About Us

The Association began with an email from Robert Taylor on the 31st May 2006 asking for interested descendants to get together to discuss how we could support the Ebenezer Church with their 200th anniversary in 2009. Within months the Association started to take shape, and this website was launched on the 16th September 2006.

The aims of the Grono Family Association are:

• Bring together all the various branches of the Grono family.
• Share research into the lives of John Grono, his wife Elizabeth Bristow and their descendants.
• Preserve and share photos of descendants.
• Create an Honour Roll as a tribute to descendants who have served in the army, navy or air force in various military conflicts
• Correct inaccurate information that has been previously published on John Grono, and his descendants.
• Share “stories” about the lives of members of the Grono family, and
• Be a “meeting point” for descendants of John Grono and Elizabeth Bristow, giving information about reunions and events of interest.
• Maintain Grono Family gravesites.
• Support the Ebenezer Uniting Church and Hawkesbury Regional Museum.

The Grono Family Association has been set up as a not-for-profit organisation.

Membership is open to all descendants of John Grono and Elizabeth Bristow and their spouses, as well as anyone interested in Grono family history.

No member of the Grono Family Association committee will be remunerated for their activities; all committee positions are voluntary and unpaid.

Any profits made will be used to further the aims of the association and will not be distributed either directly or indirectly to the members of the Grono Family Association except as bona fide compensation for services rendered or expenses incurred on behalf of the organisation.

In the event that the Grono Family Association should be dissolved, any amount that remains after the payment of all debts and liabilities will be transferred to the Ebenezer Uniting Church.

The committee consists of founding members of the association. Changes to the committee will occur via invitation or expression of interest from current members.

Each year an audited statement of the financial position of the Grono Family Association will be circulated to members.

If you would like to become a member of the Grono Family Association an Application for Membership can be downloaded here.
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The current committee consists of: