Family History Notebook

John Grigg
Wallend, Langdale

Son of  Michael Grigg of Stangs, Stool End and Jone Harrison

Baptised in 1684  at Grasmere, Cumberland

Married Margaret Dixon2 on the 9th of July  1709 at Grasmere

Children

Jane, baptised on the 10th of April 1710 at Grasmere
Twins - born dead on the 11th of June 1711 5
Ephraim (not baptised in infancy)

Married R  (Ruth, Rebecca, Rachel ...?)4

Died 1741

Notes

1    Information originally from "The Hawkshead Connexion: Some Cumberland Baptists CWAAS 1991?

2    Daughter of James Dixon of Wallend1

3    Received Stangs from his father but sold it to his brother Joseph in 1730. Bought Wallend from Agnes, daughter of James Dixon and amalgamated two other Wallend properties with it. 1

4   " (As at Stool End) there were four farms at Wall end at the end of of the 17th century. The surviving farmhouse, now the property of the National Trust, has a press cupboard with the initials RGIG and the date 1725. John Grigg's first wife Margaret [Dixon] had obviously died before her father made his will in 1723, and he must have remarried. The marriage has not been found, but the second wife's name was evidently Rachel or Rebecca. There is also a spice cupboard with the initials EGS for Ephraim and Sarah Grigg."

"The Hawkshead Connexion: Some Cumbrian Baptists"

5    In 1711 John Grigg's wife of Great Langdale of Wall End [???] brought in bed of two abortive children and the two children were both buryed ye same day