Descendants of Francois Gruchy - 2

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Descendants of Francois Gruchy



Gruchy of Champs Clairs, Trinity

This tree was researched by Jerripedia editors in 2020 and 2024, to show as much as possible of the lineage of the Gruchy family which owned Champs Clairs, Trinity, for seven generations. It confirms and extends the earlier research of the Rev J A Messervy and Walter J Le Quesne. It also corrects an error in the Old Jersey Houses article on Champs Clairs, which suggests that Charles at Generation 5 was the son of Francois Gruchy and Elizabeth, nee Le Bas. They had no children and Charles was their nephew, as shown here

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  • 1 Francois Gruchy (1664-1742) (Tr) m 1 (1687, St L) Marthe Grossier (1667-by 10/1719), daughter of Richard (1625?- ) (Tr) [1]
    • 2 Francois Gruchy (1689-1773) (Tr) [2] m (1731, Tr) Marie Bisson (1701- ) daughter of Daniel (Tr) [3] and Elizabeth Lempriere
      • 3 Francois Gruchy (1732-1733) (Tr)
      • 3 Marie Gruchy (1734-1798) (Tr) m (1751, Tr) Philippe Ahier (Tr)
      • 3 Elizabeth Gruchy (1737- ) (Tr) [4]
      • 3 Francois Gruchy (1739-1794) (Tr) [5] m 1 (1767, St H) Elizabeth Le Bas; 2 (1782, Tr) Rachel Lempriere (Tr)
      • 3 Susanne Gruchy (1742- ) (Tr)
      • 3 Charles Gruchy (1744-1828) (Tr) [6] m (1785, Tr) Elizabeth Pinel (1754-1843), [7] daughter of Philippe [8] and Elizabeth Marie Marett (Tr)
        • 4 Elizabeth Gruchy (1785- ) (Tr) m (1812, Tr) Charles Hamon (Tr) [9] (issue)
        • 4 Charles Gruchy (1787-1870) (Tr) [10] m (1810, Tr) Marie Larbalestier (1787-1863), daughter of Charles and Betty Romeril
          • 5 Marie Gruchy (1811-1886) (Tr) [11] m (1837, Tr) Jean Noel (St S) [12]
          • 5 Anne Gruchy (1814-1886) (Tr) [13] m (1842, Tr) William Owen Jones (Wales) [14]
          • 5 Elizabeth Gruchy (1816- ) (Tr) [15]
          • 5 Charles Gruchy (1818-1900) (Tr) Jurat [16] m (1860, Tr) Selina Collis (1829-1883) daughter of Henry [17] and Selina Shackle (Eng.)
            • 6 Charles Frederick Gruchy (1861-1946) (Tr) [18] m 1 (1887, Tr) Mary Mildred du Heaume (1858-1920) daughter of William (Revd.) [19]
              • 7 Charles Gruchy (1889-1965) (Tr) [20] m (1914, St H) Mary Frances Margaret Le Cornu ( -1941), daughter of Francis (St H) [21]
                • 8 Vivienne Le Cornu Gruchy (1915-1998, Eng) m Frederick Quiller (1906-1970)
                • 8 Yvette Marguerite Gruchy (1920-1991) [22] m (by 1941) Harold Bellfield Coley
                • 8 Charles Leonard Gruchy (1927-2002) Jurat [23] m Estelle de la Cour ( -2007)
                  • 9 Philippa Gruchy (1962-2010) m ( -- ) Pickering
                  • 9 Other issue
                • 8 William John Gruchy (1930- ) [24]
            • 2nd mge Charles Frederick Gruchy m [25] (1921, St H) Selina Collis (1871-1962) (NZ) daughter of Frederick Collis and Hannah Williams [26]
            • 6 Henry Francis Gruchy (1863-1951) (Tr > Eng.) [27] m (1889, Stockwell) Lilla Beatrice Gray, Widow, née Pearce, daughter of Henry (Stockwell) [28]
            • 6 Edgar John Gruchy (1864-1930) (Tr > Eng.) [29] m (1902, Ldn.) Minnie Josephine Wescombe, daughter of Thomas [30]
            • 6 Walter Collis Gruchy (1865-1966) (Tr) [31] m (1903, St Mt) Lydia Margaret Gaudin, daughter of Thomas [32] and Jane Margaret de Gruchy (St S)
              • 7 Margeret Phyllis Collis Gruchy (1906-1981) unm.
              • 7 Edmée Collis Gruchy (1907-1973, S.Afr.) m (1934, Tr) Cyril Ernest Leonard Le Vavasseur dit Durell (Eng > S.Afr.) [33]
              • 7 Selina Kate Collis Gruchy (1915-2004) [34] m John Kyrle Chatfield (Revd.), son of Kyrle [35]
            • 6 Ada Florence Gruchy (1866- ) (Tr) m Julius Labey [36] (Gr)
            • 6 Emily Selina Gruchy (1868-1948) (Tr > Scot.) m (1908, Tr) David Dunlop [37] son of John (Ayrshire) [38]
            • 6 Cecil George Gruchy (1871-1871) (Tr)
          • 5 Jane Gruchy (1822- ) (Tr) [39] m (1843, Tr) Hugh Godfray, [40] son of Hugh [41]
          • 5 Rachel Gruchy (1822- ) (Tr) [42] m (1853, Tr) Jean Francois Le Feuvre (St L), son of Richard
          • 5 Esther Isabella Gruchy (1824- ) (Tr) liv. 1864
        • 4 Francois Gruchy (1790-1807) (Tr)
        • 4 Philippe Gruchy (1792-1850) (Tr) m (1817, Tr) [43] Sara Marie Chevalier (1785-1860)
        • 4 Marie Gruchy (1794-1843) (Tr) m (1822, St H) Thomas Payn (St Mt)
        • 4 Sophie Gruchy (1795-1796) (Tr)
        • 4 Jean Gruchy (1797- ) (Tr) unm. [44]
        • 4 Sophie Gruchy (1800-1851) (Tr)
    • 2 Marthe Gruchy (1691-1755) (Tr) m Francois Le Maistre
  • by the 2nd marriage of Francois Gruchy (1693, St J) Susanne Dumaresq
    • 2 Philippe Gruchy (1694- ) ob
    • 2 Philippe Gruchy (1698- ) (Tr)
    • 2 Josue Gruchy (1703- ) (Tr)
    • 2 Jeanne Gruchy (1706- ) m (1728) Josue Le Sueur
    • 2 Elizabeth Gruchy (1720- )

