Individual Details
HEIT\HEITGEN GRIMM
(Abt 1500 - Abt 1555)
Hofman or Hofmaenner, leassee of the farm owned by the Keppel Convent at the village of Niederholzklau (Lower Holzklau) from at least 1532 to 1549. This farm had belonged to the convent since at least 1306 and was leased for periods of six years at a time. Both Ober (Upper) and Nieder Holzdlau were villages in the ancient parish of Holzklau, first mentioned in 1809. The name means "woods of the Klav" - Klav being an ancient name for a gully and also the name of the brook that ran through a ravine in the parish. The farm belonging to the Keppel Convent was always occupied by a member of the Grimm family.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1500 |  | |||
| Death | Abt 1555 | |
Families
| Child | Hein Keppel (1520 - 1580) |
| Child | JOHANN HOLZKLAU (1525 - 1578) |
| Child | Hans Grimm (1530 - ) |
| Father | HEIN GRIMM ( - ) |
Endnotes
1. B. C. Holtzclaw, "Remote Ancestry of the Holtzclaw Family at the Village of Niederholzklau, Parish of Holzklau, Nassau-Siegen, Germany" in the Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Volume 8, No. 4, October 1970., pp.73-82.
2. B. C. Holtzclaw, "Remote Ancestry of the Holtzclaw Family at the Village of Niederholzklau, Parish of Holzklau, Nassau-Siegen, Germany" in the Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Volume 8, No. 4, October 1970., pp.73-82.