Daniel GREGORY

Daniel GREGORY[1, 2]

Male 1831 - 1886  (~ 55 years)

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  • Name Daniel GREGORY 
    Christened 2 Sep 1831  Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Buried 15 Oct 1886  Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2243  Young Kent Ancestors
    Last Modified 27 Jun 2021 

    Father Edward GREGORY,   c. 13 Dec 1797, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 19 Apr 1857, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 59 years) 
    Mother Christian MILSTED,   c. 26 Jul 1801, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. June quarter 1871 2a, 433, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 3 Mar 1821  Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Family ID F503  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mercy HOBBS,   b. 1833, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 25 Dec 1853  Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Children 
     1. Emma Eliza GREGORY,   c. 1 Apr 1855, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Edward GREGORY,   b. Dec Qtr 1857, Herne Bay or Oare, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Oct 1932, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 75 years)
     3. Henry William GREGORY,   b. Jun Qtr 1859, Oare, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Henry John GREGORY,   b. Sep Qtr 1864, Oare, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Lilly Annetta GREGORY,   b. Jun Qtr 1874, Oare, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1901/1911  (Age ~ 37 years)
    Last Modified 20 Mar 2022 
    Family ID F978  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • The fifth child of Edward and Christian Gregory, Daniel started his employment years as an apprentice with his father dredging for oysters.

      On December 25th, 1853, Daniel married Mercy Hobbs and had his first child at Faversham, Emma Eliza who was christened on 1 April 1855 in Faversham parish church. By 1857 the family had moved to Oare where two more children were born - Edward and William. At the time of the 1861 census Daniel and family were living at "the Cottages", Luddenham and Daniel continued in his occupation as dredger. The family returned to Faversham during the early 1860s and two more children were born - Henry and Lilly A.. Also during 1875 Daniel's eldest daughter, Emma Eliza married Robert Edward Claringbould (also known as Cladingbold), a gardener at Stourmouth.

      By 1881 Daniel, his wife and the two youngest children were living on Seagate Street in Folkestone, their two oldest children already having married. Daniel had become a licensed victualler.

  • Sources 
    1. [S54] 1881 Census, England, Office of National Statistics, General Register Office, Kew, Surrey, England, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), LDS Film #1341239, RG11/1008, folio 30, page 53, Folkestone, 3 Apr 1881.
      Seagate Street, Folkestone:
      Daniel Gregory, head, married, 50 licensed victualler, born at Faversham
      Mercy, wife, married, 46, born at Faversham
      Henry, son, unmarried, 16, bricklayer's labourer, born at Faversham
      Lilly A., daughter, 6, born at Faversham.

    2. [S132] Newspaper, Various, (Various), Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald 24 October 1874, p. 3, col. 4, 24 Oct 1874.

      Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald 24 October 1874, p. 3, col. 4


      HERNE BAY
      THE HERNE BAY OYSTER FISHERY.

      At the adjourned inquiry held at the Town Hall, on Friday, the 16th inst., the first witness called was Thomas Walker, of Westbrook. Witness stated that the land occupied by him extended nearly to the foreshore. He had taken great interest in oysters, and had dredged all over the ground before the Act passed. Had found occasionally an oyster. They were good, well-fed, fit to eat, and in his opinion a good marketable oyster....

      Daniel Gregory, in the Company's employ as dredgerman, new the state of the ground before the Company's Act was passed. He had caught oysters there and opened them. They were rather indifferent; and were best just below Beltinge. He came into the Company's employ in 1867. He superinteded destroying the mussel-bed in 1872 or 1873. There were no mussels there now.

      Cross-examined - He had found large quatities of oysters there before the Act was passed. Used to catch brood, half-ware and ware, and sold them to Faversham, Whitstable, and other Companies. Had never sold the oysters by themselves, but had sold oysters, bood, etc., altogether. The Company had now eight boats, including the two market boats. He remembered his brother working on the ground catching mussels and five fingers.

      On the next day-

      ...Mr. Humphrey had stated that the oysters found on the ground were unmarketable, and that the oysters, half-ware, and brood, were all put together and sold at one price. This evidence was corroborated by the evidence of Daniel Gregroy, called by the Company, who also stated that he used to sell the oysters half-ware and brood altogether at one price. Then as to the state of the ground since the Act. He agreed that he had no right to go into the state of the ground except as it affected the production of well-fed oysters. The evidence, however, was very valuable to test the opposite witnesses.

      ....George Gregory was there in 1868 from a fortnight after Michaelmas till the following spring, and during that time sent to Faversham and sold fourrteen or fifteen thousand bushels (or 350 tons) of mussels, five-fingers and stuff on which they were beached. Hodge was there at the same time catching five-fingers. Daniel Gregory, one of the Company's witnesses, remembers his brother there.

    3. [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.

    4. [S34] Parish Register, England, Kent: Church of England, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), LDS Film #1886148-1886149, Entry #457, 1853Faversham, Kent, 25 Dec 1853.
      Married December 25, 1853, Daniel Gregory, 22, dredger, residence at Faversham, father Edward Gregory, mariner, to Mercy Hobbs, 19, no occupation, residence at Faversham, father Stephen Hobbs, labourer. Witnesses: Alfred and Sarah Hobbs.