Descendants of Jean Gruchy and Sara Nicolle

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Descendants of Jean Gruchy



Gruchy of La Ruette, Rozel, Trinity, now the Eric Young Orchid Foundation

This tree has had three researchers, which can sometimes give rise to problems. However, Pauline Taylor, née Dart, shared her findings with Guy Dixon, who was engaged on the same subject. A large amount of detailed information regarding those Gruchys who settled in France, and then in Canada, has been collected and published by Val Ford, in Gruchy, Footprints on the Sands of Time. Jerripedia acknowledges her valuable contribution to the Gruchy history, and not least to this page

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  • 1 Jean Gruchy (1700- ) (Tr) [1] m (by 1728) Sara Nicolle [2]
    • 2 Marie Gruchy (1728- ) (Tr) [3]
    • 2 Charles Gruchy (1730-by 1739) (Tr)
    • 2 Elizabeth Gruchy (1735- ) (Tr) [4]
    • 2 Sara Gruchy (1737- ) (Tr) [5]
    • 2 Charles Gruchy (1739- ) (Tr) [6]
    • 2 Jean Gruchy junr. (1744- ) (Tr) m (1767, Tr) Sara Gruchy (Tr)
      • 3 Sara Gruchy (1768- ) (Tr) [7]
      • 3 Jean Gruchy (1770- ) (Tr)
      • 3 Charles Gruchy (7/1772-4/1848) (Tr) [8] m (1802, St C) Elizabeth Gruchy (1778-1844) (St C > Tr), [9] daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Monamy (St C)
        • 4 Charles Gruchy (1818-1898) (Tr) [10] m (1841, Tr) Ann Gruchy (1813- ), daughter of Philippe [11] and Anne de Gruchy (1787- ) [12] (Tr)
          • 5 Charles Gruchy (1847-1907) [13] m Caroline Binet (1857-1947), daughter of Thomas and Caroline Le Gros (Tr)
            • 6 Charles Gruchy (1883-1966) (Tr) [14] m Ethel Thynne (Devon)
            • 6 John Gruchy (1884-1968) (Tr > Can.) [15] m Jane Le Grand
              • 7 Reginald Gruchy (1912- ) (Can.) m Adrienne
            • 6 Thomas Gruchy (1885-1944) (Tr > Eng.) [16] m (1922, Portsmouth) Maud (Daisy) Hill (1884- )
            • 6 George Gruchy (1888-1984) (Tr > Can.) [17] m Annie Adelaide Irving (Ont.)
              • 7 Charles Gruchy (Can) m Unknown
                • 8 Charles Gruchy (Can)
              • 7 Son Gruchy (Can)
              • 7 Mary Janet Gruchy (Can)
            • 6 Caroline Gruchy (1886-1977) (Tr) m (1919, St B) Paul Oke Dart (St B) [18]
            • 6 Annie Gruchy (1889-1947) m Emile Siouville
            • 6 Florence Gruchy (1891-1970) (Tr) m Thomas Baudains
            • 6 Lilian Gruchy (1892-1942) m George Gilbert
            • 6 Blanche Binet Gruchy (1900-1986) (Tr) m (1922, St C) John Kitchener Kempster, [19] son of Albert Joseph [20]
          • 5 Anne Elizabeth Gruchy (1849-1928) (Tr) [21] m (1882, Tr) Peter Le Quesne (1853-1890), [22] son of John [23] (St C) (descendants in Australia)
          • 5 John Gruchy (1851-1913) [24] m (1886, Tr) Mary Ann Valpy, daughter of John (Gr)
            • 6 Marian Elsie Gruchy (1890-1939) m (1916, St H) Ernest Stephen Taylor, [25] son of Charles [26] (St S)
            • 6 Ethel Marjorie Gruchy (1896- ) m Jack Perchard
          • 5 Philip Gruchy (1854-by 1901) [27] m Ellen Blampied [28]
            • 6 Ellen Gruchy (1884- ) [29] m (1914, St S) Edward Anthoine Remon, [30] son of James (St H)
            • 6 Hilda Gruchy (1885-1935) [31]
            • 6 Lydia Ann Gruchy (1886-1946) [32] m Philip John Le Grand [33]
            • 6 Anna Gruchy (1889-1941- ) [34]
            • 6 Ada Gruchy (1892- )
        • 4 Marie Gruchy (1820- ) (Tr) m 1 (1843, Tr) Charles Journeaux, [35] son of Jean [36] (St Mt); 2 (1859, St S) Jean Picot, son of Jean [37] (St Mt)
