Welcome to our Grobb/Grubb

Family Genealogy

           This website was first posted to Internet in 2001-2003 by Linton E. Love who by 2010 needed to reduce his genealogy activity. Concerned this information might not be available to other researchers he approached Mrs. Pat High of Jordan Station, Ontario, who is well acquainted with the history of the Mennonite families in the Niagara area. Pat agreed to become the webmaster of this and other websites involving local Mennonite families. We have not changed the content of this file so it will read as from the perspective of Linton Love

            This is an attempt to trace all descendants of our HEINRICH GRUBB who arrived in Frederick Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in 1717, from Switzerland. This research was plagued with many problems in sorting out other Grubbs who arrived in America at the beginning of the 18^th century. The one who was most confusing was a Heinrich Grubb who arrived in Vincent Township, Chester County, Pa. in 1743. This was only about 20 miles from where our Heinrich settled. To make it more confusing not only was he from Switzerland but he named his children with the same names common in our ancestors. It is very possible the two families were related back in Switzerland. In the biographical notes for our Heinrich you will find a discussion on the most likely place in Switzerland where he originated.

           In doing the research I quickly became aware of many more Grubbs who are not related, at least not in America. There were those who came from England and Wales and settled in Delaware County and in the southern end of Montgomery and Chester Counties of Pa. They started to arrive about 1700. It is hard to keep these separated as some of them started to spread north and some of our ancestors started to move south into those counties. There was also a prominent family of Grubbs who came from England and settled in the Lancaster area. They were involved with the iron industry and prominent in local politics. Then in Canada there were Grubbs who arrived from Scotland whose ancestors originally came from Denmark,

           A word is needed here to explain the two different spellings. My g-g-grandfather Abraham Grubb brought his family to Canada in 1800. He was the son of Abraham Grubb who was the son of our original Heinrich Grubb. On arrival in Canada he immediately changed the spelling to Grobb and all of his descendants have carried on that same spelling.

           As of 20 December 2009 there are 4,035 Grobb/Grubb related individuals in this database. I sincerely hope you will find some of your ancestors in these pages. And I especially hope you will find some new and interesting details about them.

           As of 20 December 2009 there are 4,035 Grobb/Grubb related individuals in this database. I sincerely hope you will find some of your ancestors in these pages. And I especially hope you will find some new and interesting details about them.

Please note this will be the last version Linton E. Love will be uploading to this website and I will not be adding any new information at the present time. If you have questions concerning any information on this site I would be pleased to respond to your query with any assistance I can offer. You can contact me by using the e-mail link below:

Last updated 20 December 2009

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