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Excerpt from The Grout Family, Vol. 2: Reprinted in Facsimile; From the Genealogy of the Descendants of Several Ancient Puritans by the Names of Adams, Bullard, Holbrook, Rockwood, Sanger, Wood, Grout, Goulding and Twitchell Now if none of Sir Richard Groutte's ancestors, with a Saxon name, reached the Peerage, and he thought to improve his prospects by changing it completely, if not already done, into Norman French, as others certainly did their Saxon names, it is probable that his brothers, if he had any, imitated the example; and that from this family have sprung the Grouts of England and America. But all of the name might have descended from him. If knighted at the age of 25, he might have been the grandfather, and if at the age of 46, the great-grandfather of John and William Grout, the first two of the name mentioned in our records. The non-occurrence of the name of Richard in the family register is no objec tion, because it was a non-scriptural name, and therefore, in the estimation of Puritans, deserved exclusion. For the same probable reason, John Grout named no son for his brother William, who evidently named one for John. That these brothers were the descendants of Sir Richard G. Is inferred from circumstances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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