        • 4 Anne Gruchy (1823- ) (Tr) m (1847, Tr) Thomas Drelaud, [38] son of Jacques [39] (St S)
        • 4 Jean Gruchy (1826- ) (Tr) [40] m 1 (1846, Tr) Emilie Vardon, [41] daughter of Edouard [42] (Tr); m 2 (1867, Tr) Sophie Marie Nicolle, daughter of Philippe [43] (Tr)
          • 5 John Gruchy (1847- ) (Tr)
          • 5 Emilie Mary Gruchy (1848- ) (Tr) [44]
          • 5 Charles Gruchy (1852-1933) (Tr) [45] m (1882, Lambeth) Mary Ann Hicks (1858-1902) (Fr)
            • 6 Charles Herbert Gruchy (1884-1916) (Fr)[46]
            • 6 Victor Albert Gruchy (1887-1981) (Fr) [47] m (1919) Marianne Huggard
              • 7 Charles Albert Gruchy (1919-1943) (Can) KIA [48]
              • 7 Evelyn Gruchy (Can)
              • 7 Victor Gruchy (Can) [49] m Beryl Strickert (with issue, seven daughters) [50]
              • 7 Gordon Gruchy ( Can)
              • 7 May Gruchy (Can)
            • 6 Arthur Gordon Gruchy (1889-1915) (Fr) [51]
            • 6 Stanley Philip Gruchy (1891-1963) (Fr) [52]
            • 6 Cecile Gruchy (1891-1969) (Fr) twin [53] m (1913, Mx) Walter Woodbridge
            • 6 Florence Evelyn Gruchy (1892-1969) (Fr) (Saskatchewan) [54]
            • 6 Lydia Emilie Gruchy (1894-1992) (Fr) [55]
            • 6 Hilda Gruchy
            • 6 Daughter Gruchy
            • 6 Daughter Gruchy
          • 5 Philippe Gruchy (1854- ) (Gsy) [56] m 1 (1878, St S) Elise Susan Marais (c1858-1883), daughter of Jean and Susan (St Mt)
            • 6 Ada Elise Gruchy (1879- ) (St Mt) [57] m (1912, Ston) Alfred Le Breton
            • 6 Philip Alfred Gruchy (1882- ) (St Mt) [58]
          • 2nd wife of Philip Gruchy (1884, St H) [59] Esther Le Sueur Payn, daughter of Philippe [60] (St Mt)
            • 6 Gertrude Gruchy (1886- ) (St Mt)
            • 6 Hilda Annie Gruchy (1889- ) (St Mt), liv. 1911
            • 6 John Payn Gruchy (1890-1891) (St Mt)
          • 5 Alfred Thomas Gruchy (1856- ) (Tr) [61] m (1884, Lambeth) Elizabeth Margaret Dark
            • 6 Sidney Victor Gruchy (1886-1951) (Sy) [62] m (1910, Sy.) Martha Gertrude Warne (1887- )
              • 7 Vivien Gruchy (1916- ), liv. 1951
            • 6 Winifred Alice Gruchy (1889-1896) (Sy)
            • 6 Dorothy Kate Gruchy (1897-1988) (Sy)
          • 5 Adolphus Walter Gruchy (1859-1924) (Tr) [63]
        • 2nd wife of Jean Gruchy (1867, Tr) Sophie Marie Nicolle
          • 5 Lydia Mary Gruchy (1872- ) (St S) [64]
      • 3 George Gruchy (1775- ) (Tr)
      • 3 Marie Gruchy (1778- ) (Tr)
      • 3 Philippe Gruchy (1780-by 1784) (Tr)
      • 3 Betty Gruchy (1783-by 1788) (Tr)
      • 3 Philippe Gruchy (10/1784- ) (Tr)
      • 3 Betty Gruchy (1788- ) (Tr)


Notes and references

  1. ↑ In 1768 Jean Gruchy snr was godfather of Sara Gruchy, daughter of Jean , together with his daughter Marie Gruchy, who was the godmother. From the baptism in 1735 of Jean senior`s daughter Elizabeth, relatives of Jean Gruchy senior will have been Charles Gruchy and Marie, his sister, who may well have been his siblings. Charles was also godfather, with his future wife Sara Queree, of two more of Jean senior`s children, Sara (1737) and Charles (1739)
  2. ↑ In his typed Gruchy genealogy, Walter Le Quesne, in recording what is now called Descendants of Jean Gruchy and Elizabeth Le Sueur, in generation 4, provisionally ascribed Sara Nicolle as wife to that particular Jean Gruchy, born in 1713, but subject to a question mark that he inked in afterwards. He is distinct from the Jean on this page, generation 1, who would have had to marry at an extremely young age, in order to father the family featured here. That placement included no Charles Gruchy as sufficiently close a relative to have been chosen as godparent in three out of six instances
