Goodwin Family
Gregory Family
Origins
The English name Gregory comes from the Greek “Gregorios” meaning “watchman“ and it became known in the West through St Gregory, first of sixteen popes to bear the name, who sent St Augustine to convert the English. The name became widespread in England in the twelfth century and one of its many bearers became the distant ancestor of our Gregory family. The English surnames Greggs and Griggs also come from the name Gregory.
First generation
First generation
First generation
First generation
John Gregory
The starting point of our Gregory family at present is John Gregory, who married Mary Edwards in Shrewsbury on 3 February 1686. Little is known about the couple except that they had at least four children:
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4.
(1688-?)
(1689-?)
(1695-?)
(1705-?)
m. Alice Davies, 1715
m. Mary Griffiths, 1720
m. Elizabeth Hamons, 1736
m. William Blackburn, 1725
John died in Shrewsbury and was buried at Holy Cross Church on 16 January 1710.
Second generation
Henry Gregory
Henry Gregory, second son of John Gregory and Mary Edwards, was baptised at St Alkmund's Church, Shrewsbury on 13 March 1689. He spent all his life in Shrewsbury and married Mary Griffiths at St Chad's Church there on 25 May 1720.
The couple had four children, but only one is known to have survived to adulthood:
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2.
3.
4.
(1723-1724)
(1725-1800)
(1728-1731)
(1730-?)
m. Jane Philips, 1758
Henry was buried at St Alkmund's Church on 8 May 1731.
Third generation
William Gregory
William Gregory, son of Henry Gregory and Mary Griffiths, was born in Shrewsbury and baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Uffington on 11 July 1725. He became a wheelwright and married Jane Philips at St Lucia's Church, Upton Magna on 7 February 1758.
The couple had one known child:
1.
(1759-?)
William was buried at Holy Cross Church, Shrewsbury on 21 Decmber 1800.
Fourth generation
Ann Gregory
Ann Gregory, daughter of William Gregory and Jane Philips, was baptised at St Lucia's Church, Upton Magna on 8 July 1759. She had an illegitimate son whom she named after her father:
1.
1781-1859
m. Catharine Onions, 1802
Nothing definite is known about Ann after William's birth: she possibly married Richard Elkes in Shawbury on 13 May 1786, but this may be a different person.
Fifth generation
William Gregory
William Gregory, son of Ann Gregory was baptised at St Michael and All Angels' Church, High Ercall on 24 June 1781. He became a limestone miner, and at some point moved the short distance to Wellington, probably to work. He married Catharine Oinyans (or Onions) in Wrockwardine on 12 August 1802 and the couple spent the rest of their lives in Wellington. Catherine was baptised in Wellington on 22 October 1780, and was the daughter of John Onions and his wife Jane Ford; their unusual surname comes from the old Welsh name Einion (“anvil”), and has nothing to do with vegetables!
The couple had four known children:
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2.
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4.
(1805-?)
(1810-1872)
(1812-?)
(1820-1886)
m. Esther Hallett, 1838
m. William Morgan, 1841
Coal and limestone mining were both an important part of the local economy, and many of William and Catharine’s male descendants worked as miners from an early age. William was a miner until at least 1841, but later he worked at the “easier” job of breaking up the limestone ready for the blast furnaces where it was used to make iron.
Catherine was buried in Wellington on 20 May 1855, and William on 27 September 1859.
Sixth generation
William Gregory
William Gregory, the second known child of William Gregory and Catherine Onions, was born in Wellington in about 1810, but unfortunately the relevant pages of the All Saints’ baptismal register are too faint to read, so we do not know the exact date. However, he is listed on the Wellington 1821 census with his parents and siblings - this is a rare early census which lists all household members. William became a coal miner, and followed this trade for nearly all his working life.
He married Anne Davies in Wrockwardine on 29 March 1830 and had a daughter:
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(1832-1907)
m. Charles Bladen, 1856
Anne died when Sarah was still very young and William probably took the baby back to his parents, who seem to have brought her up.
William moved from Wellington to Staffordshire at some point, leaving his daughter with his parents, and he married Esther Hallett in St Giles’ Church, Rowley Regis on 23 July 1838. Esther was baptised in Codsall on 2 January 1820 and was the daughter of John Hallett and Ann Corns.
