Grunnill Family History Skegness

Written by Angela Gooch on December 25th, 2007 in Family History, Lifeboat.

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The Grunnill family is long established in Skegness. Some of its members have been prominent in coast guard and seafaring activities.

The 1841 census of Skegness records only one Grunnill. He was Thomas, born in 1816 and he was a fisherman. Thomas was living at Marine Villa with Mary Grunnill and Henry Moody.

Grunnill Family Tree

Grunnill Burials

Grateful thanks to Florian Baker who supplied the photo below photo of her great aunt, Susannah Sophia Grunnill b1887 in Skegness.

Susannah Sophia Grunnill married the uncle of Florian’s father, Henry Watson Hartwell. She was the third daughter of
Joseph Grunnill and Harriet nee Jackson. Susannah had one child, Olive who married Frank Crawford, a successful baker in Skegness. They had no children and Olive died in 1970.

susannah grunnill portrait skegness