Descendants of Philippe de Gruchy and Elizabeth Le Geyt

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Abraham de Gruchy (1780-1864) circa 1840
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- 1 Philippe de Gruchy (1741-1804) [1] m (1766, St S) Elizabeth Le Geyt (1745-1826), daughter of Abraham [2] and Anne Alexandre [3]
- 2 Philippe de Gruchy (1767-1831) [4] m (1789, St S) Elizabeth Binet, daughter of Edouard of Trinity and Elizabeth Binet [5]
- 3 Philippe de Gruchy (1789-by 1832)
- 3 Moïse de Gruchy (1791-1814) [6]
- 3 Abraham de Gruchy (1793-by 1832) [7]
- 3 Jean de Gruchy (1796-by 1832)
- 3 Edouard de Gruchy (1798-1835) [8]
- 3 Elizabeth de Gruchy (1801-1874) m (1835, St H) Thomas de Gruchy (1803- ) [9]
- 3 Elie de Gruchy (1803-1866) [10] m (1843, St H) Jeanne Le Geyt (1824-1900), his cousin, daughter of Philippe, [11] and Rachel de Gruchy
- 4 Elie Philippe de Gruchy (1844-1869) [12]
- 4 Jeanne Marguerite de Gruchy (1846- ) [13] m (1870, St S) Thomas Gaudin [14]
- 4 Lydia Jane de Gruchy (1847-1919) m (1870, St S) William John Ogier ( -1929) [15]
- 4 Louisa Matilda de Gruchy (1849-1866)
- 3 Charles de Gruchy (1804-1805)
- 3 Marie de Gruchy (1806-1851) m (1829, St H) Jean Picot [16]
- 3 Marguerite de Gruchy (1808-1888) m (1848, St S) François Ahier [17]
- 3 Anne de Gruchy (1810-1882) m (1830, St Mt) Elie Whitley [18]
- 2 Elizabeth de Gruchy (1770-1807) m (1789, St S) Philippe Alexandre of Augrès, Trinity [19]
- 2 Jeanne de Gruchy (1772-1788)
- 2 Anne de Gruchy (1775-1848) [20]
- 2 Jean de Gruchy (1776-1788)
- 2 Elie de Gruchy (1778-1793)
- 2 Abraham de Gruchy (1780-1864) [21] m (1808, St P) Marie Le Brocq (1784-1867), daughter of William [22] and Jeanne Le Feuvre of La Hougue
- 3 William Philippe de Gruchy (1809-1881) [23] m (1837, Camberwell) Louisa Chapman, daughter and eventual heiress of Charles William [24] and Louisa Burrell, daughter of Charles, of Denmark Hill, Camberwell [25]
- 4 William Laurence de Gruchy (1838-1920) [26] m (1864, St Luke) Augusta Chambers Smith, [27] daughter and heiress of Jabez (1811-1871) [28] and Charlotte Ward (1807-1894), of Millbrook Lodge, St Lawrence
- 5 Maud Irene de Gruchy (1865-1957) [29] m (1886, St B) Ernest Briard (1859-1906) [30]
- 5 Guy Fortescue Burrell de Gruchy (1867-1940) [31] m (1916, Eng) Catherine May Miller, [32] younger daughter and co-heiress of Henry [33] and Ada Percival Nicholls [34] daughter of Hawkins, formerly of Toft House, Lincolnshire [35]
- 5 Murray Laurence de Gruchy (1868-1868)
- 5 Violet Augusta de Gruchy (1872-1884)
- 4 Philippe Henry de Gruchy (1843-1899) [40] m 1, (1866, St H) Elizabeth Eales Frankum ( -1873); 2, (1875, St S) Emma Elizabeth Le Quesne (1848-1931), daughter of William [41]
- 4 William Laurence de Gruchy (1838-1920) [26] m (1864, St Luke) Augusta Chambers Smith, [27] daughter and heiress of Jabez (1811-1871) [28] and Charlotte Ward (1807-1894), of Millbrook Lodge, St Lawrence
- 3 Marie Anne de Gruchy (1811-1817)
- 3 Philippe de Gruchy (1812-1889) [48]
- 3 Jean de Gruchy (1816-1862) [49]
- 3 George de Gruchy (1819-1893) [50] m (1851, Eng) Mary Anne Burrill, daughter of John of Masham, Yorkshire [51]
- 4 George John de Gruchy (1853-1875) [52]
- 4 Henry de Gruchy (1854-1934) [53] m (1888, Montgomery) Harriet Ellen Charlotte Monck, daughter of George Gustavus, JP, and Harriet, nee Horne, daughter of Sir William [54]
- 5 George Henry Adrian de Gruchy (1889-1889)
- 5 Beatrice Harriet de Gruchy (1891- ) m (1926, Chelsea) Rev Harold Lucas [55]
- 5 Henry Eustace Bligh de Gruchy (1897-1981) MC [56] m (1934, Ceylon) Barbara Blanke (1908-2003) of Connecticut (USA), daughter of Everett [57] and Harriet Isabella, nee Cutler
- 6 Henry de Gruchy (1939-2014, USA) (no issue)
- 6 Barbara Anne de Gruchy (1943-2009) (USA)
