Tour Scotland Photograph J Grubb Gravestone Rattray Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph of the J Grubb gravestone in the churchyard cemetery in Rattray, Perthshire, Scotland. A Colour Sergeant in the Royal Scots Fusiliers, he died 22nd August, 1914, aged 38. The Royal Scots Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1678 until 1959 when it was amalgamated with the Highland Light Infantry, City of Glasgow Regiment, to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers, Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment, which was later itself merged with the Royal Scots Borderers, the Black Watch, Royal Highland Regiment, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the Highlanders, Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons, to form a new large regiment, the Royal Regiment of Scotland. Grubb with variant spellings Grob, Grube, Grubbe etc., derives from the Old German " grube ", a mine, pit, hollow or cavity, from the Old High German verb " grubilon ", to dig, related to the Middle Dutch " grobben ", to scrape, and was originally given as an occupational name to a worker in a mine. The family of Grubbe, spelt in the old registers Grube or Groube, migrated from Germany about the year 1430, after the Hussite persecutions, however, the surname is on record in England from the late 12th Century, suggesting a much earlier initial date of entry. One, Johannes Grubb was noted in the 1379 Poll Tax Returns of Yorkshire. The surname is particularly well recorded in church registers of South West England from the late 16th Century. In 1581, the birth of one, Thomas Grubb is recorded in Devizes, Wiltshire, and on February 18th 1582, Henry Grubb, an infant was christened in Stoke Climsland, Cornwall. The name was introduced into the Irish Counties of Waterford and Tipperary in the mid 17th Century by an English family who settled there. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Richard Grubbe, which was dated 1176, in the " Pipe Rolls of Berkshire ", during the reign of King Henry 11, known as " The Builder of Churches ", born 1154, died 1189. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation.



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