The couple initially lived in West Bromwich but then moved around Staffordshire before ending up in Wolverhampton. William had eleven more children with Esther:
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John Gregory
Samuel Gregory
Mary Ann Gregory
Susannah Gregory
Elizabeth Gregory
James Gregory
Male Gregory
Enoch Gregory
Eliza Gregory
(1839-1903)
(1840-1916)
(1843-1874)
(1844-1869)
(1846-1861)
(1848-1917)
(1850-1850)
(1851-?)
(1853-1853)
(1854-1908)
(1856-1863)
m. Selina Webster, 1859
m. Mary Ann Goodwin, 1867
m. Ezra Hodgkiss, 1866
m. Edward Lester, 1864
m. Emma Webster, 1870
m. Emma Witts
On the 1871 census, William is recorded as a labourer in one of the Wolverhampton iron works; however his death certificate a year later describes him as a coal miner once again. William died of apoplexy In Wolverhampton on 11 March 1872 and was buried in Merridale Cemetery six days later.
Esther lived for a while with her youngest son Enoch, and then with Samuel and his family. She died of chronic bronchitis in Wolverhampton on 10 January 1893.
Jane Gregory
Jane Gregory, daughter of William Gregory and Catharine Onions, was baptised at All Saints' Church, Wellington on Christmas Day 1820. When she was about eighteen years old she had an illegitimate son whose father is not known:
1.
(1839-1906)
m. Elizabeth Skitt, 1862
Two years later, on 27 September 1841, Jane married William Morgan, a coal miner, at St Peter's Church, Wrockwardine. She had nine more children with him:
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9.
10.
Edward Morgan
William Morgan
Mary Ann Morgan
Jane Morgan
George Morgan
Edwin Morgan
(1842-1917)
(1847-1896)
(1850-1875)
(1851-1891)
(1855-1856)
(1857-?)
(1859-1931)
(1862-1931)
(1865-1947)
m. Mary Ann Hibbert, 1864
m. John Gallagher, 1871
m. Joseph Price, 1878
m. Arthur Henry Hardy, 1887
The family moved to the Wolverhampton area not long after their marriage, before migrating to Yorkshire in the late 1860s.
Jane died in Darton in 1886 and William died in Worsbrough in 1901.
Seventh generation
Sarah Gregory
Sarah Gregory, only child of William Gregory and Anne Davies, was baptised at All Saints' Church, Wellington on 11 July 1832. Her mother died when she was very young, and Sarah was apparently brought up by her maternal grandparents in Wellington: she is recorded living with them on the 1841 census, while her father is in Staffordshire with his second wife.
Jane married Charles Bladen, a brick maker, at All Saints' Church on 22 January 1856. Charles was baptised in Wellington on 16 January 1828 and was the son of William and Elizabeth Bladen. The couple spent all their married life in Wellington and had five children:
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5.
(1858-1858)
(1861-1940)
(1864-1939)
(1868-1949)
(1872-1893)
m. Alice Emma Mason, 1890
m. James William Thomas, 1888
m. Benjamin Frederick Smith, 1887
Charles changed trades in the 1870s, becoming first a baker and later a grocer and shopkeeper.
Sarah died in Wellington in 1907 and Charles in 1908.
John Gregory
John Gregory, oldest child of William Gregory and his second wife Esther Hallett, was born in West Bromwich in 1839. He spent all his working life in the gas tube manufacturing industry: initially in Wolverhampton, and later in Walsall - probably at the Alma Tube Works. He married Selina Webster, a dressmaker, in Bloxwich on 31 January 1859. Selina was born in Rudhall, Staffordshire on 4 September 1841, and was the oldest child of David Webster, a chain maker, and his wife Mary Ann Cross. (John's brother James married Selina's younger sister Emma.)
The couple had six children:
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2.
3.
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5.
6.
Edith Gregory
Eliza Gregory
Clara Gregory
(1860-1872)
(1864-1911)
(1869-1947)
(1873-1874)
(1876-1906)
(1879-?)
m. Henry James Drew, 1883
m. Thomas George Williams, 1899
m. William Benton, 1903
Selina died in Walsall in 1883 at the early age of 40, and the two youngest children went to live with their older sister Eliza when she married later that year.
John died in Walsall in 1905.
