Groves & Dumbleton
Family History

Last updated 31st March 1999

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John GROVES, originally from Warwickshire, married Hester DUMBLETON in Bourton on the Hill in 1799. Hester, baptised in 1768, was the daughter of John DUMBLETON and Patiance HALL. There were DUMBLETON baptisms in Bourton on the Hill right the way back to 1569, but it will be a lifetime's work to trace my line back that far!

John and Hester's grand-daughter Hannah GROVES, married my great-grandfather William MARSHALL, and maybe lived to regret it, as he deserted her in 1880, leaving her to the tender ministrations of Shipston-on-Stour Poor Law Union with a baby (my grandfather) of six months and six other children.

 

GROVES:

Name
Date of Birth
Place of birth
1. Robert GROVES    
m. Sarah GIBBS 14 Oct 1770    
    2. Robert GROVES bap 30 Jan 1774 Stretton on Fosse, Warwicks
   m. Sarah PHILLIPS 2 Jul 1805    
   2. Hannah GROVES bap. 21 Jul 1776 Stretton on Fosse, Warwicks
   2. Hannah GROVES bap. 6 Mar 1781 Stretton on Fosse, Warwicks
   2. John GROVES bap 18 Aug 1771 Stretton on Fosse, Warwicks
   m. Hester DUMBLETON 1799 bap. 22 May 1768 Bourton on the Hill, Glos.
      3. John GROVES bap. 10 Oct 1802 Bourton on the Hill, Glos.
      3. John GROVES bap. 23 Oct 1803 Bourton on the Hill, Glos.
      3. George GROVES bap. 22 Apr 1810 Bourton on the Hill, Glos.
      3. Sarah GROVES bap. 26 Jan 1812 Bourton on the Hill, Glos.
      3. Edwin GROVES bap. 20 Apr 1806 Bourton on the Hill, Glos.
      m. Selina SHEARD/SHERRARD? 1839 bap. 10 Dec 1816 Fladbury, Worcs.
         4. Hannah GROVE/GROVES b. 24 Feb 1842 Bourton on the Hill, Glos.
         m. William MARSHALL 1863 20 Mar 1841 Longborough, Glos.
         4. John GROVES c. 1839 Naunton Beauchamp, Worcs.
         4. Mary Maria GROVES bap. 10 Nov 1844 Bourton on the Hill, Glos.
         4. George GROVES bap. 18 Mar 1849 Bourton on the Hill, Glos.
         4. Charles GROVES c. 1851 Bourton on the Hill, Glos.
         4. Henry GROVES bap. 26 Oct 1856 Bourton on the Hill, Glos.

I am delighted to have made contact with a fifth cousin, Rachel, descended from my g.g.g. grandfather's brother, Robert Groves.

Selina and her children appear to be living with Edwin's brother John in the 1861 census. I haven't yet found when Edwin died.

I have found Henry GROVES as a 13 year old servant to a boot maker in Quinton, Warwickshire in the 1871 census. Charles GROVES appears as an inmate of the Shipston on Stour Workhouse on the 1891 census.

Mary Maria GROVES may be the Maria GROVES who is a House Servant to the Rector of Upper Swell in the 1861 census. There is an intriguing marriage entry of a Mary Maria GROVES in Kensington, London 1870. I expect I shall eventually succumb to temptation and order the certificate!

There is also a possible marriage for George GROVES in the Evesham Registration District in 1870. Ditto re certificate!

 

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