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What is the origin of "Glymph or Glimp"? German or Dutch?

What is the origin of "Glymph or Glimp"? German or Dutch?

Posted: 7 Nov 2001 3:22AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 4 Jul 2002 2:44AM GMT
My name is Zendre Glymph. My great-grandfather is Frank Glymph. I really don't know much about this side of my family.
All i know is that great-grand dad died in 1971 before i was born. Please answer this question for me or my father James Glymph.

Re: What is the origin of "Glymph or Glimp"? German or Dutch?

Posted: 18 Dec 2001 10:27PM GMT
Classification: Query
Zendre,
The origin of the Glymph surname is German. The line begins with Johann Abraham Glymph. There was a Johann Abraham Glymph in New York around 1750 to approximately 1765. After that, there is apparently record of a Johann Abraham Glymph in South Carolina. So we're not sure if this is the same person, or if they are two entirely different individuals.
You mention that your great-grandfather was Frank Glymph. What area was he from? The NY branch was originally from, obviously, New York; but some of that group lingered out into Minnesota, Michigan, and Tennessee
A lot of the SC branch stayed in Newberry, SC, with some moving to Florida and Texas.
Of course, by now, there are probably more Glymph's living elsewhere, but if you are tracing your Glymph roots, your ancestors probably came from one of the above mentioned places.
Hope this helped a little and hope to hear from you soon.

Audre

Re: What is the origin of "Glymph or Glimp"? German or Dutch?

Posted: 18 May 2015 3:33AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Glimp, Glymph, Glimpse
Hi Zendre,

My name is Jimmy Hill. My mother was Ann Glimp Hill of Burnet County, Texas. Back in the 1970's several of the women in the family got interested in genealogy. Among them were my aunts, Doris Glimp Lewis and Alice Glimp. They found the ship records for the Neptune that landed in Philadelphia in 1764. On board was Johann Abraham Glymph, who had sailed to Philly from Hamburg, Germany. Next to Johann's name was some Hebrew script. My mom took it to the Conservative Rabbi in Waco, TX. He translated it as "John, son of Sol, a scholar." It seems that John Abraham Glymph was a Jew. In fact, he was the son of a learned scholar who assisted rabbis. It seems J. A. Glymph had businesses in both New York and in South Carolina. He married a Dutch woman in New York and married an Irish woman in SC. He may have been a bigamist and could've been married to both women at the same time. He was also a patriot who fought on the American side in the Revolutionary War.

I, like all of the Texas Glimp clan, am descended from the SC Glymphs (the Irish). I've spoken to some people who believe the name Glymph is neither Dutch or German, but may be Polish or Ukrainian. Glemp is a family name in Poland and the western Ukraine.

Re: What is the origin of "Glymph or Glimp"? German or Dutch?

Posted: 18 May 2015 3:56AM GMT
Classification: Query
Audre,

The Texas Glimps are descended from J. A. Glymph via the Newberry, SC Glymph family. Sometime around 1800 to 1835 some of the Glymphs moved to the country around Memphis, TN. They set up a community there known as Glymph. My aunt, Doris Glimp Lewis, visited the town in the 1980s and found out that everyone there is African-American. She met several of the Black Glymphs and spoke with them for a bit.

Sometime around 1842 some of the Glymphs moved to the Victoria, Texas area. They built a stockade fort and changed the family name to Glimp. One of the Glimp sons (Thomas) married Ardelia Woods, the daughter of Norman Woods and grand-daughter of Zadock Woods. Zadock and Norman were some of the first 300 American settler families brought to Texas by Stephen F. Austin in the 1820's. Before the Great Depression most of the Texas Glimps were in Burnet and Lampasas Counties. After the Depression and the Dust Bowl the Glimps spread all over the state of Texas and across the country, mostly California.
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