Descendants of Jean Gruchy and Elizabeth Le Sueur

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Descendants of Jean Gruchy



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  • 1 Jean Gruchy (1575-1662) (Tr) [1] m (1611, St H) Elizabeth Le Sueur
    • 2 Marie Gruchy (1612-1615) (Tr)
    • 2 Jeanne Gruchy (1615-1615) (Tr)
    • 2 Francois Gruchy (1618-1676?) (Tr) [2] m (1667) Susanne Larbalestier
      • 3 Charles Gruchy (1668-1734) (Tr) m 1 (1693, St Mt) Esther Cabot (1667-1707), daughter of Aaron and Marie Poingdestre
        • 4 Francois Gruchy (1694-1725) (Tr) [3]
        • 4 Charles Gruchy (1701-1752) (Tr) m 1 (1728, Tr) Sara Le Vavasseur dit Noel
          • 5 Sara Gruchy (1729- ) (Tr) m (1752) Jean Le Boutillier
        • 2nd wife of Charles Gruchy (1734, Tr) [4] Elizabeth Gruchy (1704-1776), daughter of Charles (Tr)
          • 5 Charles Gruchy (1734-by 1739) (Tr)
          • 5 Esther Gruchy (1736-1807) (Tr) m (1762, Tr) Francois Le Sueur
          • 5 Charles Gruchy (1739-1794) (Tr) m (1765, Tr) Jeanne Deslandes (1738-1825), daughter of Josue and Marie Bisson
            • 6 Charles Gruchy (1766-1822) (Tr) [5] m 1 (1793, St S) Marguerite Mattingley ( -1797)
              • 7 Jeanne Gruchy (1794-1811) (Tr)
            • by the 2nd marriage of Charles Gruchy (1798, St S) Francoise Pelgue (St S)
              • 7 Francois Gruchy (1799-1870) (Tr) [6] m (1822, St H) Nancy Le Maistre (1799-1865), daughter of Francois and Elizabeth Le Boutillier, the daughter of Jean and Marie Le Brun (St H)
                • 8 Francois Charles Gruchy (1822-1876) (Tr > St Mt) [7] m Amelia Nicolle, daughter of Edouard [8] and Marie Gaudin (St Mt)
                  • 9 Amelia Gruchy (1858- ) (St S) liv 1901
                  • 9 Charles Gruchy (1860-1888) (St Mt)
                  • 9 Mary Gruchy (1862- ) (St Mt) liv 1911
                • 8 George Gruchy (1825-1938) (Tr > St S) [9] m (1868) Marie Anne Le Maistre, [10] daughter of Francois
                  • 9 George Le Maistre Gruchy (1869-1940) (St S) [11] m (1923, Bristol) Elizabeth Glasspool
                  • 9 Eva Marie Le Maistre Gruchy (1873- ) (St S) m Edmund L'Estrange Whitehead [12]
                  • 9 Frank Le Maistre Gruchy (1875-1914) (St S) [13]
                  • 9 Grace Le Maistre Gruchy (1875- ) (St S) [14]
                • 8 Mary Ann Gruchy (1827-1910) (Tr) m (1874, St S) Thomas Aubin (1813-1879), son of Abraham
                • 8 Jane Fanny Gruchy (1830-1899) (Tr)
                • 8 Elizabeth Gruchy (2/1833-1903) (Tr) [15] m (1863, St S) Elie Querée of Boulivot, [16]
                • 8 Anne Gruchy (1836-1837) (Tr)
                • 8 Anne Gruchy (1838-1904) (Tr)
                • 8 Emelie Gruchy (1841- ) (Tr) liv.1911 [17]
              • 7 Nancy Gruchy (1800-1800?) (Tr)
              • 7 Marie Gruchy (1801-1802) (Tr)
            • 6 Esther Gruchy (1767-1806) (Tr) m (1792, St S) Charles Romeril
            • 6 Francois Gruchy (1769- ) (Tr) [18] m (1796, St S) Betty Larbalestier [19] daughter of Charles and Betty Romeril
              • 7 Charles Gruchy (1797-1801) (Tr)
              • 7 Betty Gruchy (1799- ) (Tr) m (1838, St H) Philippe Tourgis (Tr)
              • 7 Mary Ann (1802-1822) (Tr)
              • 7 Nancy Gruchy (1804- ) (Tr)
              • 7 Jeanne Gruchy (1807- ) (Tr) [20] m (1830, Tr) Charles Dorey [21]
