Francis Grylls was christened on 28 Jan 1615 in Lanreath, Cornwall, England. [1] His parents were Rev Francis Grylls and Martha Mayow.[2]
He married Julian Unknown. Their children were
Oxford MA, 30 June, 1640. Rector of Lanreath, Cornwall. Son of his namesake, the previous rector. Brother of Hannibal Gryles.
"By 1660 the Commonwealth was running out of steam and with the Restoration came almost immediate relief. Barely six months after the King’s return another Francis Grylls was instituted as Rector of Lanreath. In this same year we find the first written reference to his parsonage house. Listed on the new Hearth Tax Rolls, Lanreath Rectory is described as having eleven hearths. Whether this second Francis altered or improved the property in any way we don’t know but nineteen years after his institution in 1679, in the Ecclesiastical Records for that year, is a detailed description of the Rectory. The building contained a hall, a ‘parlour with boarded floor’, a kitchen ‘with great range and two ovens’ - and an amazing number of rooms devoted to the pursuit of self-sufficiency, among them a bread house, bake house, brew house, buttery, pantry and dairy. Outside there was a barn, a stable, a calves’ house ‘with hay store above’, an ox house, a malt house, ‘four small rooms for hogs and a dove house of stone’. The gardens included ‘the Pigeon House garden’, two kitchen gardens and a place for ‘flowers and sweet herbs’.
The second Francis Grylls survived until 1691, out-living Charles II by six years."(1)
His names are also spelled Frauncis Grilles[3]
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NG9P-6R3 : 19 September 2020), Frauncis Grilles, 1615.
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England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
A Genealogy of the Rouses of Devon, John C. Street and C. Douglas Peters (J.C. Street, 2002), p. 247. Found on Google books. (1) "A History of Lanreath and The Old Rectory" at https://www.oldrectory-lanreath.co.uk/house-history
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