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GRIEP/GRIP/GRYP in the
USA
Americans with their roots in
Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands or Belgium>
[Nederlands] |
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 Around
the second half of the 19th century, great
numbers of Europeans emigrated,
from different European countries around
the North and Baltic Sea
to America. Among them were several persons with
names like Griep,
Grip, Grijp or Gryp,
coming mostly from Germany, the Netherlands,
Sweden and Belgium.
They settled in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, in upstate New York and in New Jersey.
From there, members of these families moved to
all parts of the USA. In
the nationwide telephone-directory there are now
297 people by the name of Griep, 79 Grip, 259
Gripp, 2 Grijp and 32 times Gryp.
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GRIEP
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 Griep
is the 72,395th most popular last name in the
United States. On this map the distribution (in
1990) of this name is shown*). A brighter color
means more Grieps.
Minnesota is the state with the highest
Griep-density. After that comes Iowa, Wisconsin
and Hawaii.
Here below the Grieps that came the the U.S.
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FROM POMERANIA
TO MINNESOTA, ILLINOIS, WISCONSIN AND IOWA |
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August
Griep was born in 1846 in Düsterbeck,
Kreis Naugard, Pomerania. His
parents were Ferdinand Griep and
Caroline Karnitz. They all came to the
United States in 1870-71 and settled in Le Sueur,
Minnesota.
This
Griep branch is researched by Linda Griep Ottmar
and Tom Griep.
Another
family who came from Pomerania was Gottlieb
Griep, born in 1814, and his wife
Caroline. They had three daughters, Henrietta
F. Griep (born March 22, 1846 and
married to Phillip Herman Griep), Johanna
Griep (born in October, 1852 at Stettin
and married to Phillip Wolf) and Caroline
Griep (born in Germany on August 20,
1856 and married to Otto Rotschka). The family
settled at Quincy, Adams County, Illinois (USA).
Two
other Griep-families came from Pomerania and
moved to Wisconsin: Carl August Wilhelm
Griep and his family, who settled around
Manitowoc and Herman Julius Griep
and his family who settled in Dodge county. Look for that at
page: Griep
in Wisconsin.
Ultimately, Stan V. Griep
from
Colorado let us know, that John Griep was the
first one from his blood lines that came from
Pomerania to
America. He settled in Iowa. Later on, members of
this family moved to Colorado.
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FROM THE
'EMSLAND' IN GERMANY TO MINNESOTA |
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About
1852 in Lastrup, in the German
Kindom of Hanover, Herman Griep was born.
He immigrated to the U.S. and settled in Long
Prairie, Minnesota. In 1878 he married Catherina
Lobbel. They had two sons: Henry and Joseph.
In 1879, Heinrich Griep (Henry, born June
5th, 1839, an older brother of Herman), his wife
Gertrude Rosa and their three children Bernart,
Anna en Heinrich, also came to the United States.
This family settled as a farmer in Bruce, Todd
County, Minnesota.
Look at page:
Griep in Minnesota. |
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FROM 'HOLSTEIN'
IN GERMANY TO NEW YORK STATE |
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Around 1880, Marx Griep,
his wife and their five children immigrated from
Großenaspe, some 20 miles north of Hamburg in
Germany, to Syracuse in upstate New York.
There he became the ancestor of an American Griep
family: Griep in New
York State. |
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FROM GERMANY TO
WISCONSIN |
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Herman
Griep, also from Germany, arrived around 1900
in the United States. He and his wife Wilhelmina
got nine children, and they settled in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. Two of these children, Emily and
George, later on moved to Arizona.
This branch is being researched
by Timothy McLaughlin
of Meansville, Georgia.
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FROM THE DUTCH
PROVINCE OF ZEELAND TO NEW JERSEY |
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Cornelis
Griep, born in 1839 in Yerseke, in the Dutch
province of Zeeland, migrated in 1896 with his
wife Jacoba Kopmels and their six children to the
U.S. They settled in Passaic, New Jersey.
His nephew Marinus Griep, born
in 1862 in Yerseke, came to America
in 1906 with his wife Anna Abrahamse and their
eight children. They settled in Lodi, Bergen
County, New Jersey, where five more children were
born.
Look for both families at: Griep in New Jersey. |
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FROM THE DUTCH
PROVINCE OF ZEELAND TO MICHIGAN |
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Nicolaas Griep,
born in 1884 at Yerseke (The
Netherlands) emigrated in 1910, with his wife
Catharine Katte, to Holland, Michigan, USA. They
had three daughters and a son, Adrian, born in
1915. This Adrian Griep and his
wife Minnie,  had a daughter
named Carolyn Mae.
Jan Griep was
born in 1861 at Waarde (The
Netherlands). In 1892, when he is already a
widower, he migrated together with
his daughter Anna Griep to the
USA. They settled in Holland, Michigan. John
Griep, as he called himself then, remarried and
had several more children, amongst them a son: Abraham
Griep.
Look for both families at: Griep in Michigan.
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GRIP /
GRIPP / GRIJP / GRYP
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 Because
there are to little of them, there is no map
available showing the names Grip, Grijp and Gryp.
This map only shows the distribution (in 1990) of
the name Gripp.
Most Gripps can be found in Iowa. Next one is
Wyoming.
A lot of them originally were named Grijp, but
they changed that name after arrival into Gripp,
which was easier to pronounce.
*) Both maps on this page are
copied from: http://hamrick.com/names/
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GRIJP FROM
BELGIUM BECAME GRIPP IN ILLINOIS |
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 In the
years around 1865, three brothers and a sister
are born in the Grijp family, living at Boekhoute
in Flanders: Henri,
Emma, Honore and Petrus. One of them, Petrus
Gryp, by that time married and father of two
children, decided in 1890 to emigrate with his
family to America. In this he was no exception:
the region had the highest percentage of
emigrants in Flanders.Petrus
and his family settled down in Annawan, a small
village in Illinois. There, he became the
ancestor of quite a numerous family: Gripp in Illinois.
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GRYP FROM
BELGIUM TO INDIANA |
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Louis and Marie Gryp lived at
Oosteeklo in Flanders and
raised there, as this picture from 1898 shows, a
big family. Both parents died shortly after each
other in 1905. Some of their children, Emiel
Gryp, Karel Gryp en Jules
Gryp, then emigrated to America. They
settled at South Bend, Indiana, a region where
already more Flemish people were living.
More about this family on page: Gryp in Indiana, USA. |
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