Grindle - Family History & Genealogy Message Board

Re: Grindles of Hancock Cty

PhyllisGarner13 — 2012-05-21 13:30:17Z

Hi I have Hancock Cty Grindles and be glad to share. I also have the book by Snow and be glad to check anything for you just ask. Phyl in VA

Re: Grindles of Hancock Cty

doryburtchell — 2012-05-20 04:31:13Z

Hi Michelle. i'm looking for Grindles in Hancock Cty also. is your grandmother's book available?

Re: Alexander Grindol, Pickaway County, OH

jstrombeck — 2012-04-26 13:26:22Z

Don't know if you have this-

Daily Interocean 12/2/1892
Decatur, Il, Dec 1--Harvey Pasco, a Decatur lawyer and news agent, was arrested today for aiding in the sale of an alleged obscene and immoral Chicago newspaper on the streets of Decatur. The Mayor had ordered the paper suppressed, but it was sold not withstanding, and the arrest followed. There are 7 lawyers engaged in the case, which will be tried by jury Dec. 8th.

7/19/1883- abstracted- Harvey was indicted on 3 counts of collecting illegal fees from pensioners (this was part of his attorney work.) One charge was dismissed, the other two counts he was found guilty. One charge resulted in a $50 fine and costs, the other in a $100 fine and costs and had to refund $100 to a client. He said that he was sick of the pension business and was going to get out of it.

Re: FamilySearch.org

TeddieAllison — 2012-04-20 00:36:35Z

Hi Again! Are you still interested in participating in the Grindle Surname DNA Project? If so I have good news. FTDNA is having a sale starting today at 6PM (April 19) until 11:59pm on Saturday April 21. There is a $20 reduction in the cost of the 37 marker test. I hope you will take advantage of this opportunity.

We have another participant who has submitted his DNA and we are now in the waiting period for the results.

You can go to the FamilyTreeDNA.com website, go to the surname list and click on Grindle, then indicate your wish to participate. They will send the test kit to you.
Thanks again for your interest!
Teddie Grindle Allison

Re: GRINDLE/GRINDELL in Ireland-Ontario-Wisconsin

brianhill53703 — 2012-04-10 15:24:45Z

Unfortunately, I don't have any Grindell Y DNA, as I'm descended from Grindells via my grandmother. Her only brother didn't have any children that I'm aware of, so you'd have to go back to Platteville Grindell's to find any males in our line. I don't have contact information for any of them, but if I come across any, I'l send them your link.

Re: GRINDLE/GRINDELL in Ireland-Ontario-Wisconsin

TeddieAllison — 2012-04-10 14:41:21Z

Hi Brian. Barb was right. I have been following the postings on your Grindle/Grindell ancestry. Here are the links to the Grindle YDNA Surname Project. The first is my website at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~grindleydn.... It describes the purposes of the project, history of Grindle immigration, has photos, geographic info,and some early project findings. The second site is at FamilyTreeDNA. It is http://wwwfamilytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=Grindle&am.... You can also go to familytreedna.com, click on the alphabet letter G in the surname projects list, and then click on Grindle. The PA Grindle line is very difficult to research. They came in the 1700s with little written evidence to be found. We are hoping to learn their origins and whether other Grindle lines that exist here have any connection to one another. Those who immigrated later, such as your line, may be a genetic connection. There are Grindle lines in So and No Carolina and Georgia who are faced with the same issue, and probably others as well. It would be wonderful to have Grindle men who know of their European origins to participate in this project so we can find if their DNA matches any of those who are trying to break through this very thick brick wall! Teddie Grindle Allison

Re: GRINDLE/GRINDELL in Ireland-Ontario-Wisconsin

brianhill53703 — 2012-04-10 13:09:11Z

My Grindell ancestors descend from a Thomas Grindell who was a cabinet maker in Enniskillen, Ireland. He came over to Ontario around 1830 with his wife and two young sons. His sons (and a daughter born in Canada) eventually immigrated to Platteville, WI.