- 4 Mary Louisa de Gruchy (1856-1936) m (1881, Eng.) John Bligh Monck (1855-1918) [58]
- 4 Elizabeth Lucinda de Gruchy (1857-1947) m (1898, Eng) Kerchever Tillyard ( -1947) [59]
- 4 Charles William de Gruchy (1860-1944) [60] m (1903, Eng) Maria Sybil Watkins ( -1931), daughter of Lewis Powell
- 4 Constance Annie de Gruchy (1861-1957, Ind) [61] m (1894, Bombay) John Sempill Lambert [62]
- 4 Herbert Burrill de Gruchy (1864-1864)
- 4 Herbert James Burrill de Gruchy (1865-1866)
- 4 Alice Frances de Gruchy (1867-1867)
- 3 Thomas de Gruchy (1821-1822)
- 3 William Philippe de Gruchy (1809-1881) [23] m (1837, Camberwell) Louisa Chapman, daughter and eventual heiress of Charles William [24] and Louisa Burrell, daughter of Charles, of Denmark Hill, Camberwell [25]
- 2 Matthieu de Gruchy (1783-1787)
- 2 Charles de Gruchy (1784-1788)
- 2 Matthieu de Gruchy (1789-1866) [66] m 1 (1811, St S) Françoise Le Cappelain (1792-1872), daughter of Jean (St P); 2 (1826, London) Hannah Bateman (1806-1882) (Aus)
- 3 Matthieu de Gruchy (1814-1851) [67] m (1847, St H) Jane Eliza Le Capelain, daughter and heiress of François (St H) and Jeanne Cabot
- 4 William de Gruchy (1850-1937) [68]
- 3 Mary de Gruchy (1817- ) m (1843, St H) Daniel Norman [69]
- 3 Matthieu de Gruchy (1814-1851) [67] m (1847, St H) Jane Eliza Le Capelain, daughter and heiress of François (St H) and Jeanne Cabot
- 2 Philippe de Gruchy (1767-1831) [4] m (1789, St S) Elizabeth Binet, daughter of Edouard of Trinity and Elizabeth Binet [5]
Notes and references
- ↑ of Maufant Farm, St Saviour
- ↑ Of Pigneaux, St Saviour
- ↑ Of Longueville, St Saviour
- ↑ Philippe bought a house and land in 1803 to the north of Maufant Farm and incorporated the land into that inherited by him in 1804, as eldest son, on his father`s death. This was described in 1851 as totalling 45 vergées. In 1824 he bought the house adjoining, and to the south of, the nearby Calvinist Chapel. In addition to property owning, Philippe may have been one of the two master mariners of this name living at the start of the 19th century, and co-owner of the 60-ton sloop, Young Eliza, which was lost in January 1809 off La Tour de Rozel
- ↑ Of Les Côtils, Rozel, Trinity
- ↑ Mariner. He died abroad
- ↑ Awarded prize in boys' Militia review in 1808. Died abroad. Abraham, who was of St Saviour and nephew of A. de Gruchy, was almoner of St Saviour, 1822-3, but disappeared from his parish shortly afterwards. The family`s neighbour, Jeanneton Beaugié, having given birth out of wedlock to a son whom she named Abraham de Gruchy (1824-1843), may have had something to do with this. From his father's partage in 1832, it is evident that Abraham had died by then, without [lawful] issue. This applied also to his brothers Philippe, Moise and Jean
- ↑ Farmer; heir of his father`s Maufant property in a partage dated 7 January 1832. His initials are engraved there: EDGC 1832. The Chronique de Jersey, (Saturday 8 May 1824), reported a case before the Royal Court in which Edouard was charged by the colonel of the East Regiment of Militia, with "insubordinate conduct under arms". Witnesses were heard, but were not able to bring evidence of any act of insubordination, other than his uniform not always being exactly as it should. The charge was dismissed
- ↑ Vingtenier of Maufant, 1856-
- ↑ Of Laurel Lands, Maufant (1844). He was a master mariner, employed on ships owned by François Hocquard. Marriage in 1843 led to his retirement from the sea the following year. Despite being a sixth son, Elie inherited all of his late father`s land, as heir in 1839 of his brother Edouard, the fifth son. In 1844 he built Laurel Lands, the choice of name marking his political allegiance, on a field he owned on the east side of the Maufant main road. In 1848 he bought from his brother-in-law, François Ahier, the adjoining farm, with its 26 vergées. He thus owned, with his late father's 45 vergées, 71 vergées of farmland, with a rates assessment of 331 quartiers. He was a rates assessor in 1864 but died two years later. A photograph of him, seated, with his son Elie Philippe standing behind the chair, shows him to have been a stocky man of medium height
