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The connection to France and Jean Grenelle has been removed. For years, descendants of Matthew Grinnell have accepted a French origin. However, Jean Rumsey, F.A.S.G., in an article, “Descendants of Daniel Grinnell for Three Generations’ in The Genealogist 7-8 [1986-87:144-277] at p. 146, pointed out that at least one major authority on the families of the region in France from which Matthew is said to have come does not acknowledge the existence of a Matthew or Mathieu anywhere in the Grenelle pedigree. A chance encounter in Boyd’s Marriage Index for Essex, while she was seeking something else, revealed the marriage record of Matthew Grinnell and his wife Rose, and proved that although he did indeed have a French connection, it appears to have been in the surname of his wife rather than his origin.[1]
"We know the names of his three sons only because, after his death, his widow Rose made a prenuptial agreement on 10 November 1643 with Anthony Paine in which she names her sons Matthew, Thomas, and Daniel (and a fourth child, not named, who may have been a daughter). On 29 October 1649, a widow again, she and her son Matthew surrendered eight acres in Portsmouth to Lot Strange. By 18 March 1650/1 she had married, as her third husband, James Weeden of Portsmouth. She was still alive 17 December 1673 when, as Rose Weeden, she sold her property in Portsmouth to her son Matthew Grennell for 30 pounds and a promise of maintenance for life. We do not know when she died." "His [Matthew Grinnells] wife, named Rose, survived him, being in 1643 the wife of Anthony Paine and later marrying James Weeden. There were three sons and a daughter." [2]
He and Rose came to the colonies after 1638 per the listing of inhabitants of Newport.[2]
Marriage: image of the entry is available - The digital images of the Lexden Parish Register D/P 273/1/1 maybe viewed by subscription at: https://www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk/
Disputed Parents:
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Of course, you are the profile manager so may do as you think best, And cutting the link between Matthew and Lord Jean will severe my link to this nobility. But I am not confident of this connection.
But maybe this is not true.
There is no mention of "Matthew" in a section on Lord Jean Grenelle of Macon within "Notice Historique Et Genalogique sur ;a Famille Quarre Dr Bourgogne Et ses Diverses Brances, Lyon, Impimerie X Jevain, 1895." But birth of Jean's son Jacques Grenelle is mentioned.
The Grinnell Family website (cited), stated that exhaustive current genealogical research (1990's) could not support for Matthew's connection to Jean. Moreover, the Grinnell Family genealogists think Matthew to be of British descent.