Descendants of Edouard Gruchy

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Descendants of Edouard Gruchy



A transcript by Guy Dixon of a section of Walter J. Le Quesne`s Gruchy research, brought down to, in some branches, the 20th century

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  • 1 Edouard Gruchy (1530-1573) (St J) m Unknown
    • 2 Jean Gruchy (1555-1615) (St J) [1] m (c1580) Marguerite Gibaut ( -1603) (St J)
      • 3 Edouard Gruchy (1580-1616) (St J) [2] m Jeanne Le Maistre
        • 4 Jean Gruchy (1606-1652) (St J) m (1633, St J) Marie Le Breton
          • 5 Marguerite Gruchy (1635-1652) (St J)
        • 4 Pierre Gruchy (1610-1669) (St J) m Marie Unknown
          • 5 Pierre Gruchy ( -1678) (St J) m 2 (1675, St J) Jeanne Christin; 1 (1663, St J) Elizabeth Hamon
            • 6 Edouard Gruchy (1664-1740) (St J) m (1692, St J) Esther Cabot
              • 7 Anne Gruchy (1697-1717) (St J)
              • 7 Elizabeth Gruchy ( -1718) (St J)
            • 6 Jeanne Gruchy (1666- ) (St J)
            • 6 Elizabeth Gruchy (1670-1671) (St J)
        • 4 Mabel Gruchy (1613-1646) (St J) m (1645, St J) Jean Hamon
      • 3 Pierre Gruchy ( -1641) (St J) m Marie Morel
        • 4 Jean Gruchy (1604-1669) (St J) m 1 (1637, St Mt) Rachel Malzard
          • 5 Marie Gruchy (1637-1651) (St J)
        • by the 2nd marriage of Jean Gruchy (1642, St J) Marie Le Cornu
          • 5 Jean Gruchy (1646-1675) (St J)
          • 5 Marie Gruchy (1653- ) (St J) [3] m (1669, St J) Philippe Luce (St L)
        • 4 Marguerite Gruchy (1606-1633) (St J)
        • 4 Colette Gruchy (1609- ) (St J) (1635, St J) Edouard Vaudin
        • 4 Marie Gruchy (1611- ) (St J)
        • 4 Pierre Gruchy (1616-1666) (St J) m (1645, Tr) Jeanne
          • 5 Pierre Gruchy (1646-1715) (St J) m (1670, St J) Sara Hamon (liv 1720)
            • 6 Jeanne Gruchy (1671- ) (St J)
            • 6 Jean Gruchy (1675-by 1726) (St J) no issue
            • 6 Sara Gruchy (1677- ) (St J)
            • 6 Pierre Gruchy (1680?- ) (St J) [4] m Elizabeth Rose
              • 7 Elizabeth Gruchy (1718-1807) (St J) m (1753, St C) Thomas Gruchy
              • 7 Pierre Gruchy (1720-1802) (St J) [5] m (1748, St J) Marie Nicolle
                • 8 Marie Gruchy, liv. 1802 [6] m (1711, St J) Philippe Bisson (Tr)
                • 8 Jeanne Gruchy (1751-1817) m (1774, St J) Jean Bisson (St J)
                • 8 Jean Gruchy (1753-1778) (St J) [7]
                • 8 Pierre Gruchy (1755-1835) (St J) [8] m (1779, St S) Rachel Hamon
                  • 9 Pierre Gruchy (1780-1822) (St J) [9] m 1 (1800, St J) Marie Aubert ( -1809) [10]
                    • 10 Pierre Gruchy (1801- ) (St J) [11] m Marie de Gruchy (1804- ) daughter of Philippe (Hautmont), son of Philippe and Rachel Messervy (St J)
                      • 11 Peter Francois Gruchy (1825- ) (St J)
                      • 11 Jean Gruchy (1829- ) (St J) [12] m (1853, St J) Mary Ann Gruchy, daughter of Philippe (St J)
                        • 12 Walter John Gruchy (1854-1909) (St J) m (1895, St O) Julia Arthur Bauche, daughter of Daniel (St O)
                          • 13 Elsie Bauche Gruchy (1896- ) (St J) m (1919, St H) William Edward Le Vavasseur dit Durell, [13] son of William Dupre Le Vavasseur dit Durell (St H)
                        • 12 Winter Philip Gruchy (1860-1917) (St J) [14] m 1 Unknown; 2 (1910, St H) Evelyn Julia Le Huquet, daughter of Philippe [15] (St Mt)
                        • 12 Louisa Messervy Gruchy (1863-1937) (St J)
                      • 11 Philippe Gruchy (1833- ) (St J)
                      • 11 David John Gruchy (1836- ) (St J)
