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Samuel GRIGSBY
1768 - 1844 (~ 75 years)
Has 56 ancestors and 53 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name Samuel GRIGSBY Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Baptised 6 Dec 1768 St. Margaret’s Church, Hucking, Kent, England 
- From IGI
Gender Male Residence 1841 Broom Hall, Hucking, Kent, England - With his wife and sons William and James. Samuel and his sons were all ag labs, and two other ag labs were a separate household in Broom Hall (James and Richard Kidney, aged 45 and 12 - probably father and son).
Died Mar Q 1844 Hollingbourne Reg Dist, Kent, England - GRO ref: GRIGSBY, Samuel q1 1844 Hollingbourne RD 5 240; GRO online index shows age at death as 84
(actually about 75, but there doesn't seem to be another death registration which could be him, and the burial was in Hucking and that is where he was living at the time of the 1841 census)
Buried 19 Feb 1844 St. Margaret’s Church, Hucking, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 9 Jul 2021)
Siblings2 brothers and 4 sisters Half-siblings1 half brother (family of [ - ? - ] and Susanna CORDGER) Patriarch & Matriarch 
John GRIGSBY, b. Est 1530, d. Apr 1600, Marden, Kent, England (Age ~ 70 years) (5 x Great Grandfather) 
Susanna, b. Est 1702, d. Yes, date unknown (Grandmother)Person ID I6517 All Last Modified 27 Jun 2023
Father William GRIGSBY, b. Abt 1734, Headcorn, Kent, England , d. Aft 1781 (Age ~ 48 years) Mother Susanna CORDGER, b. Abt 1729, Detling, Kent, England , d. Oct 1781, Hucking, Kent, England (Age ~ 52 years)
Other Partners: [ - ? - ]Marriage License 28 Feb 1756 Canterbury, Kent, England - Wm Grigsby of Bicknor lab bach (21) & Sus Corger of Detling sp (26), at D or B. 28 Feb 1756.
From Willis, Canterbury Marriage Licences, 1751-1780, p. 66 (from Volume 29). Affidavit not yet seen (bonds do not survive for this date).
Married 29 Feb 1756 St. Martin of Tours’ Church, Detling, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 16 Jul 2024)
"William Grigsby of the Parish of Bicknor
Bachelor and Susanna Corger of this
Parish were
Married in this Church by License
this 29th Day of February in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred
and fifty six by me Cr Thomas [Vicar]
This Marriage was - the Mark of William Grigsby
solemnized between Us l the Mark of Susanna Corger
In the William Tomlin
Presence of John Trowell"
John Trowell was a witness to many marriages at this time - probably Parish Clerk.
Family ID F3701 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Elizabeth TOWNSDEN, b. Between 1766 and 1771, d. Abt 1847, Hollingbourne Reg Dist, Kent, England (Age ~ 81 years) Banns of marriage 6 May 1798 to 20 May 1798 St. Mary’s Church, Chatham, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on CityArk), shows Samuel Griggsby and Elizabeth Townsend, both otp
Banns of marriage 27 May 1798, 3 Jun 1798 and 10 Jun 1798 St. John the Baptist Church, Bredgar, Kent, England Married 16 Jul 1798 St. John the Baptist Church, Bredgar, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 9 Jul 2021)
"No 134
Samuel Grigsby of this Parish Batchelor
and Elizabeth Townsden of the
same Parish Spinster were
Married in this Church by Banns
this Sixteenth Day of July in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred
and Ninety Eight by me Jas: Downs Vicar
This Marriage was solemnized between Us Samuel + Grigsby his mark, Elizabeth X Townsden her mark
In the Presence of William + Whitehead his Mark, Mary + Whitehead her mark"
Samuel's sister Mary Grigsby was a Whitehead by marriage - witnesses were probably her and her son or her daughter and her son. Witnesses were usually young people, most often siblings or else cousins; Samuel being the youngest child of his parents and Mary the oldest he was actually closer in age to his nephew and niece William and Mary Grigsby than to his sister Mary.
Banns were read first first in Chatham, declaring both as of Chatham parish, for three weeks from 6th May, then in Bredgar for the following 3 weeks (with both now said to be of Bredgar parish). At this time many from Bredgar seem to have married elsewhere, particularly in Chatham, making out they were of Chatham parish. Perhaps it came to light in Samuel and Elizabeth's case that they were actually of Bredgar, and so they had to change their plans.
It would have cost them, to have had an additional reading of the banns in Chatham.
Children5 children Last Modified 27 Jun 2023 Family ID F3710 Family Group Page | Family Chart