- ↑ Master mariner
- ↑ OV, BSc (Caen); a medical student. He died from an illness contracted when furthering his studies at the Sorbonne, before becoming a doctor. A photograph of him, in the album of the late Miss Maud Ogier, his niece, shows him to have been a tall, thin, young man
- ↑ Engraved on the north extension of La Maitrerie, Queruée, St Martin: 18 TG ♥ JMdeG 92
- ↑ Deputy of St Martin, 1890-95. Issue: Louisa Jane Gaudin ( -1941), the eldest daughter and heir m Walter Arthur Stocker ( -1941) of The Cedars, Flicquet; Lt-Colonel Militia, commanding the Jersey contingent, 1915, Flanders; and Lydia Madge Gaudin m Walter Collis Gruchy of Bishopstown, Trinity
- ↑ Solicitor, Capt Militia
- ↑ Of Retreat Farm, Maufant
- ↑ Of Maufant. There was no issue of this, his second, marriage
- ↑ Of Haie Fleurie, St Martin. Owner and master of the cutters Anne and Eliza, (1836-51) and Brilliant (1840- )
- ↑ Parents of Philippe and Charles Alexandre, master mariners and shipowners: see Carré and Alexandre, Shipowners 1832-1852
- ↑ Known, affectionately, as "Tante Nancy"
- ↑ Founder of A de Gruchy and Company (1810); Banker's agent (1825-1841-); banker, (1864: National Probate Calendar), property and land owner, merchant and shipowner in the Canadian fisheries, (1827-1854)
- ↑ Of The Yews, St Peter, Procureur du Bien Public, 1804
- ↑ Merchant (as above, 1854-1881) and banker (1863-1881); partner in De Gruchy, Renouf, Clement and Company of Newfoundland and Jersey (1863-1881), whose fleet consisted, in 1877, of 23 vessels. Apart from his native Jèrriais, he spoke fluent French and English, and had learnt, when a boy in the 1820s, from Spanish Constitutional exiles, their language, in which he was fluent. As much of his shipping firm`s business was with Spanish America, this was a considerable asset. He was on the Reservoir Planning Committee in 1848, and in 1862 on the Committee of the Jersey Chamber of Commerce. In 1867, he was on the Committee for the Restoration of the Town Church. He was one of the original backers of the Jersey Eastern Railway Company and was Constable of St Saviour, 1872-1878
- ↑ Of Camberwell, Surrey, Stockbroker (1818), formerly Marine Insurance Broker (1809) at Lloyd's Coffee House, which became eventually Lloyd's of London. A talk by the author of these notes, entitled Our First Englishwoman (Louisa Chapman), was delivered to the Channel Islands Family History Society on 27 February 2012 and summarised by Frank Le Blancq in The Journal, (CIFHS), Number 134, Volume IX, April 2012. The subject included biographical sketches of members of the Burrell family of London, including Percy Burrell, a civil engineer working in 19th century South America, who was caught up in, and interned during, the war between Brazil and Paraguay. It also featured the "First Englishwoman's" grandmaternal family, Richardson of London. Members of this family had been employed almost continuously from 1754 until 1948 in India, in the Honourable East India Company`s Service and the Indian Army, two of whom attained the rank of general. Details of a small part of this family, being that of the wife of Charles Welsted Richardson of the Bengal Light Cavalry, have been published online at https://www.speedy.co.nz/recollections/
- ↑ Founder of the City of London auction house, Charles Burrell and Sons (1782)
