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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Granshaw origins
« on: Sunday 30 November 08 16:29 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, Czarnolas and Gaie,
I replied on the other thread to Czarnolas as well. I have all these names on my family tree for the Granshaws. There's about 1500 names on it, and it fills a 36 x 48 poster sized sheet. The tree has a lot of holes in it, and so if you'd care to swap information, you're both welcome to a copy. It may at least give you a place to start research.
Granshaws were in the U.S before 1700, so the family line may have started about the middle 1600's. Huguenots were emigrating to all countries, and apparently they went to Virginia as well. None of the heraldry books I've checked has a record of the name, but there were immigrants to the U.S in 1800's from Germany with the name. I hope you get copies of the Huguenot connection, no-one that I've been in contact with seems to have conclusively proved it.
By the way, Isaac was a very popular name with the Granshaws, there was the one 1795-1866 who married Mary Bisset(y?)1791-? and another born 1817.
Good luck on all of this to you both

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Granshaw origins
« on: Sunday 30 November 08 16:04 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,
For what it's worth, I have a record of George William(1853-1924) marrying Maria Buck (1851-1894). His father was James(1810-1876). George was the youngest of 5 children.
George had 5 children, James George was the first, he married Constance M (no name recorded), and there was one son, Lawrence James (1900-?) who married a (?) Hunter. Does any of this tie in to what you know? My records are fragmentary, but I can go back on your tree to 1753.
I have prepared a large family tree in PDF form that covers U.S, Canada, Australia and U.K. from data given me by many others. It is available if you'd like it. I usually post on Ancestry.com.
The Hugenot connection has been mooted by many, but there doesn't seem to be a clear answer just where the name came from. The 1753 connection was a James Jacques Granshaw, and some of the immigrants to the U.S. had French christian names. Everyone seems to be in agreement that the family were silk weavers, and Bethnal Green and Spittalfields (Hospitalfields originally) were their areas. One of the female Granshaws seems to have been well enough off in the 1800's to keep her maiden name when she married so her son was registered as a Granshaw. There may have been other reasons for that, who knows? Anyway, they were a big family and it's spread all over the world. I am in North America, so one of these days will try to tie all the American Granshaws together, when I have time.
If you can figure out a way to privately exchange email addresses, I'd be happy to send you what I have.
Best of luck, Cliff

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