| GRANBERRY |
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| "THE GRANBERRY FAMILY and Allied Families" Waterman - Jacobus |
| GRANBERRY GENEALOGY Variations to spelling include Cranberry,Cranbury,Grandberry,and Grandbury. The town of Granbury,TX was named after a Granberry descendant. The name is first found in 1551 in the parish of Cranburye in Hampshire, England. The first person in written records is found in 1280--John de Crennebere--in Devon County. The first Granberry's found in the United States are William and John, both adult males in the 1650's. In the next age group were William, Samuel, John, and Peter. In the next group were Samuel(2), John, and Moses. |
| The Collins and Travis Families and Their Allies: The Interrelationships of Twenty-Five Southern Colonial Families, 1982, Hederman Brothers Press, by Mary Collins Landin. There is a chapter on our Granberry family and a chapter on our Travises, plus all their allies in different chapters. 433 pages + numerous appendices. Available from the Author LANDINMC@aol.com or the Old Capitol Museum Book Shop in Jackson, Mississippi Mary Collins Landin Utica, Hinds County, MS (my line of Granberry in Mississippi: Martha Jane Granberry m. Ezekial Stafford Travis (full brother and sister of Jonathan and Nancy Ann Travis Granberry), to James Granberry Travis and his wife Susan Merrill, to Madison Granberry Travis and his wife Penelope Jane (Nellie) Ellis, to my mother Nell Ellis Travis who m. Thomas Edward Collins Jr. Sgt. Moses Granberry, father of Jonathan and Martha Jane, was in the RevWar. Ezekial and Nancy Ann's father Simeon was not in the RevWar, but their grandfather William Mills Travis was, back in NC.) Jonathan and Simeon were in the War of 1812 (father-in-law and son-in-law). |