- ↑ Of Rochebois, St Aubin; Barrister-at-Law (Gray`s Inn), antiquary and banker, Captain Militia, Constable of St Helier, Jurat, co-founder of La Société Jersiaise. Laurence, as he was called, was educated at Rugby and Gray`s Inn. He founded in January 1873 La Société Jersiaise, in conjunction with his friend, the future Jurat Augustus Asplet Le Gros, to whom he was related by marriage through the Hortons of La Fosse. He devoted many years to collating and annotating the French and Latin texts of L'Ancienne Coutume de Normandie, the 13th century code upon which Jersey law is based. His work, published in 1881, was for many generations one of the principal sources of reference for Jersey`s legal fraternity and was adopted as a Law text-book by Caen University. Further publications included papers on religious edifices in Jersey, land measures in the Channel Islands, church life in Jersey, (which he wrote under the pseudonym of Caesariensis) and Jersey, My Reminiscences, (Jersey Society in London, 1915). He was, before 1886, one of three benefactors of the church in his adoptive parish of St Brelade, defraying "a third [each] of the cost of the total restoration of the [Fishermen`s] Chapel: the other thirds being borne by Miss Le Couteur, of Belle Vue, and Mr G. de Quetteville of Noirmont". See also Balleine, G R, A Biographical Dictionary of Jersey.
- ↑ Authoress of two novels, Lalage (1876) and Octavia`s Lovers (1880) and of a volume of verse, Under the Hawthorn (1893). The de Gruchy and Briard connection with the Fortescues was derived from Augusta`s Huntingdonshire family. See, also, Rosemary Hampton, "Edward Burne-Jones and Augusta de Gruchy", in ABSJ (1979), 301-309
- ↑ Silk Mercer (1851), Gentleman (1857) and Proprietor of Houses (1861): Censuses and Will: D/Y/A/36/21 (16/11/1857, proved 30/10/1871)
- ↑ Of Bulwark House, St Aubin. Maud also inherited in 1897 Millbrook Lodge, near Mont Félard, which had been built for her maternal grandfather in 1864 on former dune land, with sea views to the south, over St Aubin`s Bay. This she sold in 1921
- ↑ OV; Capt Militia
- ↑ Seigneur of Noirmont (1909-1940), formerly Brazilian Export and Import Merchant; Medieval historian of Jersey; Constable of St Brelade and Jurat. President and benefactor of La Société Jersiaise; ornithologist. See A Biographical Dictionary of Jersey
- ↑ For some details of the de Gruchys` life during the German Occupation, see Noirmont Manor
- ↑ Twin brother of Sir Francis Norie Miller, Bart of Cleeve; Liberal National MP for Perth and Justice of the Peace (Co. Perth). Both sons of the latter fought in the Great War; one was killed on active service in 1918 and the other, a Captain in The Black Watch, was awarded the Military Cross. The family was connected by marriage to Field Marshal Earl Roberts of Kandahar, VC, the British Commander-in-Chief during the South African War. His great-nephew, Mrs de Gruchy`s cousin, Sir Euan Miller, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, DL, was the family`s most successful soldier. He served in the Great War, being awarded the Military Cross in 1918, commanded the 2nd Battalion, (60th) King`s Royal Rifle Corps at the Siege of Calais (1940), was ADC to King George VI, 1946-1948, commanded a division in Hanover, 1948-1949 and was Chief of Staff, Middle East Land Forces, 1949-51, before becoming Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War
- ↑ Grand-daughter of William Percival (1778-1849) FRCS of Northampton, who was appointed Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons on the creation of the Fellowship, in 1843. A cousin was the unfortunate G.O.C. Malaya, who surrendered Singapore, in February 1942
