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 1838 - 1879 (~ 41 years)
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| Name |
Thomas GREGORY |
| Christened |
19 Jul 1838 |
Faversham, Kent, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
11 Sep 1879 |
Faversham, Kent, England |
| Person ID |
I2247 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
19 Jan 2020 |
| Father |
Edward GREGORY, c. 13 Dec 1797, Faversham, Kent, England , bur. 19 Apr 1857, Faversham, Kent, England (Age ~ 59 years) |
| Mother |
Christian MILSTED, c. 26 Jul 1801, Faversham, Kent, England , d. June quarter 1871 2a, 433, Faversham, Kent, England |
| Married |
3 Mar 1821 |
Faversham, Kent, England [4] |
| Family ID |
F503 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Emma AUSTIN, b. Abt 1842, Ospringe, Kent, England , d. Abt 1934, Preston-Faversham, Kent, England (Age ~ 92 years) |
| Married |
21 Jul 1861 |
Preston-next-Faversham, Kent, England [5] |
| Children |
| | 1. Thomas George GREGORY, c. 29 Jun 1862, Faversham, Kent, England |
| | 2. William GREGORY, b. 4 Oct 1863, Faversham, Kent, England , d. Mar Qtr 1952, Sittingbourne District, Kent, England (vol. 5b, p. 895) (Age 88 years) |
| | 3. Austin Edward GREGORY, b. 1866, Faversham, Kent, England , d. Bef 25 May 1945 (Age < 79 years) |
| | 4. Edith Sarah Elizabeth GREGORY, c. 21 Jun 1868, Faversham, Kent, England |
| | 5. Walter GREGORY, c. 4 Sep 1870, Faversham, Kent, England |
| | 6. Harriet GREGORY, c. 9 Mar 1873, Faversham, Kent, England |
| | 7. Frederick GREGORY, c. 2 May 1875, Faversham, Kent, England |
| | 8. Christianna GREGORY, c. 13 May 1877, Faversham, Kent, England |
| | 9. George GREGORY, c. 18 May 1879, Faversham, Kent, England , d. 4 Nov 1959, 18 Priory Row, Faversham, Kent, England (Age ~ 80 years) |
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| Last Modified |
20 Mar 2022 |
| Family ID |
F980 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- About 1860 Thomas married Emma Austin. By the time of the 1871 census the family was living at the Brents, Preston with five of their nine children: Thomas G., William, Austin E., Edith Sarah Elizabeth, and Walter. Thomas, following the family tradition, was a mariner.
By 1881 Emma had been widowed, Thomas having drowned during September of 1879. The family was still living at the Brents and son, Thomas, had taken up the occupation of mariner. William and Austin were working as brickfield labourers.
The last of Thomas' children, George, was born a short six months before his father's death in 1879. Emma (nee Austen) died during 1934.
Of the nine children only one is known to have died unmarried - Frederick. George Gregory, who died during 1993 was the son of George, one of Thomas and Emma's sons and was able to provide some details of this branch of the Gregory family. He always said that his cousin Chrissey was a great source for the family's history. She died during 1992. Christiana, Chrissey's mother and daguther of Thomas, married John Quarrington and had one other child - Harold John Quarrington, in 1904..
Harriet married William Hyland and together they were landlords of the Willow Tap, a hostelry on Church Road in Faversham, for almost 38 years.
Walter was a master mariner involved with continental trade and as George described him 'a gay Lothario". Walter's career ended when he suffered a stroke at age 47 and had to come ashore. he married twice. His first wife was a belgian who owned a cafe in Ostend. Whilst Walter was on a particularly long voyage his wife sold the cafe and decamped with an American to parts unknown.
Edith Sarah Elizabeth married Victor Field, master of the barge "Wave Faversham". The "Wave" was a sailing barge (#45237) of 317 tons engaged in the coasting trade. Victor's brother, Thomas, worked as his first mate. Edith and Victor had three daughters - Jessie, Florence and Dolly. All daughters married but only Florence survived to a ripe old age. Sadly, Dolly died of Cancer circa 1927 and Jessie, inconsolably depressed, hung herself.
Austin also married. His only child died of tuberculosis at a young age.
William married and had two sons, William, Jr. and Stanley Arthur. William, Jr.'s son, Jack, became a member of the Atomic Research Council and was sent to Canada circa 1944.
Thomas George did marry but died without issue.
George (George's father) apparently hated the sight of the sea and instead took up farming. He operated Ham Farm of approximately 250 acres for some 42 years. On his retirement in 1936 his son, George, took over until 1961. At that time, the farm, then too large for George Jr., to manage, was sold and a general store purchased. George sold the store during 1972 and joined the Medway Ports Authority as a bridgeman. George Jr. married circa 1937 and had two children - Ann and Christopher. Although he did not elucidate on Ann's background, what George did write in letters leads me to believe that the two had a very close relationship. George was very proud of his two children and took great pleasure in his son's seafaring ways: Christopher, at that time, was a master mariner commanding the ferry "Pride of Calais" three times daily to France.
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- [S53] 1871 Census, England and Wales, Office of National Statistics, Register General Office, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), LDS Film #0838717-0838718, Preston-next-Faversham, 2 Apr 1871.
30 Brents, Preston:
Thomas Gregory, head, married, 32, mariner, born at Faversham
Emma, wife, married, 28, born at Ospringe
Thomas G., son, 8, scholar, born at Preston
William, son, 7, scholar, born at Preston
Austin E., son, 5, scholar, born at Preston
Edith S.E., daughter, 2, born at Preston
Walter, son, 7 months, born at Preston
- [S73] Personal correspondence written by George Gregory to Susan Dara Young, George Gregory, (Not published), 27 Mar 1992.
"My grandfather did live at 48 Front Brents which was one of four houses built by Jesse Last, who married a daughter of George, your great-grandfather's brother."
- [S73] Personal correspondence written by George Gregory to Susan Dara Young, George Gregory, (Not published), 27 Mar 1992.
"My grandfather, Thomas, your great-grandfather's brother, was drowned when my father was only six months old, in 1870, not sure but I have his Memoriam Card somewhere so I will check. My grandmother lived at number 48 until her death at 91 years, how ghastly to be left with 9 children in those awful hard days!!."
- [S34] Parish Register, England, Kent: Church of England, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), LDS Film #1886148, 1821 entry #245, 3 Mar 1821.
Marriage entry of Edward Gregory, of this parish [Faversham], bachelor and Christiana Milstead, of this parish, spinster who were married in this church [Faversham] by banns on the 3rd day of March 1821. Witnesses were Edward K. Smith and Hart Chapman.
- [S34] Parish Register, England, Kent: Church of England, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), Preston-next-Faversham, Kent, England, LDS #2354700, 21 Jul 1861.
#198, page 99:
Thomas Gregory, full age, bachelor, mariner, of Preston-Faversham, father Edward Gregory, mariner and Emma Austin, a minor, spinster, no occupation, of Preston-Faversham, father James Austin, labourer. Witnesses: Henry Smeed and Emma Duncan.
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