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Five Hundred Years of Grainges Grainges in Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and London, and related Buckinghamshire families 3rd Edition – December 2006 Pam Griffiths Acknowledgements and Disclaimers I would like to thank the staff of all the record offices and libraries I have used in researching my family. While all of them have been supportive and helpful, most deserving of mention is the staff at the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, whose unstinting patience with my questions and requests for documents has been immensely appreciated. I would also like to thank my cousin Janet Summers and my distant cousin Danny Neilsen, whose help and encouragement have been invaluable, who have unearthed numerous sources that I missed, and who understand what it is to be obsessed by family history. My thanks also go to those members of my extended family whom I pestered for information and finally to my immediate family, who – if my daughter is to be believed – spent half their family holidays in graveyards. I am grateful to Philip Gower for his meticulous care in cross-checking text and trees. However, I am quite sure that, despite repeated proof-reading and meticulous research, there are some errors in this document. Suggested corrections, comments or amendments will be willingly received. Spelling and Dates These are both problematical issues in family history. It is not unusual to find a surname spelt two different ways in the same document. I have tried, in the body of the text, to use the spelling which seemed most commonly adopted by each individual, but, in the case of those who couldn’t write, this is a somewhat arbitrary choice. W here a surname has been spelled in a variety of ways during one individual’s life, I have tried to reflect this too. Sometimes, though, I have just opted for the most common version of the name used by the family. In the index, I have divided the Grainge section into two; all variants before Robert Grainge arrived in Little Horwood in the early 1750s are listed under ‘Grange’. After that date, the name is spelled consistently with an ‘i’ and all entries are recorded as such. Other names are recorded under the most common form of a surname, provided the owners come from the same family. I freely admit that my recording of dates in this document is probably questionable. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, before 1752, the New Year began on March 25th, and the current convention is to record the date in the first three months of the year as a dual figure, e.g. 1712/13. However, on the whole, I have recorded the date as it was written at the time. In addition, in some of the earlier registers, it is often difficult to find the year date, and on occasion, I may have missed or been unable to read the exact year. Finally, dates are the easiest thing of all to mis-transcribe, however much care is taken. For those errors and any others, I apologise. Pam Griffiths, 2006 pam_griffiths@ lineone.net Contents page Earliest Beginnings 1 John and W illiam Graunge of Aston Clinton 3 The St. Leonards Branch 9 Henry Grang of Aston Clinton 10 Dauncer of Aston Clinton 13 The ‘Nicholas Line’ 14 Henry Grange of Aston Clinton and Halton 15 John Grange of Aston Clinton and Marsworth 20 The Tring Branch 22 Norwood and Wells of Aston Clinton and Drayton Beauchamp 25 John Grange of Aston Clinton and W ilstone 27 Fitkin of W ilstone 32 John Grainge of Wilstone 33 W illiam Grange of Puttenham and Descendants 36 Robert Grainge of Wilstone, Padbury, Little Horwood and Granborough 50 W ilks of Great and Little Horwood 63 John Grainge of Little Horwood 69 Curtis of Little Horwood 71 Hodgkins of Little Horwood and Granborough 78 Curtis of Little Horwood and W haddon 78 Ray and Emerton of W haddon and Nash 83 John Grainge of Little Horwood’s family 84 George Grainge of Little Horwood 90 Grantham: mainly Quainton 96 Marks, Truby and Groom: mainly Quainton 105 Roads and Harris: mainly the Claydons 111 The Kings: Grendon Underwood, Quainton, Middle Claydon 117 The Roads and the Verneys 120 George Grainge of Little Horwood, Highgate and Hendon 125 Louis George Grainge of Highgate, Cricklewood and Norbury 132 Cyril Ronald Grainge of Cricklewood, Norbury, Coulsdon and Purley 141 Gillian Patricia and Pamela Mary Grainge 148 Trees, M aps and Photographs Page Summary – 14 Generations of Grainges (before page 1) Tree 1 – Possible link between Aston Clinton and Puttenham Lines 5 Tree 2 – Descendants of W illiam Grange of St. Leonards 6 Tree 3 – Descendants of Henry Grange of Aston Clinton 11 Map – St. Leonards in the late 16th century 12 Tree 4 – Descendants of Thomas Dauncer 13 Tree 5 – Descendants of Nicholas Grange of St. Leonards 45 -48 Tree 6 – Descendants of Henry Grange of Halton 17 Tree 7 – Family of