Descendants of Jean de Gruchy and Elizabeth Le Riche

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Descendants of Jean de Gruchy



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Charles Southwell de Gruchy (1890-1917), Lieutenant, Canadian Field Artillery, killed in action, 1917

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  • 1 Jean de Gruchy (1746- ) m (1784, St Mt) Elizabeth Le Riche, widow in 1803
    • 2 Jean de Gruchy (1785-1863) [1] m 2 (1835, Tr) Elizabeth Remon; 1 (1803, Tr) Susanne Binet ( -1834)
    • 2 Thomas de Gruchy (1789-1859) [2] m (1811, St H) Susanne Picot
      • 3 Thomas de Gruchy (1812- ) [3] m (1836, St H) Marguerite Picot
        • 4 Thomas de Gruchy (1836- ) [4] m Mary Ann Pirouet
          • 5 Thomas Charles de Gruchy (1868-1913) [5] m (1896, St H) Elvina Susanna Elizabeth Payn ( -1927) [6] daughter of Jean (Non-conformist missionary and preacher), son of Daniel
            • 6 Irene Elvina Payn de Gruchy (1897- ) m 1 Charles Winter James Matson; 2 Arthur Casimir Mrowetsynski
            • 6 Clarence Thomas Messervy de Gruchy (1903- ) [7] living 1933
          • 5 Florence Pirouet de Gruchy (1871-1872)
          • 5 Mabel Florence de Gruchy (1873-1933) m Joseph William Sinel
          • 5 Florence Romeril de Gruchy (1877- ) living 1933
        • 4 Marguerite de Gruchy (1840-1875)
        • 4 Emilie de Gruchy (1843- )
        • 4 Charles de Gruchy (1845-1870)
        • 4 Philippe Alfred de Gruchy (1849-1892) [8] m (1872, Deptford) Mary Jane Betts daughter of George
          • 5 Gertrude Mary de Gruchy (1877- ) m (1901, Eng) Robert Henry Gurney
        • 4 George Walter de Gruchy (1855-1884) [9]
      • 3 Susanne de Gruchy (1814-1814)
      • 3 Jean de Gruchy (1815-1880) [10] m (1838, Tr) Esther Godeaux
        • 4 Esther Marie de Gruchy (1839- ) [11]
        • 4 Jean de Gruchy (1841- ) [12]
        • 4 Elizabeth de Gruchy (1843- )
        • 4 Philippe de Gruchy (1846- ) m (1874, Tr) Eleonore Dorey, daughter of François [13]
        • 4 Francois de Gruchy (1848-1851)
        • 4 Charles de Gruchy (1851-1852)
        • 4 Francois William de Gruchy (1856-1927) (St H) [14] m (1881, St Mt) Jane Emma Gallichan
          • 5 Francis Philip de Gruchy (1882-1930) [15] m (1911, St And.rew) Elsie Frederica Dorey daughter of John
            • 6 Francis Philip de Gruchy (1911- ) living 1941 [16]
            • 6 Ronald Francis de Gruchy (1912-1990)
            • 6 Beryl de Gruchy (1913-2011)
            • 6 Robert Philip de Gruchy (1915-1994) [17] m (1938) Dorothy Louise Cullinane (issue: 3 sons, 2 daughters)
            • 6 Peggy de Gruchy
            • 6 Elizabeth (Betty) de Gruchy
          • 5 Emma Jane de Gruchy (1884- ) m (1921, St H) Frederick Potter
          • 5 John Edgar de Gruchy (1888-1949) [18] m (1913, St H) Alice Maud Mary Pinel daughter of John and Eliza Jane Le Boutillier
            • 6 Hazel Maud de Gruchy (1914-2004) m (1939, St Andrew) George Herbert Romeril [19]
          • 5 Florence Elizabeth de Gruchy (1895-1927)
      • 3 Philippe de Gruchy (1818-1872) [20] m (1843, St S) Jeanne Susanne Fauvel (1820-1908) daughter of Philippe Fauvel and Elizabeth Fauvel [21]
        • 4 Jane Eliza de Gruchy (1849- ) m (1869, St S) George Higgs
        • 4 Philip Thomas de Gruchy (1849-1851)
        • 4 Harriet Mary de Gruchy (1851- ) m (1875, Napier, NZ) Robert Henry Robertson
        • 4 John Philip de Gruchy (1853-1872) [22]
        • 4 Louisa Fauvel de Gruchy (1855-1938) m (1874, NZ) William Edwards
        • 4 Alice Georgina de Gruchy (1860- ) m (1876, NZ) Alfred Payne
      • 3 Charles de Gruchy (1820-1850) [23] m (1846, St S) Mary Ann Alexandre (Tr) daughter of François and Jeanne, nee Cabot