Samuel Gregory
Samuel Gregory, son of William Gregory and Esther Hallett, was born in West Bromwich on 25 October 1840 and is recorded living there with his parents and older brother John on the 1841 census. However, he seems to have lived for much of his childhood with his maternal grandmother Ann and her second husband, Frederick Dudley: he is listed as part of their household on both the 1851 and 1861 censuses. As a young man, Samuel worked as a coal miner like his father, but by the time he married he was working as a gas tube fitter in the Britannia Boiler Tube Works (owned by Edwin Lewis and Sons), and he remained there until the works closed in 1929.
Samuel married Mary Ann Goodwin in St Matthew’s Church, Wolverhampton on 30 September 1867. Mary Ann was born in Bridgnorth on 21 January 1843, and was the daughter of John Ambrose Goodwin and his wife Maria Johnson. Mary Ann had a daughter two years before the marriage who subsequently adopted the surname Gregory and a further eight children were born afterwards:
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3.
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6.
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8.
9.
Esther Ann Goodwin (Gregory)
Eliza Edith Gregory
Hannah Gregory
Elizabeth Gregory
William Samuel Gregory
Mary Ann Gregory
Phyllis Mercy Gregory
Alice Gregory
Rosa Amy Gregory
(1865-1943)
(1868-1906)
(1869-1872)
(1872-1872)
(1873-1947)
(1876-1952)
(1879-1882)
(1881-1882)
(1883-1969)
Mary Ann was a midwife, and was registered as “No. 1854” on 25 February 1904 after registration became compulsory.
Four of Samuel and Mary Ann’s children died in infancy, and were buried in Merridale Cemetery.
Samuel and Mary Ann’s only son, William Samuel Gregory, was born in Wolverhampton on 26 January 1873. From the age of 15, he worked as a gas tube fitter at Edwin Lewis & Sons like his father. He never married, and collected books as a hobby, but after his death it was discovered that the roof had leaked and his library was ruined. A book published in 1616 was salvaged: because of the water damage to its cover, an idea grew up in the family that it had been saved from a shipwreck, and the more prosaic truth came as something of a disappointment.
Samuel died of gangrene of the foot in Wolverhampton on 28 September 1916. Mary Ann died of broncho-pneumonia on 3 May 1918 during the “Spanish flu” epidemic.
Mary Ann Gregory
Mary Ann Gregory, daughter of William Gregory and Esther Hallett, was born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire in 1843, and as a teenager went into domestic service in Bilston. She married Ezra Hodgkiss, a miner, at St James' Church Wolverhampton on 20 September 1866. Ezra was born in Wolverhampton in 1844, and was the son of Cornelius Hodgkiss and his wife Elizabeth Smith.
The couple had five children, all born in Wolverhampton, but only two survived past infancy:
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2.
3.
4.
5.
Samuel Ezra Hodgkiss
Clara Ann Hodgkiss
Cornelius Hodgkiss
Esther Hodgkiss
Clara Ann Hodgkiss
(1867-1940)
(1868-1871)
(1870-1870)
(1871-1871)
(1872-1937)
m. Sarah Ellen Cook, 1888
m. William James Boylett, 1897
In 1871 Mary Ann was working as a grocer in Wolverhampton, but she died at the age of 31 and was buried in Merridale Cemetery on 29 November 1874.
Ezra and their two surviving children then went to Lancashire, where he and Samuel were “contractors” in Barton on Irwell on the 1881 census. Samuel married in Cheshire in 1888, but by 1891 the whole family had returned to Wolverhampton, where father and son worked in the iron industry.
Ezra died in Wolverhampton in late December 1900 and was buried in Merridale Cemetery on New Year’s Day 1901.
Susannah Gregory
Susannah Gregory, daughter of William Gregory and Esther Hallett, was born in Brierley Hill on 11 October 1844 and married Edward Lester in St Matthew’s Church, Wolverhampton on 7 February 1864. Edward was born in Bilston in 1841, and worked as an iron puddler. They lived in Bilston, and had three children, but only their oldest daughter survived past early childhood:
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2.
3.
(1864-?)
