Yvonne McKissock - The Groom Family of Buckinghamshire London Tasmania & Fiji BOOK 2 Buckinghamshire London Tasmania

THE GROOMFAMILY OF

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

London Tasmania &Fiji

Book 2
Buckinghamshire London Tasmania

Yvonne McKissock

Copyright 2016 Yvonne McKissock
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Dedication

To understand where your family comes fromis so important, for any human being. The number one thing thepeople should do in life is to find out their culturalheritage.

I would like to dedicate this book to mygreat grandfather Arthur Groom
My grandmother Winifred Agnes Jennings nee Groom
My mother Pauline Kathleen Cullen nee Jennings

Acknowledgement and Thanks

Alana Blake my daughter for all her love,support and patients with my published books.

My mother Pauline Jennings RIP for old photosand family information.

Anne Richmond, my very special sister foryour love and support throughout my books and also the love andsupport from your children Jelaine, Kane and Isaac Richmond.

I would like thank my two favourite Doreensin my life (Elliott/ Sloan) who has given me a lot of love andsupport over all these years and all they want in return are theirchildren and grandchildren to know their family history. LolomaYvonne.

My mothers brother Arthur Jennings &Gloria Jennings who has always loved and supported me in my books.Loloma EE.

Australia

Irene Schaffer, Research Agent & Author,Rosetta, Tasmania

Barry Aulich researcher in Tasmania

Ken Briar (USA) Wright familydocumentation

South Africa Genealogist Anne Lehmkuhl

England

Anthony Adolph

This book is based on F.G. Grooms TheGrooms of Harefield (Tasmania, Australia, 1985), which wasreworked and added to extensively by Yvonne McKissock. Her work wasin turn reworked into its present form and amplified by newresearch in Britain in 2015 by Anthony Adolph, a professionalgenealogist and broadcaster, author of books including TracingYour Family History and In Search of our AncientAncestors.

Sally Mason, Archivist, Centre forBuckinghamshire, Buckinghamshire County Council

About the Author

Born and raised in New Zealand, Yvonne nowresides in Sydney, NSW, Australia with her daughter, son in law and2 grandchildren. She has been interested in family history as longas she can remember and has published two family history books. Herinterests vary from reading, travelling, family photography,collecting old family photos, spending time with the younggrandchildren and among others.

Table of Contents

Introduction

I have been very interested for twenty yearsplus in compiling my family history. I have met very interestingpeople on the way. I have published in 2009 Jennings Family ofTonga my grandfathers side of the family. Also in 2009 Ipublished Harman Family from Yorkshire to Fiji.

Both these books have documented familydescendants of Tonga and Fiji to 2008 in the near future will berepublished into Ebooks.

I have always been very interested overtwenty years plus on my grandmothers Groom side of the family inFiji. There has never been any documentation wriiten on the FijiGroom family. All the documentation I have noticed over the yearsand via internet have been on our Groom in Tasmania, Australia andEngland. In Tasmania when James Henry Groom is mention it mainlystates family in Fiji. Now I feel our family is recognised in thedescendants of the Groom family of Tasmania and England.

The Groom family of Buckinghamshire, London,Tasmania, Fiji is a collation of the 17 generations of descendantsfrom 1550 Stoke Poges, Harefield, London, Tasmania,Australia and Fiji. These two ebooks outlines the history andfamily genealogy of 17 generations from Agnes and son WylliamGrome, 1550, Stoke Poges, a town in Buckinghamshire, England.

It has a detail record of births, deaths andmarriages and photos of descendants up to 2015

I have separated the book into 2 ebooks.

Book 1: Fiji 7 Generations

Jorel Underwood born 2011 with his 7 x, greatgrandfather JamesFoster Groom

Fiji Descendants: James Henry Groom went toFiji with his brother Warner in 1869 as early settlers.Warner married and had no descendants. James Henry has over 90pages of descendants. I have documented births, marriages anddeaths of about 98 % of descendants in Fiji. The family is mainlyscattered from Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Great Britain, Europeand USA.

Book 2: 10 Generations

James Henry Groom left Fiji and went back toHarefield, Tasmania with his health deteriorating and to be withhis siblings. His grandfather James Foster Groom 1786 inLondon has been well documented in the book also his ancestoralfamily -James Groom 1760, Henry Groom 1735, Henry Groom 1710, JohnRose Groom 1655, John Groom 1620, Nycholas Grome 1573, WilliamGrome 1550 and his mother Agnes Groume.

England: Anthony Adolph

This book is based on F.G. Grooms The Groomsof Harefield (Tasmania, Australia, 1985), which was reworked andadded to extensively by Yvonne McKissock. Her work was in turnreworked into its present form and amplified by new research inBritain in 2015 by Anthony Adolph, a professional genealogist andbroadcaster, author of books including Tracing Your Family Historyand In Search of our Ancient Ancestors.

Map ofEngland

Section 1

The Groom Family inEngland

10 Generations ofDescendants

Chapter 1

Agnes Groume

The earliest generations of this family werein Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, whose parish registers survivefrom 1564. The earliest ancestor was probably:

Grome

He lived in Stoke Poges and we know of himonly because there exists a will for Agnes Groume, widow, which waswritten on 23 October 1580 and proved on 2 January 1580 in theArchdeaconry Court of Buckingham. Her place of residence is notstated, but as the other Gro(u)me wills of this period are fromStoke Poges it is entirely reasonable to assume that this one wastoo. She left, as far as can be deciphered from the oldhandwriting:

To Mary my daughter a new cobbrode(cupboard?) a bedstead a mattress a covering a blanket and bolster3 pairs of flaxen sheets a pair of harden(?) sheets