Thomas Gregory (abt. 1520)

Born about 1520 in Broughton, Nottinghamshire, England [uncertain]

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Died [date unknown] in Nottinghamshire, England

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Biography

Thomas Gregory was born in England.

The 1662/64 Visitation of Nottinghamshire calls this son of Hugh, spouse of Dorothy, "William".^[1] Thoroton's 1677 printing of the pedigree calls him "Thomas." Thoroton explains that in 1662, George Gregory, not "exhibiting such suffcient proof as since he hath ... " perhaps explaining the change from William to Thomas. ^[2] Most subsequent printings have used Thomas.

Visitation 1662/1664

Thoroton Pedigree (1677)

Thomas Gregory of Overbroughton, co. Nottinghamshire, was the son of Hugh Gregory and Maria. He married Dorothy Beeston.^[2]

He was farmer and a grazier, in Broughton Sulney, Nottinghamshire (later called Over Broughton and Upper Broughton). Thomas Gregory was born about 1520.^[3][4] Overbroughton, Nottinghamshire, was on the border of Leicestershire, north of Frisby and Asorby.^[5] Thomas and his son John were perhaps tenants of Broughton-Sulney Manor.^[4]

1. John is the only child mentioned in the sources.

Sources

1. ↑ Dugdale, William (Norroy King of Arms) The Visitation of Nottinghamshire begun in 1662 and finished in 1664. London: 1986. The Publications of the Harleian Society, New Series Vol 5. p. 31
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Thoroton, Robert. The antiquities of Nottinghamshire extracted out of records, original evidences, leiger books, other manuscripts, and authentick authorities : beautified with maps, prospects, and portraictures. (London: 1677) [pp 497, 498]
3. ↑ John Insley Coddington, Some Ancestors of Henry Gregory: Worsley and Parr, New Haven: The American Genealogist (TAG), Volume 38 pp 171-174
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Gregory, Grant. Ancestors and descendants of Henry Gregory. (Provincetown, Mass., The Compiler, 1938.) p. 20
5. ↑ “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
• 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
• 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