(1866-1869)
(1867-1868)
Susannah died in Wolverhampton in 1869 aged just 25 and Edward took Alice home to live with his parents for a while before she went into domestic service as nurse in a banker's family. Edward does not seem to have remarried, and continued to work as an iron puddler.
m. Alfred Irewood Spotsdale, 1887
James Gregory
James Gregory, son of William Gregory and Esther Hallett, was born in Tipton on 31 August 1848 and moved to Wolverhampton with his family as a young child. By the age of 12 he was working as a stone miner, and he continued in this occupation for at least the next fifteen years. He married Emma Webster in Wolverhampton in 1870, and had two daughters:
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2.
(1871-1921)
(1874-1952)
m. Edwin George Drew, 1896
m. William Henry Bamford, 1896
James’ older brother John had married Emma’s sister Selina ten years earlier, which is doubtless how the couple met, and in the late 1870s James and Selina joined their siblings in Walsall, where James started working (like his brother) as a gas tube screwer.
In 1901 James and Emma’s married daughter and family were living with them and their oldest grandson was still with them in 1911.
James died in Walsall in 1917 and Emma in 1936.
Enoch Gregory
Enoch Gregory, youngest surviving child of William Gregory and Esther Hallett, was born in Wolverhampton in 1854. He worked as a gas tube fitter for about twenty years and married Emma Witts in Wolverhampton in 1887. They had thirteen children, eight of whom died in infancy:
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Annie Gregory
Florence Gregory
Enoch Henry Gregory
Winnie Dora Gregory
Winnie Gregory
John Everton Hargreaves Gregory
John William Gregory
Emma Eliza Gregory
Albert Gregory
Edward Gregory
Gladys Gregory
Cyril Gregory
(1887-1887)
(1888-1976)
(1890-1959)
(1892-1951)
(1893-1893)
(1894-1946)
(1896-1896)
(1897-1975)
(1900-1900)
(1902-1902)
(1902-1902)
(1904-1904)
(1904-1904)
m. Bertie Alfred Akers, 1915
m. John Robert King, 1910
m. Eva Mary Simmons, 1920
m. Richmond Smalley, 1924
m. Eva Green, 1923
In late 1890 or early 1891 the family moved to Coventry, where Enoch worked as an electroplater in a cycle factory for the rest of his working life. He died in Birmingham in 1908 and Emma died in Coventry in 1929.
m. Eliza Swift, 1888
m. Samuel Holland 1889
Thomas Gregory
Thomas Gregory was born in Wellington in 1839, two years before his mother Jane married William Morgan, and in adult life he used both the surnames Morgan and Gregory at different times. He worked as a coal miner from a very early age and married Elizabeth Skitt at St Stephen's Church, Willenhall on 3 February 1862. Elizabeth was born in Bilston, Staffordshire in about 1840.
The couple had three children:
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2.
3.
(1863-?)
(1865-1917)
(1870-?)
Thomas and Elizabeth migrated to Yorkshire in the late 1860s along with the rest of Thomas' family. They lived with their married daughter Elizabeth from at least 1891 onwards, spending a few years in Durham before returning to the Doncaster area.
Thomas died in Goldthorpe in 1906 and Elizabeth in 1909.
Henry Morgan
Henry Morgan, oldest son of William Morgan and Jane Gregory, was born in Wellington and baptised in All Saints' Church there on 24 July 1842. Like many of his family, he spent all his working life as a coal miner.
He married Mary Ann Hibbert at St John's Church, Tipton on 12 December 1864 and had one child:
1.
(1867-?)
Mary Ann died a very short time after giving birth and Henry took the baby to Yorkshire where he was brought up by his paternal grandparents.
Henry died in Wakefield in 1917.
Elizabeth Morgan
Elizabeth Morgan, daughter of William Morgan and Jane Gregory, was born in Bilston and baptised at St Leonard's Church there on 23 August 1859. She moved to Yorkshire with her family as a child and married Joseph Price, a coal miner, in 1878 in Barnsley.
The couple had nine children, four of whom died in infancy:
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2.
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4.
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6.
7.
8.
9.
Joseph Price
John Alfred Price
Harriet Price
Arthur Price
William Price
Edith Price
Florrie Price
(1878-1880)
(1880-1900)
(1882-1940)
(1884-1889)
(1886-1961)
(1889-?)
(1894-1896)
(1896-1980)
(1902-1903)
m. Alexander Johnstone Smail, 1918
Elizabeth died in Barnsley in 1931 and Joseph in 1937.
1.
