Walter GREGORY

Walter GREGORY[1]

Male 1870 -

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  • Name Walter GREGORY 
    Christened 4 Sep 1870  Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Person ID I2311  Young Kent Ancestors
    Last Modified 31 Aug 2013 

    Father Thomas GREGORY,   c. 19 Jul 1838, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 11 Sep 1879, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 41 years) 
    Mother Emma AUSTIN,   b. Abt 1842, Ospringe, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1934, Preston-Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 92 years) 
    Married 21 Jul 1861  Preston-next-Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Family ID F980  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S73] Personal correspondence written by George Gregory to Susan Dara Young, George Gregory, (Not published), 3 Feb 1992.
      "Walter was a master mariner, home trade, purely continental trade, a gay Lothario. He had a stroke at 47 years and had to come ashore. He married twice. His first wife was Belgian. She had a cafe in Ostend, whilst he was on one voyage, she sold the business and decamped with an American."
      In 1911 a Walter Gregory who was born at Faversham, aged 41 and married, was master of the Lord Lansdowne #98099, 120 ton sailing ketch out of London, which was at the harbour of Kings Lynn, Norfolk. The ship was registered for home and coasting trade, Date 27 March 1911.

    2. [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.