William Gregory (abt. 1470 - aft. 1503)

Born about 1470 in Highhurst, Lancashire, England

Descendants

Died after 1503 after about age 33 in Lancashire, England

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Biography

1567 Visitation

William is known from the 1567 Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster. It says simply that William Gregory of Highhurst was lineally descended from Adam Gregory (not his son) and was married to Dorothy Parre, daughter of William Parr, gentleman of Kempenhaughe, co. Lancaster.^[1][2]

Highhurst was in the township of Tyldesley with Shakerley, parish of Leigh, West Derby hundred (about 10 miles west of Manchester), Lancashire, England. ^[3]

Grant Gregory believed William to have been a juror, in 1503, in a suit between James Pemberton and Geoffrey Molyneux.^[4]

The couple had issue: John, Hugh, and another named John according to the pedigree.^[1] Grant Gregory in The Gregory Genealogy points out what he believes to be an error probably on the part of a transcriber, that there were not two sons named John, but John of Pagham & Highhurst, probably son of William, and his son John, spouse of Anne Oneslow.^[4]

• Hugh, their second son, continues the line to Henry Gregory, the immigrant.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Flower, Francis. The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster: Made In the Year 1567. ([Manchester]: Printed for the Chetham Society, 1870.) p. 7
2. ↑ Space:Gregory:_The_English_Pedigree
3. ↑ John Insley Coddington, Some Ancestors of Henry Gregory: Worsley and Parr, 38+ Volumes (New Haven, Connecticut: The American Genealogist (TAG)), Vol 38: pp 171-174. Link at AmericanAncestors ($)
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Gregory, Grant. Ancestors and descendants of Henry Gregory. (Provincetown, Mass., The Compiler, 1938.) p. 17

• N. Grier Parke II, edited by Donald Lines Jacobus, The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and His Wife, Arabella Bosworth, Woodstock, VT: The Elm Tree Press, 1960, pp 228-230
• “The Gregory Family.” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 23. 1869. p. 306
• Henry Marvin Benedict, The Genealogy of the Benedicts in America (Joel Munsell, publisher, 82 State Street, Albany NY: 1870) p. 49
• Space:Gregory:_The_English_Pedigree

Estimated Birth Dates, based roughly on 30 years between generations.

William m. Dorothy Parr c. 1470

Hugh m. Maria c. 1500

Thomas m. Dorothy Beeston c. 1520

John Gregory m. Alice c. 1550

Henry the immigrant c 1580, 1590