Eliza Morgan
Eliza Morgan, daughter of William Morgan and Jane Gregory, was born in Bilston on 27 January 1865 but moved to Yorkshire with her family as a small child. She had a son in 1886 whose father is unknown:
1.
(1886-1943)
Eliza then married Arthur Henry Hardy, a coal miner, in All Saints' Church, Darton on 20 June 1887 and had seven more children with her husband:
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(1887-1923)
(1889-1958)
(1891-1962)
(1895-1896)
(1897-1978)
(1901-1965)
(1904-1980)
m. Thomas Prince, 1911
m. Gerald Lunn, 1913
m. Samuel Cooper, 1919
m. Doris Whittlestone, 1922
m. Margaret Corbett, 1926
Arthur died in Barnsley in 1933 and Eliza in 1947.
Eighth generation
John Bladen
John Bladen, oldest surviving child of Charles Bladen and Sarah Gregory, was born in Wellington and was baptised in All Saints’ Church on 30 June 1861. He worked as a labourer, and married Selina Jane Evans in Christ Church, Wellington on 12 September 1886.
The couple had one son:
1.
(1887-1949)
Selina died when their baby was just a few months old and John then married Alice Emma Mason in Wellington in 1890. Alice was born in Camberwell in 1866 and was orphaned at an early age, but we do not know when or why she moved to Shropshire. She and John lived in Wellington and had four children:
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3.
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(1891-1976)
(1893-1977)
(1895-1971)
(1901-1974)
m. Caroline Ellis, 1915
m. Elizabeth Jane Broom, 1954
m. George Edward Harold Lowe, 1918
m. Florence Grace Hartshorn, 1928
John Henry joined the Scots Guards in 1904, and after serving the normal period of eight years was transferred to the Army Reserve in 1912, only to be remobilised in September 1914 after the outbreak of World War One. He was wounded in action in 1916, but recovered, and was finally discharged from the Army in 1919.
John died in Wellington on 24 June 1940 and Alice in 1955.
m. Letitia
Elizabeth Bladen
Elizabeth Bladen, daughter of Charles Bladen and Sarah Gregory, was born in Wellington and was baptised in All Saints’ Church on 3 August 1864 and married James William Thomas there in 1888. James was born in Wellington in 1860 and worked in a local timber yard. They had twelve children, two of whom died in infancy:
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Bertie Thomas
James Charles Thomas
Edith May Thomas
Alexander Thomas
Arthur Harold Thomas
Frederick Thomas
Ethel Thomas
Louisa Elizabeth Thomas
Annie Thomas
Gladys Thomas
Doris Thomas
(1889-1951)
(1890-1972)
(1892-1990)
(1894-1988)
(1896-1918)
(1897-1979)
(1899-?)
(1901-?)
(1903-1904)
(1904-1904)
(1907-?)
(1908-1993)
m. Edith Helen Jones, 1916
m. Susan Lily Kinsey, 1914
m. William George Lloyd, 1919
m. Annie Dora Hood, 1924
m. James Thomas Currier, 1926
m. Enoch Arthur Callear, 1930
Alexander served in the Worcestershire Regiment and later the Tank Corps during World War One. He died of wounds at Boulogne military hospital on 11 April 1918.
Elizabeth died in Wellington in 1939 and James in 1942.
Mary Ann Bladen
Mary Ann Bladen, daughter of Charles Bladen and Sarah Gregory, was baptised in Wellington on 26 August 1868 and worked as a domestic servant before her marriage to Benjamin Fredrick Smith in 1887. Benjamin was born in Wellington in 1867 and worked as a timber yard labourer before becoming a postman in the 1890s. Mary Ann and Benjamin had five children:
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2.
3.
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5.
(1888-?)
(1891-?)
(1893-?)
(1895-?)
(1904-1912)
Benjamin died in Wellington in 1938 and Mary Ann in 1949.
Eliza Gregory
Eliza Gregory, oldest surviving child of John Gregory and Selina Webster, was born in Walsall on 26 June 1864 and worked as a bridle stitcher as a young woman. Her mother died when she was 19 and shortly afterwards she married Henry James Drew in Rushall on 22 October 1883. Henry was a harness furniture plater, born in Bristol on 2 October 1863, whose family had moved to Walsall when he was a small child. His younger brother Edwin George married Eliza’s cousin Sabina Gregory in 1896.