Henry Grange of W alton 19 Tree 8 – Descendants of John Grange of Aston Clinton and Wilstone 18 Tree 9 – Descendants of W illiam Grange of Drayton 23 Tree 10 – The W ells Line 24 Map – Aston Clinton in the Middle Ages 29 Tree 11 – Descendants of W illiam Norwood 26 Tree 12 – Descendants of John Fitkin 32 Tree 13 – Descendants of John Grainge of W ilstone 30 Tree 14 – Descendants of W illiam Grange of Puttenham 37 Map – Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire Parishes 38 Tree 15 – Family of Robert Grainge 57 Tree 16 – Descendants of Michael Wilks 58 Tree 17 – Descendants of John Grainge of Little Horwood 65 - 68 Tree 18 – Descendants of Thomas Curtiese 73 Tree 19 – Descendants of W illiam Hodgkins 74 Tree 20 – Descendants of Thomas Curtis 79 Tree 21 – Descendants of Thomas Ray 80 Tree 22 – Descendants of W illiam Emerton 83 Tree 23 – Descendants of Francis Hale Grainge 85 - 87 In Memorium Cards – Francis Hale and Mary Grainge, George Hodges 88 Tree 24 – Descendants of W illiam Clark Grainge 93 Tree 25 – Descendants of John and Eliza Grainge 94 Tree 26 – Descendants of Thomas Grantham 99 - 100 Tree 27 – Descendants of Richard Marks 105 Tree 28 – Descendants of Robert Groom 110 Tree 29 – Family of John Truby 111 Tree 30 – Descendants of Thomas Roads and Elizabeth King 108 Tree 31 – Descendants of W alter King 113 Tree 32 – Descendants of Thomas Roads and Joan Taylor 114 Tree 33 – Family of John Harris 116 Tree 34 – Descendants of George Grainge of Little Horwood and Highgate 123 Photos – George and Susanna Grainge 124 Photos – Louis George and Gertrude Evelyn Grainge and family 129 - 130 Tree 35 – Descendants of John George Grainge 135 Photos – Jack Grainge and family 136 Tree 36 – Descendants of Percival Louis Grainge 139 Photos – Bunny Grainge and family 140 Tree 37 – Descendants of Cyril Ronald Grainge 143 Photos – Squibs Grainge and family 144 Photos – Gill and Pam Grainge; Grainge family group 149 - 150 Earliest beginnings The story goes that when my sister was born, my grandfather came to inquire after the birth: ‘Your father-in-law’s just been to visit,’ said the nurse ‘W hat did he say"’ asked my mother ‘He stomped down the nursing home steps muttering, &Another blooming girl ( ’ Poor Grandpa; you’d think that with three sons he was reasonably assured of a grandson to continue the name, but his two elder sons already each had two daughters, and my birth, four years later, put an end to his hopes After he died, there were only four Grainges in the ,ondon phone book - my father and his two brothers, and one lone stray, whom none of us ever thought to contact . grew up with the awareness that when . married, there would be no more Grainges in this line Maybe this was one of the factors which promoted a life-long interest in family history George ,ipscombe in his History and Antiquities of Bucks1 says that ‘every attempt to obtain a correct pedigree’ of the Grainge family has been ‘hitherto ineffectual’ 0early twenty years of intermittent hunting in numerous record repositories make me believe that the above statement is no longer true However, all family histories have question marks, areas where circumstantial evidence takes over from categorical proof, and this Grainge history probably has more than many, as our family, before the mid-eighteenth century, was remarkably mobile, and chose sometimes to live in areas where parish register entries have been lost or are incomplete 1onsequently, everything in this document before about 1200 is open to some question, although it has been researched as carefully as the resources will allow The name Grainge - Grang, Graing, Grange, Graunge, Graynge or Greange as it variously appears in the earlier records - is described by Guppy2 as ‘an ancient English surname’ When he published his book in 1870, most Grainges were concentrated in Hertfordshire -85 per ten thousand - and :uckinghamshire - 15 per ten thousand - with a presumably unrelated enclave of 10 per ten thousand in West Yorkshire The earliest references to the name, according to Reaney8, come from the Essex Rotuli Hundredorum - W illiam de la Graunge 1225 - and the Sussex Subsidy Rolls of 1276 - ,aurence atte Grange However, an entry in the Eyre Roll 4, a record of the proceedings of itinerant judges in :uckinghamshire in 1222, precedes these: ‘Martin abbot of Messenden (MissendenA deputes his canon Richard de Grange versus Bohn son of Geoffrey in a plea concerning a meadow ’ Harrison5 defines the name Grange as a dweller at a barn, granary or farmhouse, but the word was also used to describe a property farmed by monks Michael Reed, in The Buckinghamshire Landscape6 says: ‘Cutlying monastery estates were farmed from a grange, at first a humble range of buildings designed to accommodate a group of lay brothers, their servants and

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