- ↑ Afterwards of Seething Lane, London, Wine Merchant. In June 1810 the father of Mr Nicholls, when riding home one evening from Stamford, Lincolnshire, was accosted by a highwayman, bearing an extremely large cudgel, who seized the reins of his horse and demanded his money. Nicholls handed over his wallet, whereupon the thief carefully examined the contents. On being told that this was all the money Nicholls had to assist him on a journey, the man handed back some of the money and turned to make his departure. Nicholls, however, called him back, requesting the wallet itself be returned. The man agreed, saying "There it is; and here is a ten-pound bill too, more than I want", as a goodwill gesture: The Universal Magazine, June 1810. The comparative value of the money handed back as being surplus to the highwayman`s needs, would have been about £550 in 2017
- ↑ Served in the Army Pay Corps during WW11, before settling in Nottingham. He had a flair for languages, principally French and Spanish but, being chronically shy, did not enjoy speaking them. He undertook, though, translation work at the time of the United Kingdom`s preparations for entering the Common Market. He was an able writer of short stories, but was considerably hindered by a notable degree of autism and lifelong, chronic asthma. He never married
- ↑ Dame de Noirmont. Her godfather was her father`s boyhood friend, R. R. Marett. She was educated at Godolphin and the Jersey Ladies College and was a Civil Defence Light Rescue Squad (Mechanised Transport Corps) ambulance driver in Lambeth during the Blitz of London. Her worst memory was helping to extricate dismembered bodies of small children from the ruins of a bombed junior school and then having to drive them all to a mortuary. After the blitz, she was a WRNS driver at Dover, when her windscreen was blown out by enemy gunfire. She refused a replacement on the grounds that without one, "it cannot be blown out again." She was a poetess, whose work is intended eventually for publication
- ↑ Major, The Sherwood Foresters. For brief details of `Bill` Dixon`s army career and for the history of a section of his family, see https://www.maturin.org.uk/Anne-Johnston-1753/
- ↑ Lt-Colonel, Border Regiment. Norman Bellamy was educated at Sherborne and the R.M.C. Sandhurst. His career provides an example of the range of experience then available to British soldiers. Before WW2, he served in north-west and central India, China (in defence of the Shanghai Settlement) and Aden. During the war, he served in France, where he was Mentioned in Despatches (1940), Egypt and the North African desert, Italy and the former Yugoslavia. On retirement, he became a Fruit Farmer in Kent, before moving to his wife`s property Rochebois, in Jersey
- ↑ OV. Co-owner and then manager, A de Gruchy and Company; banker, Abraham de Gruchy and Sons (1878-1886); Major, Militia. Donor in 1880 of "The De Gruchy Windows" in the north wall of St Clement`s Parish Church, where his cousin, Daniel Matthew Lempriere was then Rector. A memorial exists to Philip Henry de Gruchy`s first wife, in the form of a stained glass window, featuring both de Gruchy and Frankum arms, in the west wall of St Simon`s Church, St Helier. He was a keen yachtsman
- ↑ Of Balmoral Terrace, St Helier
- ↑ BA (Lond.) Educated at Avranches, France, and then at Richmond, Surrey (now closed). He settled in Wokingham, Berkshire and was a Certified accountant in London
- ↑ MRCVS; of the Ministry of Agriculture`s South Eastern Agricultural College, Wye. Educated at Christ`s Hospital (Blue-coat School), he was a Lieutenant, Royal Berkshire Regiment, during WW2, serving in India and elsewhere. During a school holiday, when he was 16, he had occasion to travel by rail to London to a fancy-dress party, wearing his grandfather`s Jersey Militia uniform. An elderly and distinguished looking fellow traveller who had been eyeing him with some amusement, enquired politely, with a straight face: "Tell me, major, what exactly is your regiment?"
