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John GRIGGS
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Name John GRIGGS Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Baptised 16 May 1774 All Saints’ Church, Birchington, Kent, England
Gender Male Died 1 Oct 1834 - Date from burial register
Buried 4 Oct 1834 Ebenezer Chapel (Independent) Burial Ground, Ramsgate, Kent, England
- From burial ground register (image on FMP, viewed 11 Apr 2023; ref. TNA/RG/4/1178)
Siblings4 brothers and 2 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch
William GRIGG, d. Yes, date unknown (Great Grandfather)
Ann CRISP, bur. 1810, All Saints’ Church, Birchington, Kent, England
(Mother) 
Person ID I35701 All Last Modified 11 Apr 2023
Father William GRIGGS, bap. 10 Oct 1742, All Saints’ Church, Birchington, Kent, England
, bur. 27 Dec 1798, All Saints’ Church, Birchington, Kent, England
(Age ~ 56 years) Mother Ann CRISP, bur. 1810, All Saints’ Church, Birchington, Kent, England
Married 1771 All Saints’ Church, Birchington, Kent, England
Family ID F3408 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Mary ANDREWS, b. Abt 1780, d. Yes, date unknown Marriage License 6 Feb 1800 Consistory Court, Canterbury, Kent, England
- Willis abstract:
"John GRIGG of Birchington miller bach[elor] & Mary ANDREWS of the s[ame], fath[er] Jas A carp[enter]"
Married 9 Feb 1800 All Saints’ Church, Birchington, Kent, England
- From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 11 Apr 2023)
Baptisms of children of a John and Mary GRIGGS appear in Birchington PRs from a few months after the marriage of this John and Mary up to and including 1811. The family is not found there after this date, but appear to have moved to Ramsgate. However, no children known of born there till c. 1823. The two known of are with widow Mary in 1841 and 1851 censuses, and Mary is of the right age to be this one.
So, why no children between 1811 and 1823? I did wonder if they had lived for a while in Nackington, as index (on FMP) shows children of a John and Mary baptised there in 1812, 1815 and 1817. However, checking marriages of John Grigg(s) etc. to a Mary shows there was one in Nackington in 1812, so those three children almost certainly offspring of this other John and Mary. (Probably also the children baptised in Canterbury in the 1820s were children of the Nackington couple; abode was given as 'St Lawrence' at the baptism of 2 in St. Paul's Church in 1823, but the St. Lawrence area of Canterbury was in St. Paul's Parish, so that was probably the abode, not St. Lawrence in Thanet).
No baptisms found for the two children born in Ramsgate in the 1820s, and John appears to have been buried in the burial ground of a non-conformist chapel, so possibly any other children were either baptised in a non-confirmist chapel whose records don't survive, or perhaps who believed in adult baptism.
Children8 children Last Modified 11 Apr 2023 Family ID F302325 Family Group Page | Family Chart


