Family: Capt. Samuel Grose, Sr., LHPN-ZSQ / Eleanor Giddy/GROSE

CAPTAIN SAMUEL GROSE (1764 – 1825)

Samuel Grose was baptised at St Uny, Redruth, 26th December 1764.

He married Eleanor Giddy at St Uny, Redruth on 21st June 1786

Samuel and Eleanor Grose’s children

• Eleanor baptised in Holford, Somerset, 24th December 1786 (born 12th October, 1786)
• Mary baptised in St. Andrew’s Church in Loxton, Somerset in 1788
• Mary baptised in Luxborough, Somerset in 1789 (TBC)
• Samuel baptised in Somerset, 1791. He married Ann Vivian in 1812. He was a pupil of Richard Trevithick and designer of the Cornish Engine. ‘The oldest and most scientific engineer in Cornwall.‘
• Matthew baptised at All Saints church in Dodington, Somerset, 11th December 1795. Unmarried, copper  miner/Mine Agent on censuses of 1841 and 1851 in Gwinear.
• Edward Giddy baptised in Nether Stowey, Holford, Somerset, 22nd November 1799 (&/or 28th Nov 1799 in Taunton, Somerset).
• Elizabeth Giddy baptised in Gwinear, 6th January 1805.
• James baptised in Gwinear, Cornwall, 25th February 1810. Wesleyan Methodist Minister.

This Samuel Grose, born 1764, was buried in Gwinear in Cornwall in 1825

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https://adventurousancestors.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/mining-captains-matthew-grose-and-samuel-grose/