Thanks for the link to the family DNA website.

Re: GRINDLE/GRINDELL in Ireland-Ontario-Wisconsin

BarbBrown1955 — 2012-04-10 12:49:40Z

teddie will probably be reading this, so she will possible answer you.. do you come from the line of john rudolph/randolph (cant remember which one) that came over as an indentured servant? there are grindle from n.or s. carolina and georgie that claim they are from ireland also.. mine come from germany. we are now waiting on results from the dna. the website is www.familytreedna.com. if not teddie will tell you the correct one.

Re: GRINDLE/GRINDELL in Ireland-Ontario-Wisconsin

brianhill53703 — 2012-04-10 12:30:22Z

Both John and William Grindell listed their father's birthplace as Ireland on census documents. Family lore states that they were born in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.

I'd like to learn more about the DNA tests. I've considered participating in one for a project for another side of my family tree.

Re: GRINDLE/GRINDELL in Ireland-Ontario-Wisconsin

BarbBrown1955 — 2012-04-10 12:24:25Z

would you be interested in doing a dna test? Teddie Allison is the coordinator of this. My brother just did one for our grindle's. I come from John Grindle in Pa around 1750. This is to help see who is related or not.. i see you have Ireland on your subject. Is this where you feel your grindle's come from.

Re: GRINDLE/GRINDELL in Ireland-Ontario-Wisconsin

brianhill53703 — 2012-04-10 01:45:04Z

I have census records for Margaret Grindell living with John and his family in 1870 and 1880. In the 1880 census, she is listed as being John's sister.

Re: GRINDLE/GRINDELL in Ireland-Ontario-Wisconsin

brianhill53703 — 2012-04-10 01:35:07Z

I'm the great-great grandson of the John Grindell you mentioned. He and his brother William opened a furniture store in Platteville after John came back from the California gold rush (his diary is in the WI State Historical Society holdings). John went off to the Civil War and came back alive as well.

I have all sorts of information about them. Hell of a couple of guys, apparently.

I'm especially interested in any information about Thomas Grindell's background (as well as his wife Elizabeth Jane McMullen).

Re: Ethel Grindle from Connellsville, PA

LeslieBakst — 2012-04-08 03:30:26Z

Yes I have seen the record on John Grindle from Ireland. He immigrated in 1773 to PA and was an indentured servant.

Re: Ethel Grindle from Connellsville, PA

TeddieAllison — 2012-04-07 15:56:30Z

I think the better source might be familysearch.org. There were so many principalities in Europe in the 1700s that unless you know which one they came from it is almost impossible to do a search. I haven't tried searching European records on Ancestry.com as I can't pinpoint any one location. The only geographic hint I was given was that it was West of the Rhine. Then there is Grindelwald in Switzerland. That's a very large area to search. One of the families that seems tied to the Jacob Grindle line is a Petro. Nicholas Petro immigrated with his family and was in Greene Co., OH. I have info on him at home but not with me right now. There is some thought that the Christiannia who was married to Jacob Grindle (b: ca 1750) may have been a Petro. Teddie Grindle Allison

Re: Ethel Grindle from Connellsville, PA

TeddieAllison — 2012-04-07 15:48:48Z

In the church records in PA you will find the name spelled in different forms as all spelling was done phonetically at the time. The records of immigrants I have found are of a Jonathan Grindel who came from Ireland, and a Grundel (or Grundell) with no first name mentioned and without the information in front of me I don't recall where the ship was from. The translated spelling from PA church records is to Grindle; however, that spelling also occurs in Europe. I think if we research their neighbors in the 1700-1800 timeframe we might get some good clues as many of the immigrants came in groups. I'm not at home so cannot cite my source records for you but I'll be back in a couple of days. Teddie Grindle Allison

Re: Ethel Grindle from Connellsville, PA

LeslieBakst — 2012-04-07 06:01:36Z

Well I have been trying to research, but this region is new to me. Apparently, this region is like searching the midwest as "Illinois, Wisconsin". If we can somehow narrow it down to a "county", this region was divided into several different smaller areas. Most of the people who lived there were German at this time. Do you know if it was spelled "Grindel" at this time? "Grindle" seems americanized.