        • 4 Charles de Gruchy (1847-1932) [24] m Eliza Le Gros
          • 5 Charles Philip de Gruchy (1888- ) m (1944) Ivy Louise Hotton [25]
          • 5 Clara Mary de Gruchy m (1904, St H) John Alexander Pallot [26]
          • 5 Florence Eliza de Gruchy m (1908, St H) Philippe Binet [27]
          • 5 Louisa Jane de Gruchy m Percy Keegan
        • 4 Philip de Gruchy (1850-1935) [28] m (1878, Eng) Eliza Marshall (1848-1921) daughter of Southwell, auctioneer
          • 5 Lizzie Alexander de Gruchy (1880-1949) (Eng.)) m Horace Perley Adams
          • 5 Philip Marshall de Gruchy (1881-1960) (Que.) [29] m (1908, Montreal) Charlotte Nelson McCallum Ewan ( -1951) [30]
          • 5 Mabel de Gruchy (1883-1932) (Que.) unm.
          • 5 Bertha de Gruchy (1887- ) (Que.) liv. 1960 m (1911, Montreal) George Robert Drennan
          • 5 Charles Southwell de Gruchy (1890-1917) [31]
      • 3 Elizabeth Ollivier de Gruchy (1822-1890) m William Charles Gallichan
      • 3 George de Gruchy (1824- ) [32] m 1 Nancy Mary Le Masurier (1823-1888) (St J > Tr); 2 Anne Gruchy (1841-1899), daughter of Philippe (St C)
        • 4 Ann de Gruchy (1850- ) m (1869, Tr) Philippe Abraham de la Mare
      • 3 Susanne de Gruchy (1827- )
      • 3 Francois Jean de Gruchy (1829- ) [33]m (1849, Tr) Ann Mary Noel
        • 4 François de Gruchy (1849-1891) died in England m (1876, Eng) Rachel Skinner daughter of Charles, mason
        • 4 Edouard de Gruchy (1850-1926) [34] m (Canada) Celine Racicot of Montreal, Canada
          • 5 Eva Rose de Gruchy (1877- ) m (1897, Montreal) Alfred Richard Moore, of Montreal son of George
          • 5 Edward Frank de Gruchy (1878- ) m (1898, NY) Alexandra Mabel Reid
          • 5 E. Douglas de Gruchy (1880- ) of Chicago, Illinois
          • 5 Sarah Allard de Gruchy (1880- ) [35] m 1 (1900) Frank Renaud ( -1907); 2 Placide Demerd
        • 4 Ann Amelie de Gruchy (1853- )
        • 4 Philippe de Gruchy (1855- ) [36] m (1879, St H) Mary Ann Mourant (1850-1929) (St H) daughter of Philippe, farmer (St H)
          • 5 Philip Charles de Gruchy (1881-1947) (Tr > Can) [37]
        • 4 Thomas de Gruchy (1858-1929) [38] m (USA) Marietta Vigenant of Vermont
          • 5 Laura May de Gruchy (1887- ) m (1908 NY State) Albert Dewey of Dundee, New York State
          • 5 Florence de Gruchy ( -1931) [39] m (1926, NY) Elias de Gruchy (below)
        • 4 Louisa Anne de Gruchy (1860-1942) m (1884, Tr) John de la Haye, son of Philippe Josué, proprietor
        • 4 Elise Mary de Gruchy (1861- )
        • 4 Alfred de Gruchy (1863-1863)
        • 4 Emilie Susanne de Gruchy (1866-1940) m (1889, Tr) George Le Cocq (1864-1949) Farmer, son of George
        • 4 Emma Jane de Gruchy (1867- ) m (1889, Tr) Philippe Marett, Farmer, son of Philippe
        • 4 Elie de Gruchy (1870-1872)
        • 4 Elie Renouf de Gruchy (1873- ) [40] m (1903, Montreal) Annie Kollmar daughter of Ernest
        • 4 Ada Jane de Gruchy (1875-1875)
      • 3 Elie de Gruchy (1831- ) Settled in New York in 1852 [41] m 1 (1850, St S) Ann Hepburn daughter of James
        • 4 Ann de Gruchy (1850- )
        • 4 Edwin Philadelphia Thomas de Gruchy (1855- ) (1879, NY) m Hannah McCarthy
          • 5 Elias de Gruchy, died an infant
          • 5 Edwin de Gruchy, of Suffern, NY [42]
      • 2nd wife of Elie de Gruchy (1860, NY) Rachel Jane Anley, daughter of Philippe and Marguerite, nee Binet, of St Helier
        • 4 Susan Rachel de Gruchy (1862- ) m (USA) Walter Thompson
        • 4 Elias John de Gruchy (1864- ) (NY) [43] m 1 (1892, USA) Emma Taber; 2 (1926, NY) Florence de Gruchy ( -1931), daughter of Thomas (above)
          • 5 Frank Savory de Gruchy (1893-1949) (NJ) [44] m (1922, Passaic) Eleanor Marie Ackerman
