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Grimketel Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Grimketel' (Yonge). A compound of Kettle, which see. compare Arkettle.

Grinchetyl. History and Antiquities of York.

Grimkettle. History of Norfolk.

Mathew Paris, under date 1047, says of the Bishopric of Selsey: 'Demncto Grinketel, Selesiensi pontifice, Hecca regis capellanus successit.

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Grimketel Surname Meaning

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This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Grimketel' (Yonge). A compound of Kettle, which see. compare Arkettle.

Grinchetyl. History and Antiquities of York.

Grimkettle. History of Norfolk.

Mathew Paris, under date 1047, says of the Bishopric of Selsey: 'Demncto Grinketel, Selesiensi pontifice, Hecca regis capellanus successit.'

In compounds Kettle usually became Kill and Kell. Hence the following entry:

Stephen Grimekil, 30 Edward I: Placita de Quo Warranto, temp. Edward I-III.

— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

An old Norse personal name, Grimketil, later Grimkel common in Iceland and Norway. A carucate held by Grimketel was given to the Abbey of Paisley between 1165 and 1173 (RMP., p. 5).

— The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)
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