              • 7 Francois Gruchy (1809-1809) (Tr)
              • 7 Francois Gruchy (1811-1830) (Tr) [22]
            • 6 Thomas James Gruchy (1773- ) (Tr) [23]
            • 6 Jean Gruchy (1775- ) (Tr) m (1799) Marie Picot
            • 6 Josue Gruchy ( -1789) (Tr)
          • 5 Francois Gruchy (1745-1818) (Tr) [24] m (1777, Tr) Susanne Dorey
            • 6 Francois Gruchy (1777-by 1782) (Tr)
            • 6 Susanne Gruchy (1779- ) (Tr)
            • 6 Francois Gruchy (1782- ) (Tr > St H) [25]
            • 6 Josue Gruchy (1784-1791) (Tr)
            • 6 Elizabeth Gruchy (1787- ) (Tr)
            • 6 Jean Gruchy (1788- ) (Tr > St H) [26] m (1820, St H) Elizabeth Sorel, [27] daughter of Jean and Marguerite Thacker (St H)
              • 7 Jean Gruchy (1821-1848) [28]
              • 7 Sorel Gruchy (1822-1868) (St H) [29] m (1860) Mary Ann Noel
                • 8 Sorel John Gruchy (1861- ) (St H) [30] m (1917, St H) Lillian Sophy Emma Mauger, daughter of Walter Charles [31]
                  • 9 Douglas Sorel Gruchy (1920-1944) no issue
                  • 9 Violet Lilian Gruchy (1923-2017) (Tr) liv 1941 (St H) [32] m (1979, Brighton) Wilfred Fannon (1904-1980)
                • 8 Ernest Charles Gruchy (1862- ) (St H) [33]
                • 8 Alfred Noel Gruchy (1863-1878) (St H)
                • 8 Edwin Gruchy (1865-1938) (St H) [34] m (1902, St My) Beatrice Mary Le Couteur (1867- ), daughter of John du Bois Le Couteur [35] (St H)
                  • 9 Edwin John Gruchy (1904-1980) (St H) liv 1966 [36] m (1936, St Luke) Mable Maud Beatrice Free, daughter of Ernest [37] (Jsy)
                  • 9 Ethel Beatrice Gruchy (1903-1966) (St My) [38]
                  • 9 Harold Gruchy (1905- ) (St Mk) liv 1965 [39]
                • 8 William Gruchy (1867-1888) [40]
              • 7 Thomas Gruchy (1825-1825) (St H)
              • 7 Francois Gruchy (1826-1877) (St H) [41] m (1850) Mary Ann Wilkes, [42] daughter of Thomas (Birmingham) and Ann, née Laurens
                • 8 Mary Ann Gruchy (1850-1872) (St H) [43]
                • 8 Julia Elizabeth Gruchy (1854-1887) (St H)
                • 8 John Gruchy (1856- ) (St H)
                • 8 William Henry Gruchy (1859-1860) (St H)
                • 8 Walter Thacker Whitley Gruchy (1861-1867) (St H)
                • 8 Alice Mary Gruchy (1863-1881) (St H)
              • 7 Elizabeth Margaret Gruchy (1826-1901) m Philippe Grandin
              • 7 Margaret Susanne Gruchy (1827-1910) (St H)
              • 7 Esther Gruchy (1828-1901) (St H)
        • 4 Esther Gruchy (1696-1783) (Tr) m (1725, Tr) Matthieu Gruchy ( -1783) (Tr)
        • 4 Elizabeth Gruchy (1704-1777) (Tr) m (1737, Tr) Richard du Feu (1709- ), son of Nicolas and Marie Le Breton (Tr) [44]
      • by the 2nd marriage of Charles Gruchy, (1708, Tr) Elizabeth Neel ( -1741)
        • 4 Susanne Gruchy (1709-1783) (Tr) m (1739, Tr) Charles Nicolle
        • 4 Jean Gruchy (1713-1740) (Tr) [45]
        • 4 Josue Gruchy (1716-1757) (Tr) m (1738, Tr) Marie du Feu (1711- ) (Tr)
          • 5 Charles Gruchy (1738-1769) (Tr)
          • 5 Marie Gruchy (1740- ) (Tr)
          • 5 Elizabeth Gruchy (1742- ) (Tr)
          • 5 Josue Gruchy (1746- ) (Tr)
        • 4 Charles Gruchy (1717-1735) (Tr)
      • 3 Andree Gruchy (1670- ) (Tr) m (1695) Philippe Baudains
      • 3 Marie Gruchy (1676- ) (Tr)