  3. ↑ Her father`s name alone was given on baptism. Her godmother was Marie Nicolle
  4. ↑ Godparents: Charles Gruchy and Marie, his sister
  5. ↑ Godparents: Charles Gruchy and Sara Queree, who married in 1740, in Trinity
  6. ↑ Godparents: Charles Gruchy and Sara Queree
  7. ↑ Godparents: Jean Gruchy and Marie, his daughter
  8. ↑ Mariner and then farmer (1841); buried 2 April 1848, Farmer, aged 75, son of Jean
  9. ↑ Sister of Charles (1781) and Jean (1783)
  10. ↑ Of La Ruette, La Boucterie (Victoria Village), Farmer of 30 vergees
  11. ↑ Of La Planque, Rozel, Farmer of 25 vergees
  12. ↑ Anne de Gruchy, mother-in-law of Charles, was living, aged 74, with them in 1861, at La Ruette
  13. ↑ Of La Ruette, Farmer of 30 vergees
  14. ↑ Of La Ruette, Farmer. Without issue, he sold La Ruette in 1936
  15. ↑ Settled in Canada
  16. ↑ Served in the Royal Navy (1903-1925- ) aboard many ships. Able Seamen, HMS Dido. Served in the Great War and was finally Petty Officer, dying in Portsmouth, Hampshire, 1944
  17. ↑ Served in the Great War in the Royal Air Force. Settled at Rainy River, Ontario, in Canada. He was a locomotive engineer in the 1931 Census of Canada, eventually becoming Mayor of Rainy River, 1958-1959
  18. ↑ Carpenter. Parents of Howard and Pauline Taylor, née Dart, researcher of much of this part of the tree
  19. ↑ Farmer
  20. ↑ Retired RSM, British Army
  21. ↑ Died in Australia
  22. ↑ Mariner
  23. ↑ Proprietor
  24. ↑ Master Mariner. He was presented with a silver goblet by the Russian Government, for having rescued in mid-Atlantic the crew of the Russian schooner Jadvica on 13 April 1895, when master of the Glasgow steamer Naparoma
  25. ↑ Clerk, later estate agent
  26. ↑ Saddler
  27. ↑ Shoemaker, living in Victoria Village in 1891
  28. ↑ Dressmaker (1901)
  29. ↑ Dressmaker
  30. ↑ Farmer, son of a proprietor. The wedding was witnessed by Anna Gruchy
  31. ↑ Tailoress (1891); servant at East View Farm, Trinity (1911)
  32. ↑ Dressmaker (1891)
  33. ↑ Farm Labourer, in 1941: Registration Cards (1941)
  34. ↑ Dressmaker, living in Vauxhall Street, St Helier in 1941: Registration Cards (1941)
  35. ↑ Shoemaker
  36. ↑ Farmer
  37. ↑ Proprietor. The marriage was witnessed by Thomas Drelaud, the bride`s brother-in-law
  38. ↑ Shoemaker
  39. ↑ Farmer
  40. ↑ Carpenter in 1846, Mason in 1852 but continuing in his original trade until the purchase in 1867 of Tower View, St Saviour, when he became a farmer. He and his second wife, Sophie Marie, are shown at this address in censuses to 1901, farming about 25 vergees
  41. ↑ Schoolmistress, in 1846
  42. ↑ Carpenter
  43. ↑ Farmer
  44. ↑ Emilie Mary, who was unmarried, lived with her parents and then with her father and step-mother, Sophie Marie, at Tower View, St Saviour, featured there in the 1881 and 1891 censuses
  45. ↑ Master tailor, in London and then in Paris, working for Maison Redfern, living near Asnieres, where his children were born. In 1902, his wife died, buried at Asnieres. Charles migrated with his daughters Florence and Lydia in 1913 to Saskatchewan to join other members of the family, where he died in 1933
