend and a more popular one about the Grimes name in England is that we were descended from Sir John the Grim, who lived there around 1035.
I was told that The Grim was changed to differentiate amoung the sons, (as Scotland and Ireland added Mac before the name for the sons) In England, the oldest son would have used the Grim, as same as the father. The second son would ad a letter, the third son would add two letters, and so forth.
So the name Grimes would have descended from the third son of Sir John the Grim.
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Family Tree
I started out calmly tracing my tree,
to find if I could, the making of me,
and all that I had was a grandfather's name,
not knowing his wife or from whence he came.
I chased him across a long line of states
and came up with pages and pages of dates.
When all put together, it made me forlorn,
I proved that poor grandpa had never been born.
One day I was sure the truth I had found.
Determined to turn this whole thing around;
I looked up the record of one uncle Jim,
but then found the old man was younger than him.
Then when I felt at the end of the line
I came across records that must have been mine.
The facts I collected made me quite sad.
Dear old grandfather was never a dad.
I think maybe someone is pulling my leg.
I'm not at all sure I wasn't hatched from an egg.
After hundreds of dollars I've spent on my tree
I can't help wonder if I'm really me.
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