            • 6 Kenneth Ackerman de Gruchy (1923- ) m (USA) Jean Perdue (descendants in USA)
            • 6 Donald Cuinet de Gruchy (1930-2006) [45] m (1962, Fl., USA) Betty Jane Tate, daughter of James D. (descendants in USA)
        • 4 Mary Marguerite de Gruchy (1866- ) (USA)
    • 2 Philippe de Gruchy (1791- ) [46] m 2 (1850, Tr) Mary Le Bailly; 1 (1811, Tr) Anne Cabot
      • 3 Philippe de Gruchy (1812- ) m (1833, St H) Mary Ann Shirlock
        • 4 Philippe Edouard de Gruchy (1833- ) m (1855, St H) Mary Gilman daughter of Jonathan, Mason
          • 5 Mary Lavinia de Gruchy (1857- )
          • 5 Louisa Fanny de Gruchy (1859-1861)
          • 5 Angelina Elizabeth de Gruchy (1861-1866)
        • 4 Julie Mary Ann de Gruchy (1835-1839)
        • 4 Charles Philippe de Gruchy (1837-1838)
        • 4 Selina Mary Ann de Gruchy (1838- )
        • 4 Lavinia Hamon de Gruchy (1841-1890) m 1 Thomas Hoddenott; [47] 2 (1867, St H) John Francis Curtis [48] son of Richard, of Cornwall
        • 4 Charles Philippe de Gruchy (1842-1848)
        • 4 Delphine Hamon de Gruchy (1844-1845)
        • 4 Matilda Hamon de Gruchy (1846-1855)
        • 4 William Philip de Gruchy (1849-1852)
        • 4 Mary Ann de Gruchy (1855- ) m (1873, St S) John Adams
      • 3 Nancy Jeanneton de Gruchy (1814-1814)
      • 3 Nancy de Gruchy (1816- ) m Charles Gruchy
      • 3 Betsey de Gruchy (1816- )
      • 3 Charles de Gruchy (1820-1868) [49] m (1855, St S) Louisa Vickery (St H) daughter of Thomas, proprietor
      • 3 Susanne de Gruchy (1824-1909) m Thomas Brailey
    • 2 Charles de Gruchy (1794-1861) m (1814, Tr) Marguerite Cabot
      • 3 Marguerite de Gruchy (1815-1875) m (1838, Tr) John Godeaux
      • 3 Rachel de Gruchy (1816- ) m (1840, Tr) Clement Le Sueur
      • 3 Charles de Gruchy (1819-1873) [50] m 1 (1842, Tr) Marie Le Breton; 2 (1849, St Mt) Elizabeth Le Seelleur; 3, (1868, Gr) Mary Elizabeth Le Geyt
        • 4 Marie Anne de Gruchy (1843- ) [51] m (1875, St J) Joseph Querée
        • 4 Elizabeth Delicia de Gruchy (1845- )
        • 4 Jane de Gruchy (1847-1849)
      • 3 Mary de Gruchy (1821- )
      • 3 Elizabeth de Gruchy (1823- )
      • 3 Jean de Gruchy (1826- ) m Mary Ann Picot
        • 4 Jean Daniel de Gruchy (1850-1910) [52]
        • 4 Philippe John de Gruchy (1854-1862)
      • 3 Jeanneton de Gruchy (1828- ) m (1866, Tr) Richard Querée
      • 3 Sophie de Gruchy (1800-1862) m (1851, St S) Jean du Fresne (1826- ) [53]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Of La Contrée des Bouillons, Rozel, mason
  2. ↑ Haute Vue, Rondin, Trinity, blacksmith and farmer, bought La Crown, Rondin, Trinity, from his brother Jean (1816)
  3. ↑ Of Haute Vue, blacksmith and farmer
  4. ↑ La Talboterie House, St Saviour, retired farmer, 1881
  5. ↑ Described on marriage (1896) as gentleman. In 1901 he was a schoolmaster. He predeceased his wife, who was described in 1927 as a widow
  6. ↑ Music teacher, 1901
  7. ↑ Merchant Navy
  8. ↑ Tailor, Settled in Worcestershire, England
  9. ↑ Smith
  10. ↑ Carpenter; he lived in Trinity, where he was Vingtenier of Augres 1860-78. He was also the Parish Clerk
  11. ↑ Living with her brother, Francis William and his family, in 1911, unmarried
  12. ↑ Little is known of Jean except that he was alive, at home, in 1851
  13. ↑ Grocer in St Helier. St Helier Census, 1911, shows Eleonore as a widow
  14. ↑ Printer, living in Roussell Street
  15. ↑ Master Baker. Great War Sergeant, Royal Garrison Artillery, MM
  16. ↑ Married, with issue
  17. ↑ OV. Insurance agent, 1941
  18. ↑ Plumber in 1911, who had started his own business at First Tower by 1924
