Rev. Daniel Gronow

b. Llangyfelach, Glamorgan,

circa 1740.

Carmarthen (Dissenting) Academy 1757-1760 followed by ordination in pastorate of Cilgwyn, Cardiganshire.

At time of marriage: "of Offerton, County of Derby" (near Hathersage, N. Derbyshire),

m. Sarah Thomason, of Manchester, 11th October 1785 at the Church of St Mary, St. Denys and St. George (now Manchester Cathedral).

Daniel d. Alfreton, Derbyshre, 1796.

The Daniel Gronow connection to Jedediah Strutt

Records show that Daniel Gronow first became minister for "a dissenting congregation" at Great Hucklow in
the Derbyshire Peak District some time after 1774.

In 1788, Jedediah Strutt had a unitarian chapel built in Belper next to what was the meeting house founded in 1689. By then, Daniel Gronow had already become a Presbyterian minister at Alfreton, Derbyshire (1782) where he and his family now resided. Records show that at least three of Daniel's four children were baptised at Jedeiah's new unitarian chapel.

More details centre panel below.

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Following John Tunaley's death in 1863, Sarah Wood (nee Gronow) moved to Manchester with her son Joseph close to her widowed daughter Sarah Tunaley (nee wood).

From: The Leeds Mercury, 14th October, 1867:

Marriages

"Wood - Stead, October 10th at

Woodside Church, by the Rev.

Mr.Hoare,

Mr. Joseph Wood, timber merchant,

Manchester, to Fanny Eliza, only

daughter of Jeremiah Stead Esq.

of Outwood House, Horsforth".

Jeremiah Stead was the brother

of Walter Stead, a wealthy wool

manufacturer of Leeds. The

brothers Stead were at one time

part of the firm Steads and

French.

Records kindly provided by

Dr. Jane Holmes confirm that

Joseph Wood, timber merchant,

of Manchester as given in the

1871 Manchester Guardian notice

(centre panel) and Joseph Wood

who married Fanny Eliza Stead

1867, were one and the same

person.

Moreover, they show that in 1881

Joseph Wood employed 25 men and

boys as a timber merchant and

saw-mill proprietor in

Manchester.

This raises the possibility that

John and Sarah Tunaley's three

sons, Mathhew Henry, John Charles

and Thomas Gronow, variously

described as joiner ,carpenter,

timber merchant, were

initially trained/employed by

Joesph Wood.

Sarah Gronow, daughter of Rev. Daniel Gronow and

Sarah (nee Thomason).

b. 1792, Belper, Derbyshire.

m. Matthew Wood, 20th April 1815, Heanor, Derbyshire.

Sarah d. 2/11/1871, Manchester.

Sarah predeceased by Matthew (see item below)- date of Matthew's death unknown.

From: The Manchester Guardian, 11th Novmember 1871

"DIED

On the 2nd November 1871, at 18 Park Street, Cheetham,

Manchester, aged 79, SARAH WOOD, relict of the late Matthew

Wood, of Heanor, Derbyshire, and mother of Joseph Wood, timber

merchant of this city".

(for Sarah's family background see base of this panel)

The small hamlet of Offerton, where Daniel Snr. lived at the time of marriage is now part of Hathersage and not far from Manchester which, having been a market town, was now rapidly expanding at the start of the industrial revolution.

Daniel Snr.'s marriage to Sarah Thomason appears in Cheshire records but it may well be that the actual place of marriage is now part of Greater Manchester. # Update: Records now show the marriage was under licence to the Bishop of Chester with the wedding taking place at the Church of St Mary, St. Denys and St. George (now Manchester Cathedral).

Daniel Gronow Jnr. died 1821 in Cawnpore India aged 32 years.

Sarah Gronow, b. 1791, married Matthew Wood, a lace manufacturer, on 20th April 1815 at St. Lawrence Church, Heanor, Derbyshire,

Their daughter Sarah Wood was born 1822 and married John Tunaley on 20th December 1847, Duffield, Derbyshire.

Sarah Tunaley died June 10th. 1880, aged 58 yeasrs. Sarah buried Uttoxeter New Road Cemetery, Derby.

For further details including information on Joseph Gronow and Matthew Wood click here.

P.H.Tunaley & J.Holmes