Son of William Grigg and Elizabeth, born 1718 2
Married Rachel Wilson on the 19th of November 1750 at Grasmere, Westmorland
Children
John, born 1763
Married Mary (Hodgson ?3)
Died on the 9th of June 18101 in Hawkshead
Notes
1 "William Grigg's son John married Rachel, daughter of Jonathan Wilson of Brotherkeld, at Grasmere in 1750, thus strengthening the link between their families which had been forged through their common membership of the Baptist church. In 1750 William Grigg passed over the farm at Stool End to John, and in 1769 John mortgaged it to four known Baptists, Richard Coulthred junior, the minister's son, John Wilson of Brotherkeld, Benjamin Wilson of Lowick Green, son of Johnathan, and James Swainson4 of High House, Hawkshead. When John Grigg made his will in 1804, Rachel was dead and he had evidently remarried as he refers to his 'now wife' Mary3. He lived to a great age, dying on 9th June 1810, by which time he had sold his farm at Stool End and retired to Hawkshead Hill, where he had acquired property in 1774. He was a trustee of the chapel at Torver, a position which he seems to have relinquished in 1806. His will was witnessed by Richard Wilson, the probable son of Elizabeth Wilson (see above) and proved by the minister at Tottlebank, Thomas Harbottle. The other executor was Jonathon Dixon of Old Hall, Ulpha. This John Grigg is always referred to in the Stool End deeds as John Grigg senior, in distinction to his cousin John Grigg junior, son of his uncle Joseph, and he could not write, whereas John junior could at least sign his name. John senior had a son, also John, who was buried at Tottlebank in 1827, aged 64, and he in turn was perhaps the father of the John Grigg of Kirkby Ireleth who was baptized and admitted at Tottlebank in 1837"
"The Hawkshead Connexion: Some Cumbrian Baptists" CWAAS 1991
2 "John son of William Grigge of the Stool-end named by his Father, & registered by the named at his father's desire, but utterly refused to have him baptised" Grasmere registers 23rd June 1718 1
3 John Grigg Yeoman married Mary Hodgson Spinster on 14th February 1794 at Hawkshead
4 A James Swainson married an Elizabeth Grigg on 24th October 1801 at Crosthwaite, Keswick. Witness John Grigg.