- ↑ Lieut-General, IAMS; Director-General, Indian Medical Service
- ↑ MIMechE, FInstPet.; formerly 2nd Lieutenant, REME, WW2, afterwards a Ministry of Defence Research Engineer. Educated at Uppingham, John de Gruchy was in 1956, Assistant Experimental Officer, Admiralty Engineering Laboratories and in 1977, was transferred from being Professional and Technology Officer Grade 1, Department of Energy, to the post of Engineering Inspector: The Chartered Engineer Vol. 3-4, 58 (1956) and Papers by Command, Vol 14, 4 (House of Commons, 1977), respectively. He and his wife retired to Shaftesbury
- ↑ British Red Cross nurse, 1906, in China, at the International Settlement, Shanghai. Sister, British Red Cross (1914), France; Sister, Queen Alexandra`s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (1915-19), serving at Mudros in Greece, Egypt and the United Kingdom. She was in 1919, Sister at Aubrey House (War) Auxiliary Hospital, Kensington, under the auspices of the British Red Cross, and then, in 1920, was Matron, Ferox Hall (War) Auxiliary Hospital for Officers, Tonbridge, to which she returned in WW2, serving there 1940-1946, in the same capacity. Hilda, as she was called, retired to Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, where her ashes are interred
- ↑ Interpreter, Polish Red Cross, 1919-1921, then Interpreter, League of Nations. A gifted linguist, she spoke fluent French, Italian, German, Polish and some Russian. She lived latterly in Sussex
- ↑ Of The Grove and Little Grove; draper, shipowner (1864-1886) and banker (1878-1886). His arms are engraved above the pedestrian entrance at Little Grove, Rue de Haut, St Lawrence
- ↑ Merchant. He was, with his brother William, on the Reservoir Planning Committee in 1848. He died on Christmas morning 1862, from consumption
- ↑ MA (Oxon). Ordained deacon 1842, and priest 1843. Curate of Whilton, Northamptonshire, 1842-53; Rector of Little Bealings, Suffolk, 1854-70; Vicar of Stoke St Millboro, Shropshire, 1871-1893
- ↑ Son of the Rev Joseph Burrill, formerly of Masham, Rector of Upper Broughton, Nottinghamshire
- ↑ Insurance broker in London. Disinterested in his occupation, he visited Le Brocq cousins farming near Rimouski, in Canada, and decided to settle there, buying a farm at Milby, near Lennoxville, Quebec. He was killed there as a result of a riding accident
- ↑ Intended for the Church, Henry went instead to sea and became a clipper captain, sailing Sierra Morena, Sierra Blanca, and Sierra Ventana to and from Australia and the Far East - see Jean, J Stories of Jersey`s Ships, 136-140. He died at Steyning, Sussex, where he lived during his retirement, on 30 November 1934, less than two months after the death of his wife
- ↑ MP; UK Attorney-General
- ↑ Chaplain of Lancing College
- ↑ Educated at King`s School, Canterbury. Lieutenant, King's Shropshire Light Infantry. He served in WW1, being seriously wounded by shrapnel, the last fragment being removed years later by a surgeon. Returning to the front, he was awarded the Military Cross in February 1918. A few weeks later, he was shot in the throat but survived. He was afterwards manager of Burma Teak, and settled, as a result of his marriage, in the USA
- ↑ BA (Amherst, Mass). Barbara`s two brothers, Donald and Waldron, were both Cornell graduates; the former, a broker associated with investment bankers, Eastman Dillon, served in both world wars
- ↑ Land Agent, of Trevor House, Chirk. Surviving issue: George Francis Bligh Monck (1885-1963) m (1919, Eng) Marjorie Maud Hesketh daughter of Robert Lemprière Hesketh and Eleanor Irene Lemprière, daughter of William, Seigneur of Rozel; and Henry Gustavus Hamilton Monck (1894-1959) M.C., Captain, King`s Shropshire Light Infantry m (1930, Eng) Ethel Gertrude Lawford daughter of William Robinson Lawford of Chirk
- ↑ MA (Cantab.), Schoolmaster, of Driffield and then of Cheltenham. Kerchever, his wife Elizabeth Lucinda, and their only daughter, Margaret de Gruchy Tillyard, died within the same month, February 1947, at their home in Cheltenham
