Gregory Family Tree has Deep Roots

I have for some time now been researching our Family tree. That is to say, I’m looking into the Gregory lineage. Being adopted hampered me from researching my Irish / West Indian lineage for some time

A the time of writing (2005) had planned to look into the Irish side too, though as I was in touch with my birth mother. At this time, I had not located my birth father’s family.

I am by birth a Geoghegan (Geygan,) which is a popular and common name in Eire.

Derbyshire Gregory’s

The Gregory family tree from Derbyshire is absolutely massive, though. I got a copy of my dad’s immediate line from an old lady who lives in Tideswell. She was born a Gregory but married into the Hunstone Family. (Another Notable Tideswell Family).

At the moment, I have only just scraped the surface with a few names and dates, but hopefully, as time passes, I hope to have a deeply interesting log of who the Gregory family really were.

What I have managed to discover from just the briefest of looks at the family tree and corresponding documents is that the Gregories have been moving around from town to town and village to village over the last few hundred years.  I managed to trace our particular branch of Gregory back to the Youlgreave area, finding instances in Elton, Winster, Stanton, Birchover and Matlock.

Today, Matlock has the highest incidence of Gregory’s of any town in the whole country.  In Great Britain, 36,854 people share the surname Gregory, according to our estimation

The surname Gregory is the 223^rd most common name in Great Britain.

Are you a Gregory? Perhaps you can tell me something about your particular Gregory Branch?