    • 2 Luc Gruchy (1622- ) (Tr > Gr) [46] m (1660, Gr) Jeanne Messervy, daughter of Edouard [47]
      • 3 Edouard Gruchy (1666- ) (Gr)
    • 2 Marie Gruchy (1625- ) (Tr)
    • 2 Jeanne Gruchy (1628- ) (Tr) m Philippe Le Sueur



Notes and references

  1. ↑ Vingtenier of Augres, 1626
  2. ↑ Vingtenier of Augres, 1647-1666
  3. ↑ Me Aaron Cabot, Centenier, godfather
  4. ↑ There is an engraved stone at their home, Les Prairies Farm, Trinity, commemorating their marriage, dated 1734
  5. ↑ Churchwarden, 1803
  6. ↑ Francois Gruchy was farming 15 acres, or about 38 vergees, in his ancestral Vingtaine of Grande Augres at the time of the 1851 census. By that of 1861, he had retired and was living with his St Helier-born wife and five Trinity-born daughters in St Saviour
  7. ↑ Captain, Militia; Solicitor and Deputy for St Martin. He inherited from his mother`s family the Fief de la Houguette, in St Saviour, becoming its seigneur. His children all died childless, as the fief passed, after their death, to his nephew, George Le Maistre Gruchy
  8. ↑ MRCS
  9. ↑ Procureur du Bien Public, Trinity, 1850. He lived, after his marriage, at Ronceville, St Saviour, a property that had been purchased by his father-in-law, Francois Le Maistre
  10. ↑ Marie Anne was still living at Ronceville, which is recorded as having 16 rooms, at the time of the 1911 census, with her two unmarried daughters, and servants
  11. ↑ OV. Of Ronceville. BA, Advocate and Major, RJA; Seigneur de la Houguette
  12. ↑ DSO; Lieut-Colonel, whose son Edmund Frank Whitehead, MA (Oxon), born in 1915, was the Seigneur de la Houguette in 1967: Who`s Who in the Channel Islands, (1967)
  13. ↑ OV; Captain, Leicestershire Regiment; killed in action at Armentieres, France (1914). Gruchy had been, in 1896, a Lieutenant Militia, but entered the regular Army, serving in the Boer War, during which he was wounded and mentioned in despatches. He served next in Ireland and India. He was a noted skier and horseman: Victoria College Register, 1852 to 1929,
  14. ↑ Gracie Gruchy was unwell through most of her life, as were her female 1st cousins. This led to a fall at her home, Ronceville, from a first floor window: Advocate and Greffier Philip Le Couteur
  15. ↑ Walter Le Quesne was mistaken in believing Elizabeth Gruchy was the woman of that name who was buried in Trinity on 5 May 1835. She was shown in both the 1851 and 1861 censuses, and married in 1863, the marriage entry being witnessed by her elder brother F C Gruchy
  16. ↑ Farmer, of 10 acres, or about 25 vergees, in 1881. They retired to Hastings Terrace, St Luke, where Elizabeth died in 1903
  17. ↑ Emilie Gruchy lived as a spinster with her unmarried sisters Jane Fanny and Anne, whom she outlived, at 1 Wellington Road and then at 1 Stopford Place, Stopford Road. She was alive in 1911
  18. ↑ Of La Chesnee Farm, Trinity, Constable of the parish, 1809-1812
  19. ↑ Sister of Charles Larbalestier, Constable of Trinity, 1803-1809
  20. ↑ Heiress of this branch
  21. ↑ Their son, Charles Francois Dorey (1831- ) became a Jurat
  22. ↑ Buried in Trinity, as "Francois, son of the late Francois Gruchy and Bettey Larbalestier"
  23. ↑ Godparents:Thomas James Gruchy and Marie Dumaresq, his wife. He was probably buried as Thomas