The couple had nine children, but only the first four survived past infancy:
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2.
3.
4.
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6.
7.
8.
9.
Florence Ada Drew
Clara Elizabeth Drew
Frank Drew
Henry John Drew
Sabina Drew
Hilda May Drew
Sydney Charles Drew
Horace Edward Drew
Ernest George Drew
(1884-1963)
(1885-1970)
(1888-1942)
(1892-1963)
(1895-1895)
(1896-1896)
(1898-1898)
(1900-1900)
(1901-1901)
m. Edgar Dyoss, 1907
m. Edward Barlow, 1906
m. Jane Elizabeth Thacker, 1914
m. Rachel Swain, 1916
Henry died in Walsall in 1946 and Eliza in 1950.
Florence Gregory
Florence Gregory, daughter of John Gregory and Selina Webster, was born in Walsall on 14 December 1878 and and was brought up by her older sister Eliza after their mother died in 1883. She worked as a brush filler before her marriage to William Benton in Walsall in 1903. William was born in Walsall on 16 April 1876, and worked as a coal porter on the London & North-Western Railway.
The couple had two sons:
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2.
(1905-?)
(1908-1965)
m. Gladys Irene Barratt, 1932
William died in Walsall on 28 January 1958.
Esther Ann Gregory
Esther Ann was born in Wolverhampton on 11 November 1865, nearly two years before her mother Mary Ann Goodwin married Samuel Gregory and her birth was registered in her mother’s maiden name of Goodwin. However, after Mary Ann’s marriage Esther took the surname of Gregory and is listed as Samuel’s daughter on census and other records.
In 1881, Esther (or Hester) was working as a servant in the household of John Griffin, husband of Samuel Gregory’s cousin Eliza Hodgkiss. The following year she married Thomas Morris in Wolverhampton, aged barely 17. Thomas was born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire on 16 March 1860, the son of Charles Morris and his wife Sarah Bottomley, and is recorded on census as a steel toy maker, meaning he made small, usually decorative, metal items - not children's playthings. This was a thriving trade in Wolverhampton in the 19th century.
Thomas and Esther lived in Wolverhampton and had eight children:
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6.
7.
8.
Thomas Samuel Morris
Phillis Amy Morris
William Oliver Morris
Ambrose Morris
Edgar Morris
Harold Morris
Rosa Mary Morris
Esther Morris
(1884-1960)
(1886-1978)
(1888-1919)
(1891-1894)
(1893-1941)
(1895-1955)
(1897-1967)
(1904-?)
m. Letitia Fox, 1919
m. Samuel Wilkes, 1911
m. Elizabeth Davies, 1914
m. Alice May Terry, 1923
m. John Riley, 1964
Edgar Morris served as a private in the Yorkshire Regiment during the First World War. He was called up for service on 20 September 1917 and went out to India in April 1918.
Esther died in Wolverhampton in 1943 and Thomas in 1946.
(1894-1914)
(1897-1978)
(1900-1995)
m. Violet Kathleen Jane, 1923
m. James Albert Graham, 1925
Eliza Edith Gregory
Eliza Edith Gregory, daughter of Samuel Gregory and Mary Ann Goodwin, was born in Wolverhampton in 1868 and married Fred Hedgecox, an iron driller, at All Saints' Church there on 26 August 1894. Fred was born in Heath, Staffordshire on 24 September 1875 and was the son of Richard Hedgecox and Mary Briggs. He and Eliza had three children in Wolverhampton before moving to Manchester in the early 1900s.
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2.
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Eliza died in Manchester in 1906 at the age of 40 and Fred married Elizabeth Langshaw at St Philip’s Church, Hulme on 3 August 1907. Elizabeth was a widow with two daughters, who had previously been married to Francis James Lee. She had a further daughter with Fred in 1910.
Fred died in Leicestershire in 1950.
Rosa Amy Gregory
Rosa Amy Gregory, youngest daughter of Samuel Gregory and Mary Ann Goodwin, was born in Wolverhampton on 3 June 1883 and married George Brookes, a varnish maker, in All Saints' Church there in 1906. George was the son of John Brookes and Jane Piper, born in Himley, Staffordshire in 1883.
The couple had four children, all born in Wolverhampton:
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2.
3.
4.