  19. ↑ Parents of Dr Mike Romeril (1941-2024), the States of Jersey environmentalist
  20. ↑ Snow Hill, St Helier, Builder, employing eight men (1851) and grocer; died in a demolition accident, Rouge Bouillon (1872)
  21. ↑ Emigrated to NZ with daughters after husband's death
  22. ↑ Died at sea on voyage to Labrador, 1872. The Chronique de Jersey, (11th December 1872) reports: "Death at sea aboard Sharston (Capt. Le Gros), Messrs de Quetteville and Co., on journey to Labrador, a son of Philip de Gruchy, former grocer of Snow Hill, fell into the sea and drowned"
  23. ↑ Blacksmith
  24. ↑ Farmed in St Helier, but buried in his native Trinity
  25. ↑ Charles Philippe was of Ivy Gate, St John, where he was farming in 1941
  26. ↑ Of Mon Plaisir
  27. ↑ Of Trinity, farmer, son of Philip
  28. ↑ Of Brixton, Surrey, draper (1878). Settled in Montreal, Canada, Manufacturing Agent (1901)
  29. ↑ Manufacturing Agent, on own account (1931 Montreal census), travelling to and from England
  30. ↑ No surviving issue
  31. ↑ MC; Lieutenant, Canadian Field Artillery, formerly assistant engineer, Halifax Ocean Terminals. Died of wounds 18 July 1917
  32. ↑ Sutherland House, Croiserie, Trinity, Builder. George was perhaps a Methodist, as neither of his marriages have been found in Anglican records. Church burial records name him as husband in each case, confirmed by censuses. That of 1891 gives Anne`s place of birth as St Clement
  33. ↑ Of Beechfield Farm, Croiserie, Trinity , Vingtenier of Croiserie 1874-77. He had formerly bought, in 1849, a house on the north side of the Rue du Câtel, Trinity, where his son Edouard was born. Although he and his wife moved away to St Martin, before returning to Trinity, his 1849 purchase was not without interest. The house was situated on the the Fief de Gruchy. Their son Edouard thus became the last member of the widespread de Gruchy family to have been born on that part of the original fief
  34. ↑ Revd. He became an active Christian aged 14, becoming soon afterwards a Sunday school teacher. Aged 17, he was a Jersey local preacher and left, later that year, for North America, where he learned the English language. Feeling himself called to work among the French in Montreal, he did so for three years, before being ordained in 1876, in Quebec. He was subsequently Pastor of the First French Methodist Church, in Montreal. He was afterwards a Minister of the United Church of Canada in St Theodore and Montreal. De Gruchy was author of Journey through Nineteen Centuries of the Christian Church. He died at Bishop`s Crossing: William Cochrane (ed.), The Canadian Album: Men of Canada (1895), 121; Family information
  35. ↑ Possibly adopted
  36. ↑ Farmer on marriage in 1879, and in the 1891 Trinity Census at La Vallette, Croiserie, with his wife and son Philip (9), and unmarried sister-in-law, Rachel Mourant (51). She and her sister were born in St Helier. Philippe or his wife apparently thought he had actually been born in Trinity and had this entered on the census form. They were all living in 1901 in St Helier, at 7 Duhamel Place, with Philippe then working at his father's original trade of stonemason. At the time of the 1911 census Philippe was in the General Hospital, recording his age and place of birth correctly as 56 and St Martin. At home, 12 Chevalier Road, his wife stated they had been married 31 years and had one child, still living. Rachel Mourant still lived with the couple. Philippe stated on marriage that his father, François Jean, was a blacksmith, when he had been a mason at Crown Villa, Rondin and was settling into a new career as a farmer. François Jean was brought up at Haute Vue, where his father was a farmer and blacksmith.