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Marthe Grossier`s inheritance was divided on 13/10/1719 between her eldest son Francois Gruchy and his sister Marthe, wife of Francois Le Maistre
  2. ↑ Vingtenier of Augrès, 1743, and Sergeant in the North Regiment, Militia
  3. ↑ Vingtenier of Augrès, 1704
  4. ↑ Godparents: Mr Daniel Bisson and Dlle Elizabeth Lempriere
  5. ↑ No issue
  6. ↑ Vingtenier of Augrès in 1785 and Churchwarden for Trinity in 1803. The doubt about the identity of the Charles who married Elizabeth Pinel is resolved, as they were the godparents of Marie Gruchy (1811-1886), in generation 5, and were described as her grandparents
  7. ↑ Her family had inherited the Fief ès Poingdestres from her paternal grandmother Marie Poingdestre
  8. ↑ Constable of Trinity
  9. ↑ Landed Proprietor in 1851, of 7 acres, being about 18 vergees
  10. ↑ Landed proprietor of 24 acres - about 60 vergees - as shown in the 1851 census, living at Champs Clairs, Augrès, Trinity, with his wife, son Charles (then unmarried), daughter Ann Jones with her husband and family, unmarried daughter Esther Isabella, Noel granddaughters and brother Jean
  11. ↑ Godparents: Mr Charles Gruchy and Dame Elizabeth Pinel, his wife, grandfather and grandmother of the child. To South Africa
  12. ↑ Farmer, of Maufant: 1841 Census. They afterwards emigrated to Durban, South Africa, where they have descendants
  13. ↑ Godparents: Charles Larbalestier Esq. and Dlle Marie Le Capelain, his wife
  14. ↑ Draper and Proprietor of Houses: 1851 Census. They had descendants
  15. ↑ Godparents: Me Charles Hamon and the child`s mother, representing Mse Elizabeth Gruchy, wife of Me Charles Hamon
  16. ↑ Of Champs Clairs, Deputy for Trinity, then Constable, 1864-1868; Jurat, 1868-1900. Major, Militia
  17. ↑ Wine merchant, of Ealing (1829) and Gentleman (1860), living with his family at Oak Cottage, Croiserie, Trinity: 1841 Census
  18. ↑ Farmer at Champs Clairs, Trinity, in 1901 and 1911, before emigrating as a widower to New Zealand in the 1920s, where he died in 1946. In the 1911 census, Mary Mildred, wife of Charles Frederick, is stated to have been married 23 years, with one child having been born, who was still living
  19. ↑ M.A.; Rector of Trinity, 1850-1901
  20. ↑ Lived and worked in Canada, before returning to Jersey. He was a Real Estate Agent, at the time of his marriage in 1914. Charles` godmother was Mary Ann Le Vavasseur dit Durell, wife of the Rector of Trinity, the infant`s grandmother. Charles returned in 1918 to farming at Holmbury, in Trinity
  21. ↑ Of `Les Vagues,` Roseville Street, St Helier
  22. ↑ Newsagent, in partnership with her sister in 1946
  23. ↑ Of Champs Clairs, which he inherited in 1946, from his grandfather; MRCVS, States of Jersey Veterinary Surgeon
  24. ↑ Landed proprietor
  25. ↑ Maternal first cousins
  26. ↑ Both Charles Frederick and Selina, his wife, were buried Old Cemetery Oamaru, North Otago, NZ
  27. ↑ OV. Lieutenant, East Regiment, Militia (1885), Reserve (1897). Bank Clerk (1889), Bank Manager (1911), in England
  28. ↑ No issue
  29. ↑ OV: Surgeon, L.S.A. (1899); L.M.S.S.A. (1911)
  30. ↑ Journalist and Author
  31. ↑ Of Bishopstown, Trinity, Farmer. In 1911, the household consisted of Walter Collis, his wife, mother-in-law, two daughters, and three servants. The form states they had then been married seven years, with issue two children, both living. He died aged 100 years and 6 months
  32. ↑ Of La Maïtrerie, Quéruée, St Martin, Deputy for St Martin
  33. ↑ In banking, at the time of his marriage; Bank Official. They had issue in South Africa, including Jacqueline Edmée Durell, who married Ian Elsby
  34. ↑ No issue
  35. ↑ Director of Public Instruction, Bombay
  36. ↑ Doctor of Medicine
  37. ↑ Civil Servant, then Assistant-Surveyor, G.P.O.
  38. ↑ Farmer
  39. ↑ Twin
  40. ↑ Professor of Mathematics and author of Godfray`s Map of Jersey (1849)
  41. ↑ Master Mariner
  42. ↑ Twin
  43. ↑ 1819 datestone at Maison de Bas, Trinity
  44. ↑ Master Mariner. Probably the Jean Gruchy who was Master of Hebe (1827), Thebe (1835) and the 190 ton brig Pomona, which he owned jointly, 1835-1838, with Hamon and Coutanche, who built the ship. In the 1851 census, he is shown as an unmarried retired ship`s master
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