Grubb family

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The Grubb Family was an important and wealthy family of the Shire-hobbits. At least some of the family were involved in auctioneering, a fact we can deduce from the name of the company set to sell Bilbo Baggins's belongings: Grubb, Grubb and Burrowes.[1] In fact, Bilbo had a slight connection with the family: his paternal grandmother was Laura Grubb. She married Mungo Baggins, and together they produced five children, of whom the eldest was Bungo Baggins, Bilbo's father.[2]

Etymology

The name is meant to recall the English verb grub "dig, root, in the ground".[3]

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