GRIP at Glostorp and Maglarp
Two Swedish Grip-families from the coastal area between Malmö and Trelleborg

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The Grip family at Maglarp -- more to the south near the coast -- has Niels Göransson Grip as the ancestor. He was born in 1797. Several Grip's from Maglarp were sailors and some of them settled in the Netherlands and the USA.

It is not yet known whether both families are also related to each other.

Anders Christophersson was born September 26, 1778 at Skabersjö, a village some 10 miles east of Malmö. He was the son of Christoffer Akesson and Karna Jönssonsdotter. On July 30, 1805 he became a soldier for the village of Glostorp and was granted the soldier name of Anders Grip. From 1805 till 1807 he took part in the war against Germany. Then he married and had a son. From 1813 till 1814 he was engaged in the Napoleontic war. After that he had seven more children, living at Glostorp. On July 12, 1835, he left the military and in 1843 he died at Glostorp.
His children were:

• Hans Roswall Grip Andersson, born in 1809. He died at Glostorp in 1842.
• Bengta Andersdotter Grip, born in 1815.
• Christoffer Wassner Grip Andersson, born in 1818.
• Anders Grip Andersson, born in 1820.
• Ola Ewald Grip Andersson, born in 1823. He died at Lund in 1874.
• Karna Andersdotter Grip, born in 1825.
• Nils Grip Andersson, born in 1828. He died at Malmö in 1889. His son is: Hans Nilsson Grip, born at Glostorp in 1859.
• Per Grip Andersson, is known to have lived at Glostorp from 1843 to 1858.

On January 26, 1797, Niels Göransson was born at Maglarp. He was the son of the fisherman Jöran Rasmusson en Ingar Nilsdotter. Niels went into the army, as a cavalerist and a dragoon, where his name became Niels Göransson Grip. He married in 1820 at Maglarp to the piga Hanna Larsdotter of Hököpinge. They lived at Maglarp and had seven children. On December 3, 1846, he died there and in 1866 his widow died. This couple had the following children:

• Pher Nilsson Grip, born on November 7, 1821, at Maglarp. He married Hanna  Mårtensdotter from Räng and had, living at Maglarp, seven children. He died on July 30, 1884, at Maglarp.

• Lovisa, born in 1824. She married Anders Månsson Fritz.

• Ingar, born in 1828.

• The twin Lars and Johan (Jöran) Nilsson Grip, born in 1830, died in the same year.
• Anna, born in 1833. She died at the age of 13.
• Lars Nielson Grip, born at Trelleborg in 1836. He was a sailor and married in July 1869 at the Dutch island of Vlieland to Aafje Bruyn.

THE DESCENDANTS OF PHER NILSSON GRIP OF MAGLARP

• Anna was born on September 23, 1852, at Maglarp. She married the saddlemaker Lars August Clementsson from Trelleborg. Her husband died in 1943 and Anna, 97 years of age, in 1949.
• Nils Magnus Persson Grip was born at Maglarp on November 17, 1854 and earned his living as a fisherman. He married Johanna Elisa Persdotter from Gustav, lived at Maglarp and had two children: Hilda Grip (1879; married Jöns Olsson and had four children; died in 1958 at Trelleborg) and Karolina Grip (1882; died in 1968 at Trelleborg).
• Johanna was born in 1857 and died within a year.
• Johanna Persson Grip was born on June 4, 1859, at Maglarp. She married Lars Petter Andersson from Trelleborg and had nine children: Mathilda (1884), Andrea (1887), Hilding (1889), Elvira (1892), Emilia (1894), Edgar (1896), Osvald (1898), Dagmar (1901) and Hildur (1904). Johanna and Lars both died in 1948, at Hemmesdynge.
• Mathilda was born in 1861 and died at the age of eight.
• Anders Olof Persson Grip was born on December 21, 1863, at Maglarp. He married Elna Andersson from Tygelsjö and had, living at Trelleborg, three children: Albin Grip (1893; married Ida Lovisa and had four children; died in 1975 at Stora Hammar), Hilbert Grip (1896; married Emma Altea and had three children; died in 1987 at Stora Hammar) and Elin Grip (1901; married Gunnar Emanuel Persson; died in 1990 at Ockelbo).
• Pehr Persson Grip was born on December 23, 1865. He was sailorman.

Most of this information was provided by Bengt Nilsson (bengt@datafant.se)
of Staffanstorp, Sweden, a grandson of Johanna Persson Grip.

Seaman Lars Nielson Grip and Aafje Bruyn, married in 1869 at Vlieland, had three children: Nicolaas Johannes Grip (born in 1870 at Vlieland), Alke and George (1882).

Their oldest son Nicolaas Johannes (picture at right) had his residence at Rotterdam, married to Grietje Roggeveen and had seven children:

• Adriana Maria Grip (Marie), born in 1897 at Rotterdam and died in 1964.
• Niels Larson Grip, born in 1898.
• Cornelis Grip, born in 1900, married in 1933 to Anna Alida Boere and died in 1940 from tuberculosis.
• George Grip, born in 1901 at Rotterdam, married Kaatje van der Burght, had two children and died in 19741 at Salt Lake City, USA.
• Aafje Grip, born in 1902 at Rotterdam, died after three months.
• Dirk Grip, born in 1904 at Rotterdam, had two children and died in 1962 at Rotterdam.
• Nicolaas J. Grip.

This information and the picture were provided by Nicholas C. van der Does
from Lake Winnebago, Missouri, USA. He is a son of Cornelis Grip and is researching this family.

The youngest son of the couple Grip-Bruyn from Vlieland was George Grip, born in 1882 at Rotterdam. He had eight children. Among them was Lars Nielson Grip, born in 1906 and a seaman just like his father and grandfather.

Gerda Grip from Rotterdam, a granddaughter of Lars Nielson Grip, likes to hear more
about her Swedish ancestors. Her addres: Hijkerveld 52, 3085 Rotterdam, tel: 06-21424391.

Both villages, Glostorp and Maglarp, are situated in the southwest of Skåne, the southernmost province of Sweden. For many centuries this region has been a part of Denmark, but the treaty of Roskilde in 1658 made it a part of Sweden.

The area of Skåne is 2.6% of that of Sweden, but it is inhabited by almost 14% of its population. So, relatively speaking, it is rather densily populated.

The coat of arms of the province of Skåne showes a 'krönt griphuvud', or a griffin's head with a crown. 'Grip' is the Swedish word for griffin.

The coat of arms is granted to Malmö in 1438, and later on to the whole province, by the Danish King Erik from Pomerania. It won't be coincidental that Pomerania also has a griffin ('Greif'), although completely shown, on its coat of arms.

Do you have more information about these Grip's from Skåne, or are you a descendant
of them yourself? Please send an email to jan.griep@planet.nl.

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on March 26, 2007 by ©Jan Griep te Katwijk aan Zee.