- ↑ MRCS, LRCP, of Caerlyon, Monmouthshire, MOH; then of Torquay, Devon
- ↑ After Indian Independence (1947) Connie Lambert, by then a widow, with her unmarried daughter, Joyce, returned to England. After 53 years in India, they "didn't like it" (England), so returned to India, to live inland in the south-east, at a mission, where they were paying guests for ten years
- ↑ Assistant Commissioner, Indian Railways. Lambert had shown an interest in railways from an early age. He was, though, expected by his Anglo-Irish family to have entered the Indian cavalry, with which they had been associated since the mid-18th century. With this in mind, he had been sent to the Punjab, to an uncle who had become, in his retirement, governor of the province. The scheme was unsuccessful. The only outcome was that the boy enjoyed an idle life, which seemed to suit him very well. Thus, he had his way and began working for Indian Railways
- ↑ Lt-Colonel, Scinde Horse and, between 1931-4, ADC to the Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. He was next seconded to the Intelligence Department of the Government of India, in Peshawar, and was IO in the Khaisora Operations against, to quote his obituary [Daily Telegraph, 7 March 1994], "the notorious Faqr of Ipi". In 1936, Lambert travelled to England to represent his regiment of Indian Cavalry at the Coronation of King George VI. From 1938 to 1941, he served on the North-West Frontier at Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Razmak, Waziristan and Der Ismail Khan. Following Indian Independence (1947), he was retained by the Indian Government and engaged by them in intelligence work around the Caspian Sea and in Burma. In retirement, back in England, he became a fruit farmer and market gardener at Little Shurdington, between Cheltenham and Gloucester. He was an excellent polo player and had been a big game hunter, both in India and Africa. He was, at the time of his death, aged 93, one of Britain's last five remaining Indian Cavalry officers
- ↑ Mary ffolliott Powell was in 1933 Companion of the Maharani of Bairampur
- ↑ Descendants in England, de Gruchy Lambert
- ↑ Vingtenier du Douet, St Peter, 1814-7. Builder, timber merchant and banker. On 11 January 1815, the St Peter`s Parish Assembly resolved that, regarding the new Presbytery (Rectory), the money needed would be guaranteed by the parish treasury. Matthieu de Gruchy then presented to the Assembly a tender to undertake the building work and to complete it according to architectural plans, for the sum of 3000 livres, Cours de France. He is listed among other country bankers, (Banques de la campagne) in the Almanac du Chronique 1817-1820, although in Mourant`s Almanach, 1817, the de in his name was missing. Matthieu, who was a vingtenier at the age of twenty-five and a militia sergeant, when aged twenty-six, evidently had both leadership qualities and ability. He was, regrettably, over-ambitious and too impatient for success. Over extended, he had to flee in 1825 to London to escape his creditors. In bankruptcy proceedings, court records show that, apart from another Jersey bank, his principal creditors were mostly relatives who had supported his promising, if youthful, enterprise. Ironically, the elder son of his second marriage became, in Australia, a successful bank manager. In London, Matthieu became a cabinet maker. At the time of his second marriage, his first wife was, however, still living. He returned to Jersey in his final years, to live in New Street, St Helier, close to his nephews` business, where he died
- ↑ Master mariner, wrecked on Pacific coast of Nicaragua, 1851, murdered near Pueblo Nuevo by bandits, on crossing overland with the ship`s chest to the Caribbean
- ↑ Settled 1869 in Stafford County, Virginia, USA, farming with his mother and step-father, Captain George Desreaux. Died at Mount Holly, Virginia, USA
- ↑ There was no issue of this, Daniel Norman`s second marriage
