Grubb Family Tree

From the Kildare Heritage Project:

Abraham was born on 27 th August 1696 in Yorkshire, the youngest child of Richard and Sarah Shackleton. Despite the death of his father when he was six years old, Abraham was influenced by his religious nature, and was described as a quiet and studious child.

He became an assistant in the school of David Hall in Skipton, where he was to meet his future wife , Margaret Wilkinson. He then came to Ireland as a tutor for two families, the Coopers and the Ducketts. It was from these men that he received the encouragement to open a boarding school. He became the first master of Ballitore School when it was opened on 1 st March, 1726, when he was 29. His nondenominational school was a great success, with 38 pupils at first, and the numbers steadily increased. Abraham and his wife had two children, Richard born in 1726 and Elizabeth, born in 1732. He died on Midsummer’s Day 1771, surrounded by his family.