                      • 11 Marie Anne Gruchy (1841-1842) (St J)
                    • 10 Jean Gruchy (1803-1837) (St J) m (1827, St J) Marie Rachel Renouf
                    • 10 Marie Anne Gruchy (1804- ) (St J) m (1828, Tr) Philippe Renouf
                    • 10 Philippe Gruchy (1807-1810) (St J)
                  • by the 2nd marriage of Pierre Gruchy m (after 1809) Elizabeth Poingdestre
                    • 10 Anne Gruchy (1809- ) (St J) m Josue Renouf
                    • 10 Philippe Gruchy (1811-1849) (St J) [16] m (1839, St H) Julia Marett, daughter of Elie (St H)
                      • 11 Julia Gruchy (1840- ) (St H) m (1865, St S) Adolphus Le Couteur, [17] son of Edward (St H)
                      • 11 Caroline Gruchy (1841-by 1843) (St H)
                      • 11 Caroline Gruchy (1843- ) (St H) [18] m (1869, St H) John de Faye, [19] son of Thomas [20] (St H)
                    • 10 Elizabeth Gruchy (1813- ) (St J)
                  • 9 Rachel Gruchy (1782-1812) (St J) m (1802, St J) Abraham Marett [21]
                  • 9 Jean Gruchy (1784- ) (St J)
                  • 9 Francois Gruchy (1787- ) (St J)
                  • 9 Francois Gruchy (1788-1826) (St J)
                  • 9 Philippe Gruchy (1790- ) (St J) [22] m (1813, St J) Elizabeth Pinel
                    • 10 Elizabeth Gruchy (1813-1813) (St J)
                    • 10 Elizabeth Gruchy (1814- ) (St J)
                    • 10 Rachel Gruchy (1816- ) (St J) m (1840, Tr) Philippe Nicolle [23]
                    • 10 Philippe Gruchy (1818- ) (St J) [24] m (1850, St B) Susanne Le Rossignol, daughter of Joseph [25] (St H)
                      • 11 Philippe Joseph Gruchy (1851- ) (St J) [26]
                      • 11 Susan Elizabeth Gruchy (1853- ) (St J) m (1881, St J) Francis Laffoley [27] son of George (St H)
                      • 11 Harriet Susanna Gruchy (1855- ) (St J) m (1879, St J) Thomas Philip Mourant [28] son of Thomas [29]
                    • 10 David de Gruchy (1821-1904) (St J > Can.) [30] m 1 Jane Catherine Robertson Jean (1818-1887); 2 (1889) Mary Marshall
                      • 11 Louisa Elizabeth Gruchy (1846-1846) (NS)
                      • 11 Henrietta Maria Gruchy (1847-1914)(NS) m Henry James Fixott (Jer) [31]
                      • 11 William Willis Gruchy (1847-1859) (NS)
                      • 11 John Philip Gruchy (1848- ) (NS) [32] m (1872, Arichat) Henrietta Helen Weeks (1851-1917) (NS > BC)
                        • 12 Henry Gruchy (1873-1873) (NS)
                        • 12 John Philip Gruchy (1874-1874) (NS)
                        • 12 Frederick Lever Gruchy (1874-1957) (NS > BC) [33]
                        • 12 Louis John Gruchy (1874- ) (NS > BC) Twin [34]
                        • 12 David William Gruchy (1876-1969) (NS > BC) m Sadie Ann Sampson (Petit de Gras)
                          • 13 Allan Garfield Gruchy (1906-1990) (Vancouver) [35] m Florence Schumacher (1 son, 1 daughter)
                          • 13 Three other sons
                        • 12 Annie Gertrude Gruchy (1878- ) (NS) liv. 1901
                        • 12 Jane Brine Gruchy (8/1886-1917) (NS)
                        • 12 Edward A. Gruchy (8/1886-1913) (NS) Twin
                        • 12 Roy Patterson Gruchy (1887-1962) (NS) [36]
                        • 12 Mary Jane Gruchy (1890-1986) (NS)
                      • 11 Daughter Gruchy (NS > Vancouver)
                      • 11 Peter William Gruchy (1851-1911) (NS) [37] m Eliza Lucy Ward (1854-1921) (NS), daughter of James Putnam Ward and Martha
