Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameMajor Michael Grissell 
Birth30 Mar 1913, Simla, India
Deathca Nov 1979
FatherCol Bernard Salwey Grissell DSO (ca1879-1917)
MotherMary Olive Wood (ca1878-1947)
Spouses
Marriageca May 1946, MaryLeBone district, London [3, Marriage, Q2 of 1946, Marylebone dist, vol 1A, p. 1342]
Notes for Major Michael Grissell
His birth index:
First name(s) MICHAEL
Last name GRISSELL
Birth year 1913
Place BELGIUM [recte Belgaum]
Country BELGIUM [recte India]
Page 188
Record source GRO Army Birth Indices (1881 to 1965)
Record set British nationals armed forces births 1761-2005
His birth certificate confirms that Mary Olive née Wood was his mother and that his birth was on the 30th March 1913 and adds the information that he was born in Simla and registered at the Norfolk Regiment command at Belgaum [not at Belgium as on FindMyPast’s trancription of the Index, which had it right with Belgaum (I’ve told them).
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In WW2 he was a POW captured on 27 May 1940 as a Lieut and promoted to Captain on 1 Feb 1942.
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No children found.
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His death index:
First name(s) MICHAEL
Last name GRISSELL
Gender Male
Birth day 30
Birth month 3
Birth year 1913
Death quarter 4
Death year 1979
District HASTINGS & ROTHER
County Sussex
Volume 18
Page 1029
Country England
Record set England & Wales deaths 1837-2007
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First name(s) MICHAEL
Last name GRISSELL
Birth year 1913
Place BELGIUM [recte Belgaum]
Country BELGIUM [recte India]
Page 188
Record source GRO Army Birth Indices (1881 to 1965)
Record set British nationals armed forces births 1761-2005
His birth certificate confirms that Mary Olive née Wood was his mother and that his birth was on the 30th March 1913 and adds the information that he was born in Simla and registered at the Norfolk Regiment command at Belgaum [not at Belgium as on FindMyPast’s trancription of the Index, which had it right with Belgaum (I’ve told them).
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In WW2 he was a POW captured on 27 May 1940 as a Lieut and promoted to Captain on 1 Feb 1942.
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No children found.
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His death index:
First name(s) MICHAEL
Last name GRISSELL
Gender Male
Birth day 30
Birth month 3
Birth year 1913
Death quarter 4
Death year 1979
District HASTINGS & ROTHER
County Sussex
Volume 18
Page 1029
Country England
Record set England & Wales deaths 1837-2007
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Notes for Michael & Rosemary Hope (Family)
Their marriage index:
First name(s) MICHAEL
Last name GRISSELL
Marriage quarter 2
Marriage year 1946
MarriageFinder™ MICHAEL GRISSELL married
ROSEMARY H TEW
Spouse's last name TEW
District MARYLEBONE
County London
Country England
Volume 1A
Page 1342
Record set England & Wales marriages 1837-2008
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First name(s) MICHAEL
Last name GRISSELL
Marriage quarter 2
Marriage year 1946
MarriageFinder™ MICHAEL GRISSELL married
ROSEMARY H TEW
Spouse's last name TEW
District MARYLEBONE
County London
Country England
Volume 1A
Page 1342
Record set England & Wales marriages 1837-2008
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