Re: Ethel Grindle from Connellsville, PA

vogel1955 — 2012-04-07 01:46:20Z

Okey doke, who has done any research from that area on our Grindles? Just curious? I would love to know, does Ancestry have records for there?

Re: Ethel Grindle from Connellsville, PA

BarbBrown1955 — 2012-04-06 19:10:28Z

thats it Teddie.. thank you.

Re: Ethel Grindle from Connellsville, PA

TeddieAllison — 2012-04-06 15:55:16Z

Probably Alsace Lorraine.

Re: Ethel Grindle from Connellsville, PA

vogel1955 — 2012-04-06 14:31:34Z

Hi again, sorry about that confusion. I knew that we were not German. I will look for that Biography on Jacob,this next week. I had known that Jacob was a cousin but did't know where he fit in so I put all of his info away, but I will find it. Have a great Easter weekend, I have to work.

Re: Ethel Grindle from Connellsville, PA

BarbBrown1955 — 2012-04-06 14:25:58Z

As i recall somewhere in my history i have looked up. france and germany sort of overlapped.. part of france was part of germany and i cant remember it started with an A. so it is plausible that the grindle's could of came from this region.. one of my other lines came from this region. just food for thought. in a hurry right now or i would look that region up.. Barb

Re: Ethel Grindle from Connellsville, PA

LeslieBakst — 2012-04-06 05:07:13Z

Thank you for clarifying this! I know how hard it is to read those old documents, I went to the FHS and they had magnifying glasses to look at that old script. Can't wait to see what you find!

Re: Ethel Grindle from Connellsville, PA

TeddieAllison — 2012-04-06 04:11:05Z

Thanks Deb for the clarification. France makes more sense. It'll be interesting to see the wording in the personal history writing of your Great Uncle and his reference to a family bible. Do you know where the Jacob Polk Grindle biography can be found? That would be another great resource for we Grindle researchers.

Thanks for keeping us posted.
Teddie Grindle Allison

Re: Ethel Grindle from Connellsville, PA

vogel1955 — 2012-04-06 02:34:33Z

OK, other members of the Grindle Family, I am sorry but I do not have my hands on that proof, yet. I have a copy of a personal history that my Great Uncle Joseph Sherman Grindle wrote some years back. It states that there was a Famiy Bible and the Grindles came from France (not Holland as I had previously mentioned). My Newberry side came from Holland. I can only understand parts of this history, and it clearly states that Grandpa Grindle, Frederick and his two brothers (one had to have been Daniel, because he is mentioned in Jacob Polk Grindle's biography) came from France and settled near Bowen, Hancock Co., IL. I had just spoke to my cousin who has the original handwritten history, and she is supposed to be mailing it to me. I am waiting on this. The copy that I have is very hard to read, that is why I have requested the original. As soon as I get it I will let you all know, as I am going to keep bugging her until she sends it to me!

Re: Ethel Grindle from Connellsville, PA

TeddieAllison — 2012-04-04 17:30:31Z

Deb - I would love to know the origins of your Grindle line in Holland. I don't know if they (your line) connects to my Jacob Grindle line, or to John and Henry Grindle, all from PA. I started the Grindle Surname Project at FTDNA in the hopes of breaking through this brick wall in our genealogical search. If I remember correctly didn't your line come out of Maryland? If you know a Grindle man who is from the MD line it would be great to have him(them) participate in the YDNA project. I concur with Barb - would love to know the Holland origins.
Teddie Grindle Allison

Re: Ethel Grindle from Connellsville, PA

BarbBrown1955 — 2012-04-04 13:31:09Z

I would also like to see proof of the grindle's coming from Holland, if you wouldn't mind.. My line comes from John Grindle, from Pa. my brother has just done a DNA test, and we are waiting on the results from Ancestor.com. Thank you. my email address is sassycat44460@yahoo.com. I am very anxious to see the proof. Although at one time germany did occupy the netherlands at one time. so there still would be german in their ancestory.