                        • 12 Gordon Gruchy (1876- ) (NS) [38]
                        • 12 Nellie Gruchy (1878- )(NS)
                        • 12 Charles Philip Gruchy (1880-1921) (NS) [39]
                        • 12 Violet Beatrice Gruchy (1885- ) (NS) m Grant
                      • 11 Philip Isaac Gruchy (1856-1934) (NS) [40] m Edith Maude Reynolds Smith (1859-1937) (NS), daughter of John Reynolds Smith and Harriet Elizabeth
                        • 12 Lilian Gruchy (1883- ) (NS) liv. 1901
                        • 12 Frances Gruchy (1886- ) (NS) liv. 1901
                      • 11 David Gruchy (1862- ) (NS) [41] m Eva M. Binet (NS)
                        • 12 Irene Gruchy (1889- ) (NS) m George Rice (Sydney, NS) [42]
                        • 12 Reginald Ansell Gruchy (1892- ) (NS) [43]
                        • 12 Harold Binet Gruchy (1895-1964) (NS) [44] m Hazel Florence Unknown
                          • 13 Isobel Gruchy (1924- ) (NS)
                    • 10 Nancy Gruchy (1823- ) (St J)
                    • 10 Mary Ann Gruchy (1826- ) (St J) [45]
                    • 10 Sophie Gruchy (1828- ) (St J)
                    • 10 Henriette Marie Gruchy (1832- ) (St J) [46]
                    • 10 Peter Gruchy (1834-1913) (St J > NS.) [47] m Sophia Christina Maclean (Sc) [48]
                    • 10 Julia Gruchy (1838- ) (St J) m (1862, Tr) Philippe Deslandes, [49] son of Philippe (Tr)
                  • 9 Charles Gruchy (1793-1810 (St J) [50]
                  • 9 David de Gruchy (1799- ) (St J)
                • 8 Elizabeth Gruchy (1758- ) (St J) m Nicolas Cabot
                • 8 Rachel Gruchy (1760- ) (St J)
              • 7 Sara Gruchy (1724- ) (St J) liv. 1767
            • 6 Rachel Gruchy (1682-1719) (St J) m Jean Blampied
            • 6 Nicolas Gruchy (1685- ) (St J) liv. 1726
            • 6 Marguerite Gruchy (1688- ) (St J)
            • 6 Marthe Gruchy (1692-1774) (St J)
          • 5 Marguerite Gruchy (1647- ) (St J)
          • 5 Marie Gruchy (1649- ) (St J)
          • 5 Marie Gruchy (1652- ) (St J)
          • 5 Jeanne Gruchy (1654- ) (St J)
          • 5 Elizabeth Gruchy (1656- ) (St J)
          • 5 Sara Gruchy ( -1658) (St J)
      • 3 Andre Gruchy ( -1641) (St J)
      • 3 Sara Gruchy ( -1633) (St J)
      • 3 Jeanne Gruchy



Notes and references

  1. ↑ Jean`s burial entry shows that he, like his descendants, was of Herupe, St John, where the family had lived since the 16th century
  2. ↑ RP 5/123 (1617) showed that the lately deceased Edouard Gruchy was the eldest son, Pierre the second, and Andre the third. Sara was the elder daughter and Jeanne the younger
  3. ↑ Described, on marriage, as "daughter of Jean, son of Pierre." Her godparents had been Pierre Gruchy, son of Edouard, and Marie, his wife, this Pierre being her father`s 1st cousin
  4. ↑ Affiliation established by: RP 32/30 (1720): Sara Hamon sold her house and land on the Fief es Benests, St John, to her son, Pierre Gruchy. On 17 December 1726, Nicolas Gruchy, younger son of Pierre Gruchy, sold an inheritance to Pierre Gruchy, eldest son and principal heir: RP 34/130
  5. ↑ RP 49/218 (1767): Pierre Gruchy, eldest son and principal heir of the late Pierre Gruchy and of his widow Elizabeth Rose, shared an inheritance with his sisters Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Gruchy, and Sara
  6. ↑ In RP 94/154 (1802), Marie Gruchy, wife of Philippe Bisson, Jeanne Gruchy and Elizabeth Gruchy, wife of Nicolas Cabot, daughters of the late Pierre Gruchy and Marie Nicolle, sold portions of the inheritance to Pierre Gruchy, eldest son and principal heir. In 1789, Pierre Gruchy sold his house to his son, Pierre, on condition that he looked after his father for the rest of his life. The house was on the Fief es Benests, St John: RP 71/251