(1907-1976)
(1911-1989)
(1917-1922)
(1920-1983)
m. Ivy Tomlinson, 1932
m. Jack Corbett, 1935
m. Florence M Hayman, 1948
George died in Wolverhampton in 1956 and Rosa in 1969.
Samuel Ezra Hodgkiss
Samuel Ezra Hodgkiss, oldest son of Samuel Hodgkiss and Mary Ann Gregory, was born in Wolverhampton on 7 March 1867 and lost his mother at the age of seven. He moved to Lancashire with his father and sister and later worked there as a labourer. He married Sarah Ellen Cook in Christ Church, Wharton on Christmas Eve 1888 and the couple returned almost immediately to Wolverhampton where Samuel worked in the local iron industry as a steel sheet roller.
They had eleven children:
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(1890-1972)
(1891-1956)
(1893-1920)
(1894-1964)
(1897-1982)
(1898-1965)
(1900-1900)
(1901-1968)
(1904-1976)
(1906-1985)
(1910-1994)
m. Thomas Henry Greenway, 1910
m. Sarah Whittingham, 1912
m. David Thomas Davies, 1917
m. Rose Hatherley, 1924
m. Frances Ann Haslett, 1923
m. Joseph Charles Jones Meek, 1925
m. Gladys May Eccles, 1927
m. Olive Beatrice Rowley, 1938
m. Edward Mulloy, 1939
Samuel died in Bilston in 1940 and Sarah in 1962.
Clara Ann Hodgkiss
Clara Ann Hodgkiss,only surviving daughter of Ezra Hodgkiss and Mary Ann Gregory, was born in Wolverhampton on 14 September 1872 and was given the same name as an older sister who died a few months earlier. She was only two years old when her mother died and was brought up by her father, who never remarried. Clara became a nurse, working in Wolverhampton Borough Hospital before moving to Surrey where she married William James Boylett at St Mary's Church, Worplesdon on 6 July 1897. William was born in Worplesdon on 6 July 1866 and worked as a railway labourer.
Clara and William had two known children:
1.
2.
Beatrice Olivia Boylett
(1899-?)
(1901-?)
In the early 1900s the family emigrated to South Africa where William continued to work on the railways, becoming an engine driver. Clara died in Port Elizabeth on 24 October 1937 and William on 19 January 1950.
(1898-1983)
(1903-1988)
m. Florence May Lee, 1922
m. Ethel Beresford, 1929
Sabina Gregory
Sabina Gregory, older daughter of James Gregory and Emma Webster, was born in Wolverhampton and was baptised there on 10 November 1871. She moved to Walsall with her family as a child and worked in a machine shop before her marriage to Edwin George Drew in 1896. Edwin, a tailor, was born in Walsall in 1873 and his older brother Henry James Drew married Sabina’s cousin Eliza Gregory.
The couple had two sons:
1.
2.
Sabina was attending a pierrot concert at Walsall Temperance Hall on 22 October 1921 when part of the roof collapsed on the audience. She was taken to hospital, but died of spinal injuries the following day. Her son William and his fiancée Florence Lee were also at the concert but escaped virtually unscathed, with William receiving just cuts to his head.
Edwin remarried in Walsall in 1927: his second wife was Annie Elzabeth Hiles, who was born in Manchester on 22 July 1887. Edwin died in Walsall in 1956.
Emma Gregory
Emma Gregory, younger daughter of James Gregory and Emma Webster, was born in Wolverhampton on 17 March 1874 and after moving to Walsall with her family as a young child, worked as a bridle stitcher before her marriage. She married William Henry Bamford in Walsall in 1896. William was born in Walsall in 1872 and was the son of Edwin Bamford and his wife, Mary Robinson. William and his father Edwin both worked on the railways as guards.
William and Emma had five children, all born in Walsall:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
(1898-1970)
(1901-1971)
(1904-1983)
(1913-1993)
(1915-1915)
m. Edith Mary Ann Riley, 1929
m. Henry Holmes, 1950
m. Beatrice E Jones, 1945
The couple lived with Emma’s parents for a few years after their marriage. Even after they moved to their own home, their oldest son Sydney appears to have remained with his grandparents.
William died in Walsall in 1929 and Emma later moved to Lancashire, possibly to be near her daughters Ethel and Annie. She died in Chorley in 1952.
