Tour Scotland Video Jessie Roger Grubb Memorial Window Martyrs Church St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the Jessie Roger Grubb Memorial stained glass window in Martyrs Church on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to St Andrews, Fife. Jessie was born Janet Bett on 5th February, 1870 at Burnside, Auchtermuchty, Cupar, Fife, Scotland. Her parents were James Bett, a Gas Manager, and Janet Roger. Jessie was 26 when she married 48 year old Charles Grubb, a Grocer and Wine Merchant, on 15th June, 1896 at Don's Bank, Auchtermuchty. His parents were Charles Maitland Grubb, a Porter and Farmer at different times, and Maria Watson Gardiner. Jessie and Charles lived at St Columba's, 1 Murray Park, St Andrews, at least from 1915 until her death. Charles owned houses and shops at 84 and 86 Market Street where he had his own shop, and others which he let out to various businesses and tenants. Charles died of Cerebral Apoplexy at Kilmorack, Pitlochry, Perthshire on 7th June, 1925, aged 77. Jessie died from Arterio Sclerosis, aged 78, at home on 3rd February 1948. Above is the stained glass window in her memory in the Martyrs' Church, North Street, St Andrews.

This interesting surname, 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.

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