  7. ↑ Pierre Gruchy, his brother, was said to be the eldest son in 1802.
  8. ↑ At Herupe Farm, Pierre Gruchy and Rachel Hamon have their initials engraved on stones: 17 PGC RHM 99 and PGC RHM 1807. This farm is to the west of another farm named Herupe, in that Vingtaine, St John
  9. ↑ Pierre Gruchy junior was, in March 1818, a candidate for the post of Constable of St John, his opponent being the sitting Constable, Jean Nicolle, a close neighbour and member of an influential family of wool merchants. In the election, Nicolle received 85 votes to Gruchy`s 75. The latter appealed on the grounds that many of those who had voted for Nicolle were ineligible. The appeal was turned down, but the matter dragged on into 1819 when, on the 25 May, the Court judged that Mr Nicolle should be allowed to be sworn in. Gruchy then appealed to the Privy Council, which decided on 22 June 1822, in favour of Nicolle, whose health was evidently affected by the outcome. He died six months later
  10. ↑ Described on burial as wife of Pierre Gruchy of Mont Mado
  11. ↑ Pierre was farming six acres in 1851 and was living at Herupe Farm, with his wife and three younger sons, Philippe was a carpenter. He must have been the son of Pierre and Marie Aubert. The house sold by Sara Hamon to her son Pierre was probably that at Mont Mado, on the Fief es Benests and the family owned both properties
  12. ↑ Cultivator, in 1853
  13. ↑ Farmer, as was his father
  14. ↑ Clerk in 1910, at the time of his second marriage, as a widower. He was of The Hollies, Trinity Road, which he left in his will, it having been an acquisition, to his widow, Julia
  15. ↑ Master mariner
  16. ↑ Solicitor; died of convulsions
  17. ↑ Merchant, as was his father
  18. ↑ Godfather: Elie Marett, grandfather
  19. ↑ Mariner
  20. ↑ Merchant
  21. ↑ Their daughter, Rachel Marett, married Philippe Le Quesne, great-great-grandfather of Walter Le Quesne
  22. ↑ Innkeeper, master quarrier (1850), stone merchant and farmer of eight acres in 1851, living at Mont Mado, with his wife, son Philippe (a master in the Merchant Service), with his wife Susan, and the unmarried daughters of the older couple, Mary Ann (a milliner), Sophia, Henriette Marie (a dressmaker) and Julia. They also had with them their grandchild, Mary Ann Nicolle
  23. ↑ With a daughter in 1851, named Mary Ann, staying with her Gruchy grandparents at Mont Mado, at the time of the census
  24. ↑ Master Mariner in 1851, living with his wife Susan, at his parents` home in Mont Mado, St John
  25. ↑ Master Founder
  26. ↑ Godfather: Joseph Le Rossignol
  27. ↑ Draper
  28. ↑ Carpenter
  29. ↑ Proprietor
  30. ↑ Merchant, Post Master, Coroner, J.P. and Commissioner. He arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1836, aged 15, on the brig Argus and settled at Arichat, where he lived, 1836-1844. He received a grant of land at Cap-La-Ronde, Isle Madame in 1857 and at Boudreauville, Arichat, in 1866. In the 1891 census, he was described as a fish and general merchant". He and his sons, Peter and Philip, also owned the 42-ton schooner Lennox and the 31-ton schooner Jubilee: Val Ford, Gruchy, Footprints on the Sands of Time,
  31. ↑ A son Henry
  32. ↑ Merchant, with his father in 1871 and 1881, then farmer (1891) at Poulamon, finally moving to Vancouver, British Columbia
  33. ↑ Moved from his birthplace, Nova Scotia, to Vancouver, British Columbia, in the 1890s: op.cit.