Re: Ethel Grindle from Connellsville, PA

LeslieBakst — 2012-04-04 04:45:45Z

Sent you a PM.

Re: Ethel Grindle from Connellsville, PA

vogel1955 — 2012-04-04 04:26:40Z

My grandmother was Minnie Grindle, her father was Sylvester, and his father was Frederick. I have proof that we are indeed related to Jacob Polk Grindle from Hancock Co., IL. These Grindles hailed from Holland, not Germany. I have proof of that also! Please contact me so we can d some comparing. Thank You!

Re: FamilySearch.org

TeddieAllison — 2012-03-26 00:02:38Z

I have some materials on Benjamin that are in my "Unattached Grindles" file. Hopefully we'll figure out his parentage one of these days.
Teddie

Re: FamilySearch.org

Lynne_Yeager — 2012-03-25 16:55:08Z

Teddie

Our Grindle, Benjamin born PA abt 1805, married Catherine
K Miller ( b abt 1805) 13 Feb 1823, Greene County, Ohio. 7 children, 6 children moving to Vigo County, Indiana. Ben died before 1860, unknown Ohio or Indiana. Julia born 1837, unknown about her. Other 6 children accounted for by various descendants.
Would like to find parents, etc of Ben. Assume he is related to some Grindles in Greene Co, Ohio but no proof.
Thanks, Lynne

Re: FamilySearch.org

TeddieAllison — 2012-03-25 15:18:21Z

Thanks Dave. I'll add this to my files. Happy Traveling!
Teddie Grindle Allison

Re: FamilySearch.org

wezlf4c — 2012-03-25 13:58:38Z

I am traveling right now in the Virginia/DC area and don't have my full family tree with me.

I was born July 2, 1946, in Springfield OH and now live in Meridian ID, with my second wife.

I am the son of Donald Edward Grindle and Geraldine Lou Rolston. Donald was born on August 9, 1924, in Springfield, OH, the only child of Clark Edward Grindle and Clara Belle Blackmer. He married Geraldine Rolston on June 19, 1943, in Springfield. He served in the US Navy from June 1943 to October 1945. He died of Cancer on December 16, 1991, in Springfield OH. He is buried in Ferncliff Cemetery in Springfield.

His father, Clark Edward Grindle, was born in 1890 in, I believe, Clifton Mills OH, and died in 1927 in Springfield.

My Great Grandfather was Charles W. Grindle, whom I believe, was a son of J. Harrison Grindle. These are all of Clifton Mills, Greene County OH.

I will fill all of the other particulars when I return home to Idaho.

I have a son David Edward Grindle, born May 6, 1972, at Hill AFB, Davis County, Utah. He has two sons, Reilly Mikel, born June 4, 1996, in Boise ID, and Ryan Edward, born May 27, 2000, in Pocatello, ID.

Dave Grindle

Re: FamilySearch.org

BarbBrown1955 — 2012-03-25 13:02:01Z

I would also like to know about your ancestors. I am also from Ohio and wondering where your ancestors came from in Ohio.. Would they happened to be from the toronto area? My maiden name was grindle. Thank you,
Barb Grindle Brown

Re: FamilySearch.org

TeddieAllison — 2012-03-24 19:51:48Z

Would you be willing to share the dates of your Grindle ancestors that you mention?
Thanks,
Teddie Grindle Allison

Re: FamilySearch.org

TeddieAllison — 2012-03-24 19:49:35Z

David - It's wonderful to hear from you and from an OHIO descendant of our Grindles. I'll give you two links. The first will take you straight to FTDNA to enroll in the Grindle project. The second will take you to our web page on Rootsweb. First: http://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=Grindle&a.... The 37 marker test would be the most meaningful one to take, and the most cost effective in the long run. Second url: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~grindleydn.... This site will give you some history, has a few Grindle photos, some geographic information and other stuff. I'm delighted to have you join the project. It's another big step toward learning our ancestry!!
Teddie Grindle Allison

Re: FamilySearch.org

wezlf4c — 2012-03-24 19:11:00Z

Hi Teddie
I have observed this post for approximately 12 years and have never really participated.