  46. ↑ He emigrated to Canada, with his brother Stanley, in 1907, settling near Strasbourg, Saskatchewan. He enlisted in the Army in November 1915 and served in the Great War as a Private, 16th Battalion Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment), known as the Canadian Scottish. Promoted to Corporal (11 February 1916), at his own request he returned to the ranks (30 July 1916). He was killed during heavy and prolonged fighting near the village of Courcelles, on the Somme, attempting the capture of Regina Trench, on 9 October 1916
  47. ↑ Carpenter, then farmer. He emigrated to Saskatchewan, Canada in 1905, with his brother Arthur. Having lost several fingers in a carpentry accident, he was unable to serve during the war. The family farm, Sunnyfields, was near Strasbourg, and finally consisted of 320 acres, all of it virgin land, which the brothers cleared and brought into cultivation themselves, building also the farmhouses
  48. ↑ Flight Sergeant, formerly Wireless Operator/Air Gunner, RCAF, lost during a night raid on Berlin, when the crew`s Halifax bomber was shot down near Hamburg, on 17/18 January 1943. Before the war he had been a farmer at Sunnyfields, near Strasbourg, Saskatchewan
  49. ↑ Farmer near Strasbourg, Saskatchewan
  50. ↑ A daughter, Leona Gruchy and her husband Fraser Kent, took on, for some time, the family farm
  51. ↑ He emigrated to Canada in 1905, with his brother Victor, settling near Strasbourg, Saskatchewan. After studying at the University of Saskatchewan, he gained his BA. He then decided to train for the ministry, becoming a student at the Presbyterian Theological College, St Andrews, where he was described, as Val Ford wrote, as an “eager, intelligent and able honours student”. Feeling duty-bound to interrupt his studies, hopefully for not too long a period, he enlisted in the Canadian Forces on 26 October 1914, serving in the Machine Gun Section, 28th Battalion Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan or North-West Regiment). At the completion of his battalion`s war training in Kent, in musketry, Bayonet Fighting, Bombing and Entrenching, he was accidently drowned whilst bathing (Val Ford)
  52. ↑ Emigrated to Canada in 1907 with his brother Bert, settling near Strasbourg, Saskatchewan; Farmer. Volunteered for service in the Great War: Lance-Corporal, Canadian Infantry, wounded
  53. ↑ Educated, as were her five sisters at Seaford Ladies College, returning to Asnieres for the school holidays. She was the grandmother of Val Ford, authoress of Gruchy, Footprints in the Sands of Time
  54. ↑ Florence arrived in Canada in 1913, with her father and sister Lydia. She taught at a local school while studying at the University of Saskatchewan, where she graduated in Arts in 1916. She had wished to work in India as a missionary doctor, but it would take many years to train, so she trained as a nurse at Winnipeg General Hospital from 1917-1920, leaving for India the following August, under the auspices of the Women`s Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church. She was a missionary nurse in India, in Rajasthan and later in Madhya Pradesh, serving in that country for 39 years
  55. ↑ From university, where she graduated in Arts in 1920, Lydia went to study theology at St Andrew`s Presbyterian College in Saskatoon, becoming the first woman to graduate there, becoming a Batchelor of Divinity in 1923. She applied in 1926 for ordination in the United Church, but was refused, as a woman. She re-applied every two years for ten years, but with the same result. She was, during this time, a lay pastor in Verigin and elsewhere. In 1936, she finally became the first woman in Canada to be ordained a minister of the United Church. She was the first woman to be awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from St Andrew`s in 1953. She was Acting Principal of the United Church Training School, but returned to the Prairies for the next 20 years as a pastor, retiring in 1962
