Intrigued to find out that I am allegedly related to various famous people via familysearch.org Rootstech matches. Others reading this may also call such matches into question. In this case, the connection allegedly comes through Sir Roger Grenville (1477-1524)
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/KFPV-3RFand his son Degorie/Digory
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/LYXX-XVBand thereafter his son Richard
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/LY4B-DBNI followed the connections backwards in my tree and the one link that seems potentially to be the most dubious, is Sir Roger’s alleged great grandson, John Grenville 1565 - 1656 (a ripe old age to live to, in an era where men usually died much younger, sceptical of this)
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/G7Q3-9WPJohn died in St Just in Penwith, which correlates with the family lineage in my tree and the area where my ancestors lived thereafter. I however question the date of death that familysearch.org has for this individual’s profile.
I looked at the alleged father of John Grenville, Richard Grenville's familysearch.org profile,
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/LY4B-DBNand found it difficult to link a son named John by Florence Kellaway to him, by looking elsewhere on the internet.
For example:
https://gw.geneanet.org/ricknorine?n=grenville&oc=&p=richardThe best I could come up with were various trees on ancestry.com (without any records to back them up), such as the following:
https://www.ancestry.com.au/family-tree/person/tree/157195769/person/432183534227/factsthis particular profile has a John with a father named as Richard, but mother as "Margaret" (no surname given), not Florence Kellaway. It also has a different date of death for John. This would suggest that Richard may have married twice or may have had a child out of wedlock with "Margaret", according to this tree, or simply that the information in that ancestry tree is incorrect. Florence allegedly died in 1586 according to familysearch.org, long after John was allegedly born in 1565.
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/GZD8-NXMThere are also other trees on ancestry.com without any backup references that postulate John as the son of Richard Grenville & Florence Kellaway, for example
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/199494617/person/352615930793/factsThere is a published history of the ‘Granville Family’, which appears to be a definitive work on the aristocratic lineage here:
https://ia600208.us.archive.org/2/items/historyofgranvil00gran/historyofgranvil00gran.pdfsee page 73, which mentions Richard, son of Degorie/Digory (
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/LYXX-XVB). I can't seem to find a reference to a son John there in the pages thereafter. However, if John was born out of wedlock, then maybe he was left out of an official history?
I'm wondering what the familysearch.org sources are? Are there any existing records that deal with a John Grenville / Granville born Abt 1565 in Cornwall that give his parents’ names? Is he really related to the aristocratic family descended from Sir Roger?
Any help appreciated