  24. ↑ Master mariner. The Jersey genealogist, the Rev J A Messervy wrote (1922) that "Francois was engaged in the Newfoundland trade". His name does not feature among existing lists of those trading, 1790-1792, with Newfoundland, nor does it appear in the maritime historian, John Jean`s lists of Jersey masters, shipbuilders and sailmakers. However, the Chronique de Jersey (September 1799) mentions Francois Gruchy as Master of the Betsy
  25. ↑ Lived In St Helier
  26. ↑ Candlemaker: 1851 Census, St Helier
  27. ↑ Mrs S Gruchy of 8 Dumaresq Street, was a Tallow Chandler, grocer and tea dealer in 1870: British Press and Jersey Times` Royal Almanac (1870)
  28. ↑ Sailor, died in an explosion in Cardiff
  29. ↑ Carpenter, in 1851: Census, St Helier. His occupation is accurately given in the 1841 census, which often rounds off ages, but the enumerator has him "Abel" rather than Sorel
  30. ↑ OV; Schoolmaster at various schools in England, including Chard Grammar School (1891). Ordained curate in Somerset and St Helier, then Rector of St Mary, 1896-1918, and then of Trinity, until 1934: Victoria College Register, 1852 to 1929,
  31. ↑ Master mariner
  32. ↑ Violet lived after WW2 in England, initially in Kensington. The 1965 Will of her first cousin, Ethel Beatrice Gruchy, gives her address at that time as Tunbridge Wells, Kent. She married late in life, lived for some years in Brighton, Sussex, and died aged 94, in Hove
  33. ↑ Unmarried merchant`s clerk, 1891 and 1911 census, St Saviour, Jersey
  34. ↑ OV; attended Victoria College, 1878-1880; Chief clerk, London and South-Western Railway
  35. ↑ Agent, Anglo-French Steamship Company
  36. ↑ Buyer and salesman: 1941 German Occupation Registration Cards, at Jersey Archive: D/S/A/4/A5167. He was the executor of his sister`s will in 1966
  37. ↑ Storekeeper
  38. ↑ Clerk, of Simla, Janvrin Road, St Helier. Will dated 4 October 1965 and probate granted in 1966: D/Y/B1/102/44, at Jersey Archive
  39. ↑ Journalist (1965) and news editor (1939): Temporary immigration certificate, Brazil and 1939 England and Wales Register, respectively
  40. ↑ OV
  41. ↑ Tailor, in 1851 Census, St Helier, and from 1856 a baker. His will, dated and proved in 1877, appointed his wife and sister, Marguerite Susanne Gruchy, as executrixes, with all personal property being bequeathed to the former: D/Y/A/39/97, at Jersey Archive
  42. ↑ Milliner
  43. ↑ Governess
  44. ↑ Of Les Ifs, Trinity
  45. ↑ The four younger children of Charles Gruchy in 1741 sold their share of their late father`s inheritance to their elder brother, Charles. The four are named as Josue Gruchy and his sisters Esther, wife of Matthieu Gruchy; Elizabeth, wife of Richard du Feu; and Susanne, wife of Charles Nicolle. Jean had died by then, without issue: L/C/227/A4/16 (1741), at Jersey Archive. He was formerly thought by Walter Le Quesne, subject to a query, to have married Sara Nicolle, at some date. He suggested a second marriage to Rachel Giffard in 1732. However, the issue of both marriages overlapped. The descendants of Sara Nicolle were found to have been fathered by a Jean Gruchy who was older than this Jean (generation 4). They now feature under Descendants of Jean Gruchy and Sara Nicolle. Those of Jean Gruchy and Rachel Giffard have yet to be placed
  46. ↑ Churchwarden of Grouville
  47. ↑ Solicitor-General
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