The post was created for me by a friend.

I am a GRINDLE by birth from Ohio and would be willing to participate in your YDNA project. How do I get involved.

David Alan Grindle
son of Donald Edward Grindle
grandson of Clark Edward Grindle
Great Grand son of Charles William Grindle all of Ohio.

Re: FamilySearch.org

LeslieBakst — 2012-03-21 03:11:15Z

OK, that is what I thought. As long as I can sort of narrow it down that way, it doesn't make it as intimidating. Thank you! :D

Re: FamilySearch.org

TeddieAllison — 2012-03-20 23:41:21Z

I think it is safe to say that England is out as far as our heritage goes. No proof but the evidence leans away from England. Somewhere in the Germanic areas is far more plausible for us. At that time however there were hundreds of principalities (no Germany as we know it today) and the geographic areas extended into areas that today encompass Holland, Germany, Switzerland, France and even farther inland.
There is however a very large contingent of GRINDLE families who lived in England and moved to the Northeastern area of America, in particular Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

Re: FamilySearch.org

LeslieBakst — 2012-03-20 17:37:56Z

Yeah Teddie I do kind of get all consumed with this. It's hard not to, because this has always been my dream to find all this. Can we at the very least eliminate England as a possibility, or has that not been proven either?

Re: FamilySearch.org

TeddieAllison — 2012-03-20 14:52:39Z

I love your tenacity but you are definitely going to drive yourself insane trying to find the needle in the haystack! When there is time I'll try to outline for you all the early records I have found but none of which can be confirmed as being our connection to the past. Two years ago I spent one week at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City doing nothing else but searching the GRINDLE resources there...alas to no avail. Even hired a professional researcher to help guide me while I was there. This is a very TOUGH line to research. This is why I started the GRINDLE Surname YDNA project. It has to be the definite pathway to learning about our past, but we need a whole lot more participants before we'll ever be able to reach any meaningful conclusions. Therein lies the rub! We need GRINDLE men who will be willing to join the project in order to gain ground and pull out of this stalemate or brick wall in our genealogy!

FamilySearch.org

LeslieBakst — 2012-03-20 05:23:37Z

Hi, I guess I am the most vocal recently about the Grindles because it is driving me insane. Anyway, I had read on this message board somewhere that the Grindles may have come here earlier in the 1700s than we think. FamilySearch.org is a WONDERFUL place to do research and I found this on there...not sure if anyone has investigated this route but I found it interesting. Susannah....Anna for short? A daughter named Catherine born in Germany? Just throwing it out there, could be a dead end but you never know!

John and Susannah on ship passenger manifests?

LeslieBakst — 2012-03-09 18:16:52Z

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had any luck finding any of the 1700 Grindles from PA on Palatine ship manifests? I have searched on almost every one and haven't found anything. I've been trying to make contact with some folks on Ancestry who I haven't communicated with yet who seem to know things but I don't hear back from them. I know the Grindles seem to be very elusive from that time period, but I cannot imagine there not being some kind of a record of them. I do however believe that the name had several spellings over the years and that could be a factor in throwing us off.

Re: Looking for my Grindle family line

glen_ashe_ — 2012-02-14 01:22:51Z

There is also a Charles Hutchins Grindle married to Nancy (Grindell) Grindle, Dau of Reuben Grindle 1st and Hannah (Lowell) Grindle. Penobscot, Hancock County, Maine.