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Rochebois, Mont és Tours, St Aubin, home of Laurence and Augusta de Gruchy
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William Philippe de Gruchy (1809-1881) drawn in 1846 by Berteau
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Interwoven locks of hair, William Philippe de Gruchy (fair) and Louisa, née Chapman, his wife
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William Philippe de Gruchy, taken in 1875
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Philippe de Gruchy (1812-1889), generation 3, of The Grove and Little Grove, St Lawrence
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William Laurence de Gruchy, in 1852, before going to Rugby
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William Laurence de Gruchy (1838-1920), Jurat, co-founder, La Société Jersiaise
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Maud Irene de Gruchy (1865-1957), wife of Ernest Briard, of Bulwark House
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Ernest Briard, Captain, Militia, husband of Maud Irene de Gruchy
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Maud Irene Briard, nee de Gruchy, aged 85, at Noirmont Manor, with a great-nephew
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Guy Fortescue Burrell de Gruchy (1867-1940), Seigneur of Noirmont; taken in about 1916
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Catherine May de Gruchy, nee Miller (1885-1972), wife of G F B de Gruchy and Chatelaine of Noirmont, taken in 1946
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Guy Fortescue Burrell de Gruchy (1867-1940), Jurat, taken in 1928
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Philip de Gruchy (1917-1973), son of G.F.B. de Gruchy, taken by his sister, Hope
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Hope May de Gruchy (1918-1995), Dame de Noirmont, taken in 1944
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Captain, later Major, W G M (Bill) Dixon, husband of Hope de Gruchy, taken in Delhi in 1942
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Philip Henry de Gruchy (1843-1899), Major, Militia
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Louisa Hilda de Gruchy, generation 5, Sister, QAIMNS, 1915-1919, serving in Greece, Egypt and the United Kingdom. She became a Matron in 1920
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Louisa Hilda de Gruchy (1878-1964) taken in 1906, when a British Red Cross Nurse in Shanghai--far right
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Louisa Hilda (right) and her brother, Reggie de Gruchy (1877-1949), taken about 1881
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Louisa Hilda de Gruchy, as a child; apparently going low-watering
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Louisa Hilda de Gruchy (1878-1964), lived in Bexhill, Sussex
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Vera Maud de Gruchy,(1881-1949), Interpreter, League of Nations. Pictured here, previously, whilst serving in the Polish Red Cross
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Vera Maud de Gruchy (1881-1949), lived in Bexhill, Sussex
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Philip Hugh de Gruchy (1922-2009) MRCVS, of the Ministry of Agriculture`s College, Wye; previously Lieutenant, Royal Berkshire Regiment
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Constance Ann (`Connie`) de Gruchy, wife of Sempill Lambert (1861-1957, Ind) who, after most of her life living with her husband in India, opted in 1947, to remain there
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Denis de Gruchy Lambert at Buckingham Palace, in 1936, representing his regiment at the Coronation of King George VI
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H.E.B. de Gruchy in 1912, at King`s School, Canterbury, courtesy of Peter Henderson, the school archivist
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Lydia Jane de Gruchy (1847-1919), generation 4, wife of William Ogier, Ecrivain and Captain, Militia
