Tour Scotland Video Jessie Roger Grubb Window Martyrs Church St Andrews

Tour Scotland video of of the Jessie Roger Grubb Memorial stained glass window in Martyrs Church on ancestry visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. 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.

The surname Grubb 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.

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