  34. ↑ As above, then served in WW1 as Lewis John de Gruchy, being a Private, 18th Garrison Reserve Battalion and then on the Railway Costruction and Forestry Department, Canadian Army. This may have been related to his having had a "Systemic murmur at apex of heart". His next of kin was given as John P. de Gruchy, who was perhaps his father
  35. ↑ PhD, American institutional economist and author. He settled in the USA in 1937, having previously been awarded his PhD by the University of Virginia in 1931. Professor of economics, University of Maryland, then professor emeritus. He was president of the Association for Evolutionary Economics and received in 1973 the Veblen-Commons Award, for career-long scholarly excellence. A review of his The Reconstruction of Economics: An Analysis of the Fundamentals of Institutional Economics (1987), described him as "the elder statesman of the institutionalist school of economic thought." Dudley Dillard wrote a biographical work The Contributions of Allan Gruchy to Institutional Economics and Allan G. Gruchy, 1906-1990: a scholar`s life
  36. ↑ Served in WW1 in the Canadian Expeditionary Force
  37. ↑ Store-Clerk, probably for his father, in 1871, then merchant(-1881-1891-)
  38. ↑ Source: 1851 census, Richmond County. Gordon does not feature, with his family, on later censuses. He may have died when a child
  39. ↑ Served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in WW1, having volunteered on the 22 September 1914. He was a Private, 1st Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment), and died 5 July 1921: Commonwealth War Graves Commission
  40. ↑ Merchant and trader
  41. ↑ Fish Merchant in 1891, Arichat (census), living with his wife Eva and daughter, Irene Gruchy, who was then aged two years
  42. ↑ Irene`s two brothers, on their attestation and army enrollment papers, gave her name as next-of-kin. On that of Harold, the next of kin was described as Mrs George Rice. The "George" had been struck out and replaced with "Irene". The original name is still just legible. Irene`s parentage can be gathered from the 1891 and 1901 censuses
  43. ↑ On joining the Army, he gave his civilian occupation as being butcher and mechanic, able to drive a car. This emphasises the decline of the cod fisheries, that had once been a guaranteed occupation and investment. By the early 1900s, the remaining fish merchants were struggling to make a profit. American freezer ships had been given access to the once cod-rich waters and before long stocks had dramatically declined. People began to look elsewhere for employment. Reginald served in WW1 as a Private, Canadian Expeditionary Force, surviving to resume his pre-war career
  44. ↑ On volunteering for the army, Harold gave his previous employment as garage foreman. In the 1931 census of Canada, he was working as a clerk. His wife was named as Hazel and their six year old daughter as Isobel. He served in WW1 as a Private in the Canadian Expeditionary Force
  45. ↑ Milliner in 1851
  46. ↑ Dressmaker, in 1851
  47. ↑ Settled in Nova Scotia, at Isle Madame, Cape Breton, having arrived in Canada in 1864. He enrolled in the 1st Regiment of Militia, Arichat, in the County of Richmond, Nova Scotia (Col. Isaac Le Vesconte, commanding), in 1866
  48. ↑ Sophia applied for Widow`s Bounty on the death of her husband in 1913. It was countersigned by Philip John Fiott
  49. ↑ Proprietor, as was his father
  50. ↑ Probably the Charles Gruchy who was a prizewinner at a military review in 1808
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