Descendants of Philippe Gruchy and Marie Le Cornu

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Descendants of Philippe Gruchy



This tree has been researched by Guy Dixon to help in eliminating some of the Gruchys who have yet to be placed within local Jersey, or other, genealogies. Details relating to John James Gruchy, generation 4, and his father, Philip, owe much to Val Ford, in Gruchy: Footprints in the Sands of Time, (no date), whilst the dates of John James`s and Alejandra`s children have been received from online sources

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  • 1 Philippe Gruchy (1750?- ) (Tr > St L) m (1783, St S) Marie Le Cornu (St H)
    • 2 Elizabeth Gruchy (1783- ) (St L)
    • 2 Susanne Elizabeth Gruchy (1785- ) (St L)
    • 2 Esther Gruchy (1787- ) (St L) [1]
    • 2 Jeanne Gruchy (1789- ) (St L) [2]
    • 2 Philippe Gruchy (1791- ) (St L)
    • 2 Jean Gruchy (1794-1871) (St L > St H) [3] m (1819, St H) Nancy Ahier (1799-1837) (St L)
      • 3 Jean Gruchy (1820-by 1826) (St H)
      • 3 Anne Gruchy (1821- ) (St H) [4]
      • 3 Nancy Gruchy (1823- ) (St H) [5]
      • 3 Jean Gruchy (1826- ) (St H) [6] m (1870, St S) Ann Susan Renouf, daughter of Edouard (St L)
      • 3 Philippe Gruchy (1/1829- ) (St H) [7] m 1 (Wesleyan?) Jane Le Gros (1830-by 1868); 2 (1868, Westminster) Marie Therese Gruchy (1826-1880), daughter of Peter (St J) [8]
        • 4 Mary Ann Gruchy (1855- ) (Yks.) m John Le Masurier (St My) [9]
        • 4 John James Gruchy (1861-1938) (Yks. > Guatemala > USA) [10] m Alejandra Lopez (1881-1970) (Guatemala)
          • 5 Mary A. Gruchy (1902- ) (Guatemala > USA)
          • 5 Gregoria A. Gruchy (1904-1988) (ibid. > USA)
          • 5 John Philip Gruchy (1906-1984) (ibid. > USA) [11]
          • 5 Wilhelmina Gruchy (1908-2000) (ibid. > USA) m Walter Paxton Miller sr. (1909-1990) (USA)
          • 5 Marguerite Gruchy (1910- ) (ibid.) m Unknown Entrician of Wesson
          • 5 Samuel M. Gruchy (1912-1916) (ibid.)
          • 5 Josephine Gruchy (1914-1983) (ibid. > USA) m William D. Paxton (1910-1980) (Brookhaven, USA)
          • 5 David F. Gruchy (1916-2009) (ibid. > Wesson, USA)
          • 5 Daniel J. Gruchy (1919-2000) (USA) liv. Wesson, USA
      • 3 Jane Gruchy (1831- ) (St H) twin [12]
      • 3 Francois Gruchy (1831- ) (St H) twin
      • 3 Esther Gruchy (1833- ) (St H) [13]
      • 3 Elizabeth Gruchy (12/1834- ) (St H)
      • 3 Marie Ann Gruchy (1837- ) (St H) [14]
    • 2 Francois Gruchy (1798- ) (St L)


Notes and references

  1. ↑ Godparents: Charles Gruchy and Esther Gruchy
  2. ↑ Godparents: Francis Corbel and Jeanne Sorel. Three of her siblings had Corbel godparents and two had Canivet godparents
  3. ↑ Farmer of 13 acres (about 32 vergees) within close proximity to the property named West Hill, Mont a L`Abbe, St Helier, where he had settled. The 1871 census gives St Lawrence as the parish of his birth and his age as 78 years; he died within months. On marriage, he is wrongly described as de Gruchy
  4. ↑ Jean Ahier and Maitresse de Ste Croix were her godparents. Four other de Ste Croixs were godparents to her siblings, although the degree of kinship was not given in the register
  5. ↑ Nancy was living at home unmarried, in 1871, although her age was under-stated, as it was in 1861, helping her widowed father, whilst next door, doubtless within the same farmhouse, was her married brother Jean, with his wife, Ann
  6. ↑ Farmer in 1871, next door to West Hill, Mont a L`Abbe
  7. ↑ Schoolmaster. He was named after his paternal grandfather, with Philippe de Ste Croix as his godfather, who was also godfather to Philippe`s sister Jane, in 1831. In the Jersey census of 1851, he was an Assistant Schoolmaster but had become a teacher by 1861, having moved to England. The 1861 UK Census (Richmond, Yorkshire) has him as “Master of the Richmond Wesleyan School,” the household consisting of Philip himself, his wife Jane, and two children, Mary Ann and John James, aged respectively 5 years, and 1 month. Philip married as a widower in 1868, so his first wife, Jane, nee Le Gros, will have died between 1861 and 1868. In 1871, Philip and Mary Therese, respectively a schoolmaster and schoolmistress, were living in Bodmin, Cornwall, with the two children of his first marriage. Philip features, back in Jersey, in the 1881 census, St Mary. He is once again described as a widower, Marie Therese having died in the autumn of 1880, after their return to Jersey, and been buried at St Ouen`s Methodist Church, Leoville. Philip is now described as “Formerly [a] Schoolmaster” and was living, as had no doubt his late wife, with his married daughter Mary Ann, and her husband John Le Masurier, a Farmer. Within the same household was Philip`s son, John James, see below
  8. ↑ Farmer
  9. ↑ Farmer, of Richmond House, named after the birthplace of his wife
  10. ↑ OV; he went briefly to Oxford University and was an “Indian Civil Service Probationer” at the time of the St Mary, Jersey, UK Census (1881). His proud father apparently bought him “A Passage to India” to read on his journey east. Instead, he absconded to the United States of America. In St Louis, Missouri, he worked for a Leather manufacturing company, became in 1885 a U.S. Citizen, and was sent by his employers to represent their interests in Guatemala, where he turned, instead, to farming. After time spent as a farm manager, he set up a dairy farming business importing, from about 1895, Jersey cattle. He was, in fact, the first there to import this breed, which now accounts for over 60% of all registered cattle in that country: Val Ford, Gruchy: Footprints in the Sands of Time, (no date), 41. Val Ford writes that he then set his mind to improving local corn crops by selective breeding, producing the Maiz de Gruche. Moving, once again, the family settled in 1916 in Wesson, Mississipi
  11. ↑ In 1938, of the United States Navy, Pacific Fleet (San Diego)
  12. ↑ Living at home, unmarried, as was her sister Eliza (Elizabeth), in 1861
  13. ↑ Francois Gruchy, perhaps her uncle of this name, was her godfather. Esther was living in Richmond, Yorkshire, with her brother Philip and his family, in 1861
  14. ↑ Susanne Ahier was her godmother
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