Re: John Grindle

LeslieBakst — 2012-02-13 21:48:37Z

Has anyone who is searching for John of 1750 ever been able to check the lutheran church records from Germany? I went to the local branch of the mormon church family history center here in town and they told me lutheran church records are a good bet. Of course, this is easy for them to say because none of us seem to know where he came from. Does anyone have a world subscription to Ancestry? Mine is just the states.

Robert Brighton Grindle & descendants

LindaDudman — 2012-01-27 12:46:39Z

A conundrum: I have Robert B Grindle marrying Florence Haughton in 1895, Sydney, NSW, Australia (reg no 4260). I have Robert Brighton Grindle marrying Florence Annie Haughton (nee Sheridan) on 14 Aug 1898, St Stephen's, Walworth, Southwark. The 1901 census says that their daughter Aley Grindle was born in Sydney. Has anyone come across this family? Why would they have two marriages? Both Robert and Florence were in England at the time of the 1891 and 1901 censuses although both married to former partners at the time of the 1891 census (Robert to Martha Harrison/Florence to Sidney Haughton).

Re: Grindles of PA/OH, especially John, Jacob and Henry

TeddieAllison — 2012-01-04 01:31:04Z

Leslie - email me at Teddie.Allison@gmail.com. I can help you with this as I have been doing extensive research on them for over 17 years. Corresponding on the rootsweb site isn't sufficient to give you all the information that is known on these men. As I mentioned earlier I am also the administrator of the GRINDLE DNA PROJECT which is designed to help answer your relationship question via dna. There are several other of us cousins who have been sharing our findings with one another and have developed quite a body of information as a result. The issue of whether or not they are brothers has yet to be solved, but my suspicion is that they are NOT. We need far more Grindle men participants to help answer this important question.
Teddie Grindle Allison

Grindles of PA/OH, especially John, Jacob and Henry

LeslieBakst — 2012-01-03 22:19:18Z

OK, I am getting positively FLUSTERED. I have been getting SO much conflicting information and I was wondering if anyone could help me. My line goes something like this: John (of John/Susannah), John II, Abraham (A.G.), Ralph, Ethel. I am having problems with the dates and I think some information may either be incorrect or missing. I have seen some trees where the parent is listed as about 60 years old when they had a child. I find that very hard to believe. I have looked at the censuses from 1790 on up, and have found a war record referring to all 3 of them on the same page, serving between the years of 1780-1782. This leads me to *believe* that they were brothers. I am trying to verify what their children's names were. I have John's kids as: David, Catherine, Elizabeth, Mary, Susannah, John Jr, Christian, and Daniel. I have Jacob's kids as: Christina, Conrad, Daniel, Elizabeth, Henry, Jacob Jr, John and John Henry. I do not have any listings of Henry's children. Is anyone experienced with this line? I know information is hard to come by. Thank you in advance!

Re: Ethel Grindle from Connellsville, PA

BarbBrown60 — 2011-12-30 12:18:30Z

I will try to do some research for you this weekend... and teddie, i will remind my brother about the dna testing.. we alsmost lost him this past june. he ha a very serious acciden and we were not sure he was going to make it.. Barb

Re: Ethel Grindle from Connellsville, PA

LeslieBakst — 2011-12-26 23:34:08Z

I am in California. I never actually have been to PA but this is where my roots lie (I was adopted when I was a baby). The Laura I am looking for was married to Ralph Grindle and she was probably born around 1860's or 1870's. I have not been able to determine her maiden name. I think now my biggest problem is identifying the earliest ancestors (AKA John Grindle from the 1750's). It seems as though there is a lot of conflicting information, like if they were from Germany or Holland. Does anyone know?

Re: Ethel Grindle from Connellsville, PA

Blakley69 — 2011-12-26 19:11:16Z

Have you got any where with this? Now I have a aunt Laura, I'm not sure if that is the Laura you may be looking for. Where are you located? We are in Pittsburgh,Pa.