Kent GRIGGS

[Stangat]

Hi all

I'm on leave so I'm having a bash at progressing the tree at bit further.

Thanks to help from Jo on the Kent look up site I've confirmed a bit more and thought I'd made a link. However, I've just made a discovery which could throw a spanner in it.

George Griggs and Elizabeth Bartlet m 04/11/1773 St John Margate and had 5 children:-

Elizabeth 1774, William 1775, Ann 1777 (my 4xGt Grandma),Sarah 1781 and Mary 1783

I had thought from my research and through IGI and four other people's trees that George was born in Birchington in 1735. Unfortunately, I can't find my research bits for him to tell me how I proved it, if I did and looking for someone else I've accidently found another George b1744 in Birchington.

Would anyone be able to shed some light on which he is?

I have tried to contact Ray (R753G) as he has a Griggs book but no reply yet.

Thanks

Ian

[kentfallen]

I'm not sure if you know but the GRIGGS family in Kent are very well known fisherman and lifeboatman. They still exist and are active in these areas mainly in Shepway (Hythe, Folkestone, Lydd, Rye areas). They also sold fish in their own wet fish shops.

[TonyGriggs]

Hello All

The well known Kent fisherman/lifeboat famiy from the Hythe, Folkestone area are not (at least within the timescales of the parish register entries below) related to the famly in Thanet. The Hythe family has its roots in Monks Horton, Kent and began as a seperate branch with Margaret Griggs who was born in 1784 she had a son called Wright Griggs baptised at 1813 in Sellindge as an unmarried mother. Margarets ancestry dates back to a line I can trace to John Griggs who was the curate at Burmarsh Kent in 1563. I have reasearched this line extensively.

I have an electronic copy of the Griggs book mentioned below. The members of this line form a seperate branch to the Hythe Griggs. A chap called Fred Griggs researched and published the book in 1986. The George Griggs and Elizabeth Bartlett mentioned below are most likely to fall into this group somewhere. Fred focused his research on Families he found in the Faversham/Thanet areas. The book does have on the charts within it both of the George Griggs's (1735 and 1744) and both are very likely to link back to this lineage. Unfortunately Fred did not include the raw data in his book and he has not tracked the descendants of either of the George's mentioned above.

Please find attached an image of the chart of the Birchington line Fred produced.

I have collected over 1100 baptisms, 500 marriages, 500 burials and other sources of the various Griggs families in Kent and am pleased to try and help anyone where I can.

Kind regards

Tony Griggs

[frazshep]

Hi Tony,
I am helping my friend's family to research their Griggs history, and I am keen to see if any of it rings familiar with any of your research as we are in danger of getting stuck!
The basic line is:
J M GRIGGS b 1936 Dover
JAMES GRIGGS b 1900 Dover, m ANNIE CRISP
JAMES THOMAS GRIGGS b 1870 Hougham, Dover m MARY ANN EDWARDS
JAMES GRIGGS b 1844 Charlton by Dover, m MARY ANN DOWLE (DOWELL, DOWD etc!)
CHARLES GRIGGS b around 1806 Kent, living in Elham village in the 1841 census. He married ANNE HARRIS at Lympne in 1833 and lived around the Hythe before moving to Vicarage Corner, Elham in about 1840 (this from birthplaces of children).  in the 1851 census, Ann is listed as widow. We can find no death, the marriage predates registration and the parish record transcript doesn't add much, and he only appears on the first census which gives no place of birth (other than in county of Kent) and is notoriously inaccurate on ages too!

I know this doesn't give you much to go on, but I wonder if it ties in with any particular branch of the Griggs family that you have come across?  James and Charles are the only male forenames in the family until a Reginald Griggs in 1904.

Hope you can help!
Best wishes,
Frazer

[baltibluebird]

Hi

Mary Ann Griggs bapt 2 June 1816, Staple, Kent is my 3rd gt grandmother.  Her parents according to the IGI were George Griggs and Sarah unknown.

So far I have not been able to find any further siblings, or the marriage of George Griggs to Sarah unknown.

I wonder whether you could look in your book and see if you can find any info on this family please?

Thanks in anticipation ...