  56. ↑ Painter (1878), Cultivator (1884), Agricultural labourer (1891) and carpenter (1901)
  57. ↑ Bernard Gruchy, born in St Helier on 5 October 1899, served in the Great War from 1917 to 1919 on HMS President 11 and HMS Pembroke 11. His date and place of birth are given in the Royal Navy Registers of Seamen`s Services, 1848-1939 at www.ancestry.co.uk. In 1918 he was briefly discharged. The Royal Air Force Airmen Records, 1918-1940, at the same site, provide, unlike the online naval records, the names of those who were next of kin to their servicemen. His was Ada Le Breton, mother. Ada Elise married Alfred Le Breton in 1912. In 1901 she was an unmarried cook, aged 21, in the Don Road household of Rowena Wormald. Her son was living then and in 1911 in the household of Thomas John de Gruchy and Jane, his wife, nee Queripel, being described as their “nephew” on one occasion, and “niece” on another. They do not appear to have been related to the boy, but were a childless couple who probably offered to look after him. Naval records state that he was a Dairyman before enlisting, the occupation he returned to in 1919. On marrying in 1919, in St Helier, Bernard said that his father was George Gruchy, Mariner. His wife was Doris Constance Statt, daughter of Daniel, of Guernsey
  58. ↑ Served in the Great War as Private, Hampshire Regiment
  59. ↑ Philip was described, once again, as the Guernsey-born son of John, Carpenter
  60. ↑ Farmer
  61. ↑ Citizen and merchant tailor of London (1905). Tailor, then clothier. He settled in England and was in 1891 at 7 Ilminster Gardens, Battersea, shown as a tailor`s foreman cutter, aged 35, born in Jersey, living with his wife Elizabeth, son Sidney , daughter Winifred and a boarder, Charles de Gruchy, aged 17, architectural student: UK Census (1891). In 1901 the family were living at 13 Melody Road, Wandsworth, with a further child, a three-year-old daughter. Alfred was a clothier, tailor, clothier dealer and was described as an employer. In 1911, he was a merchant tailor, living at 26 Mansel Road, Wimbledon, Surrey. The census shows he had been married 27 years, having had, with his wife, three children, one of whom had now died
  62. ↑ Tailor (cutter) in 1911, living with his wife, Gertrude Martha, in Wimbledon: UK Census (1911). In the 1939 England and Wales Register, he was featured as a merchant taylor, military and civil, living with his wife, described as Martha Gertrude, and daughter, in Dorking, Surrey. He served in the Great War as an air mechanic, both in the RAF and Royal Naval Air Service. Probate was granted to his spinster daughter Vivien in 1951: National Probate Calendar
  63. ↑ Draper`s assistant in 1881, living at Tower View, Adolphus had moved to England by 1901. He was probably the Adolphus W Gruchy who was boarding at a house in Portsmouth at the time of the 1911 census, although his age, given as 48, was inaccurate. He was then a commercial traveller and corn dealer, born in Jersey and unmarried. He died at Christchurch, Hampshire, aged 64, in January 1924
  64. ↑ Born at Tower View, St Saviour. Lydia was living there in 1901
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