  37. ↑ Grocer`s assistant in 1901. Philip, unmarried, migrated to Quebec, Canada, in August 1905, giving his occupation as Grocer. He died in Vancouver
  38. ↑ Doctor of Theology (Newton Theological Institution, 1886). He was ordained in 1885 and started in the ministry at Newton Castle and elsewhere in Massachusetts, before serving as Baptist Minister in Rhode Island. He was then minister at Scranton, Pennsylvania and Penn Yan, Medina, Ticonderoga and Skaneateles, all in New York State, USA. His obituary in The Penn Yan Democrat on 24 January 1929 records that when he died in hospital on Saturday 19 January at 9.30 in the evening, his wife, who was staying in Dundee with their elder daughter, was taken ill and died within six hours. Both were 71
  39. ↑ Teacher and, until 1925, Head of Modern Languages, Nutley High School
  40. ↑ Settled in Montreal, Canada
  41. ↑ Served in the New York State National Guard, 1863-1890, Sergeant
  42. ↑ This line had become extinct in the United States, before 8 December 1981: Letter from Donald de Gruchy
  43. ↑ Of Passaic, NJ, 1906
  44. ↑ Frank Savory de Gruchy was in 1918-1919, Ensign, U.S. Naval Auxiliary Reserve. In peace-time, he was a Credit Manager, Graybar Electric Company, New York: The Record, Hackensack, New Jersey (21st April 1949)
  45. ↑ Educated at Kenyon Coll., Ohio, and New York University, Don was a former Weather Liaison officer, 96th Bomb Wing and, in 1962, the Washington representative for the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation: The Dothan Eagle, (19/8/1962), 20; U.S. Marriage Index, Florida, (11/1962); U.S. Obituaries
  46. ↑ Croiserie, Trinity, Farmer
  47. ↑ Gunner, Royal Artillery, originally of Bath
  48. ↑ Bombadier, Royal Artillery
  49. ↑ Master mariner. Captain Charles de Gruchy was from 1865 owner of the 232 ton brig Laviniam Robert Youlton was the ship`s master. De Gruchy was drowned off Lundy Island, on 23 August 1868. His widow, Louisa Vickery, sold the vessel later that year to Youlton. De Gruchy`s will, proved on 26 September 1868, left to his wife a house in Roseville Street backing on to Green Street Cemetery and another house in St Saviour`s Road
  50. ↑ Sailor, shoemaker, grocer and spirit vendor
  51. ↑ At the time of her marriage, Marie Anne gave her father`s occupation as master mariner. He was at sea until the age of 30
  52. ↑ Jean Daniel de Gruchy, absent from most UK and Jersey censuses, died in Islington, Greater London
  53. ↑ Sailor
  • The Revd. Edouard de Gruchy (1850-1926), of The United Church of Canada, Montreal; Minister and Author
    The Revd. Edouard de Gruchy (1850-1926), of The United Church of Canada, Montreal; Minister and Author
  • Douglas de Gruchy of Montreal, son of Edouard; aged 11
    Douglas de Gruchy of Montreal, son of Edouard; aged 11
  • The Revd. Dr. Thomas de Gruchy (1858-1929), of New York; pictured in 1903
    The Revd. Dr. Thomas de Gruchy (1858-1929), of New York; pictured in 1903
  • Elie de Gruchy (1831- ), generation 3, formerly of Trinity, who settled in New York
    Elie de Gruchy (1831- ), generation 3, formerly of Trinity, who settled in New York
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