Grimshaw 2:
The Pendle Forest of the Grimshaw family! I had to do this second part, having found out the reason I knew a Grimshaw at Bradley school, in Nelson Lancashire, as well as a Grimshaw in Colne, which is all apart of Pendle and Lancashire! Incidentally the Quaker’s not quackery’s, or crackers, started in Pendle too, so it’s a small world.
This will be the most longest, I have wrote something on or for medium.
Most important Grimshaw lines, to originate from the Grimshaw family tree was the Pendle line. (I helped put up steps on Pendle hill in the 1980s) which was located at hey houses on Pendle hill, in the area on the east side of the hill. The or the forest Grimshaw line is junior to the earliest recorded Eccles hill and Clayton-Le-Moors line, Eccles cake = in Nelson, Pendle. Irish link via Liverpool. Mum dad lived on Clayton street Nelson lancs in 1960s.
Also been to new church, where the Pendle witches came from? ( or medicine women )
There is a shop there selling touristy stuff on witches. Grimshaw’s also in Fence. That’s where I used to go jogging. Thus I were always surrounded by Grimshaw’s or Grimshaw areas, Nicolas Grimshaw’s sixth generation descendants and builders of 40 cottages in Sebden. sebden is a sign I always so but never went there only around it or near it. May have been driven through it by someone else.
Grimsargh
Grimshaw appeared in Lancashire by 1000AD
Celtic Viking emerged simultaneously, with the location Grimsargh which is near Preston.
Grimshaw and Grimsargh maybe different ways of spelling it for Celtics and Vikings?
Names associated with sun worshiping Celts in the area west of Pendle hill ( I were Born in Nelson and always went to Pendle hill on trips with schools or others and by my self and even worked up there. Quaker’s pilgrimage is also Pendle hill)
Nelson is in the bourgh of Pendle. I’m proud of it.
Grimshaw associated with grimr adopted by the Norse God Odin to remain unrecognised, when he decended to earth to be among people.
The Celtic theory is articulated in a historical study of the Pendle hill area.
Grimshaw, Grimsargh, Grindleton
Were they associated locations where Celtic Druids worshipped the sun? The names were given to the Celtic locations by the Anglos and Saxons. Grim and grin are forms of the one root word ( so grim grin can be seen as smile not grim as in sad or dull it may be happy in one’s view ) Grimshaw not uncommon name around Pendle hill shaw signifies a wood or grove ( as in grove road or a road with trees or fields) becomes readily the wood grove!
The early Viking origin of Grimshaw surname, has a great deal of currency among Grimshaw resources, but is apparently an inferior theory? To the Celtic theory? I like both origins and Its fascinating to me, that it’s from the area, I were born in and lived in, played in, went to school college gym in, and grow up there, on the Grimshaw areas. Maybe not proven but all the hills and green areas are all grim.
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Viking natural world seem to show people close to nature who combine nature and superstitious veneration with a down to earth practical respect for the countryside. Pendle hill being the highest point in the area.
Viking place names grimr = God Odin disguised in a grim mask or Nick name of devil? ( not sure about this bit but it could have been a Viking myth believed to be true ?)
Grimshaw – grim wood – Grimthorpe – grimrs out laying farm, thus nature country side countryside.
Think this research will never stop, but I must stop here. To conclude I like both origins, Celtic’s and Viking’s combined. That’s why I say when the Viking came they call land grim and the shore as in seashore grim land and shaw or green land and sea? And the word copse not a dead body but lots of shrubs and plants surrounding trees, but I can’t seem to spell the other copse. Spill cheque won’t let me .
Grim = is Green Land
Shaw = sea
+ all together Grimshaw
I would also like to thank a colleague of mine and now also a friend, for helping me in this research. As I found out her sir name or family name Grimshaw. it set me on a quest to find out more, than what I just know. Tessa Grimshaw, send me a link via email that helped me to learn more. I would like to acknowledge her greatness and kindness, she has an enthusiasm, for the origin of names places as well as me and I’m so happy to have met her as this would not have been possible without her knowledge about her family name. Thanks Tessa your great 👍 wonder what we will discuss next time we meet.
02/09/2023
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I were grimly smiling at the grim land sea
I were grimly smiling at the Grimshaw land and sea.
I were grim up north but not in a sad way as I were grinning 😀 in the Grimshaw lands and sea.
I were grinning grimly in the green Grimshaws lands and seas.
To me Grimshaw, now means green.
Thanks to all the conversations with Tessa Grimshaw. Maybe I should just call her Tess Green.
Now I’m thinking of Earnshaw. Next !