Annie Gregory
Annie Gregory, oldest daughter of Enoch Gregory and Emma Witts, was born in Wolverhampton on 5 November 1888, and moved to Coventry with her family as a small child. She worked as a winder in a carpet weaving factory before her marriage to Bertie Alfred Akers in 1915. Bertie was born in Coventry on 13 February 1889 and worked in the steel industry. They had three sons:
1.
2.
3.
(1916-1991)
(1916-1927)
(1926-1994)
m. Winifred Morgan, 1938
m. Eileen Joy Akers, 1953
Bertie died in Coventry in 1970 and Annie in 1976.
Florence Gregory
Florence Gregory ("Florrie"), daughter of Enoch Gregory and Emma Witts, was born in Ettingshall, Staffordshire on 30 August 1890, shortly before the family moved to Coventry. She married John Robert King, a motor fitter from Norfolk, in Coventry in 1910.
They had two children:
1.
2.
(1910-1975)
(1912-?)
m. Ida Clara Walker, 1933
m. James F Gardner, 1940
John died in Coventry in 1929 and Florence in 1959.
Enoch Henry Gregory
Enoch Henry Gregory, oldest surviving son of Enoch Gregory and Emma Witts, was born in Coventry on 16 December 1891 and became a baker. He married Eva Mary Simmons in Coventry in 1910: she was born in Dundalk, Ireland on 12 December 1882, but her parents were English and only spent a short time in Ireland. Eva was a widow with four daughters who had previously been married to William Frederick Aldington.
Eva and Enoch had two daughters:
1.
2.
(1920-1996)
m. Ronald Sidney Miles, 1943
Enoch died in Coventry in 1951, and Eva in 1968.
Winnie Gregory
Winnie Gregory, daughter of Enoch Gregory and Emma Witts, was born in Coventry on 12 May 1894 and worked as a winder in an artificial silk factory as a young woman. In 1924, she married Richmond Smalley, a weaver born in Leyland, Lancashire on 9 March 1894, and had two daughters:
1.
2.
(1929-1972)
(1931-2005)
m. William E Jeffs, 1965
Richmond died in Coventry in 1941, and Winnie died in Warwick in 1946.
John William Gregory
John William Gregory, youngest surviving child of Enoch Gregory and Emma Witts, was born in Coventry on 11 September 1897 and worked as a drop forger. He married Eva Green in Coventry in 1923 and had six children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Raymond Gregory
Alan Douglas Gregory
Edna Rose Gregory
Ronald G Gregory
Pauline Joan Gregory
(1924-1925)
(1925-1926)
(1927-2003)
(1931-1969)
(1933-1953)
(1936-2002)
John died in Coventry in 1959.
m. Grace L Nottingham, 1959
m. Robert H Humphreys, 1949
m. Anthony R Green, 1958
William Gregory
William Gregory, son of Thomas Gregory and Elizabeth Skitt, was born in Sedgley, Staffordshire in 1865 but moved to Yorkshire with his family as a young child. Like most men in this branch of the family, he spent all his working life as a coal miner.
He married Eliza Swift in Wakefield on 2 April 1888 and had four children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
(1888-1964)
(1896-1896)
(1902-1902)
(1905-1973)
m. Arthur Griffiths, 1913
m. Alice Maud Jackson, 1930
William died in Wakefield in 1917 and Eliza later married Robert Hall in Sandal in 1923. She died in Wakefield in 1945.
Elizabeth Gregory
Elizabeth Gregory, daughter of Thomas Gregory and Elizabeth Skitt, was born in Barnsley on 12 October 1870 and married Samuel Holland, a coal miner, in Durham in 1889. Samuel was born in Tibshelf, Derbyshire on 5 June 1867 and was the son of John Holland and Martha Fowler.
The couple had eight children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Martha Holland
Lily Holland
Harry Holland
Herbert Holland
Jane Holland
Alfred Holland
Leah Holland
(1889-1963)
(1891-1957)
(1893-1970)
(1895-?)
(1899-1918)
(1901-1969)
(1906-?)
(1909-1935)
m. Edith Shepherd, 1910
m. Clarence Helliwell, 1914
m. John Andrew Robertshaw, 1921
m. Ellen Joan Murray, 1921
m. James Marples, 1925
m. Lily Brady, 1925
The first two children were born in Durham before the family moved back to Yorkshire in about 1892. The couple lived with Elizabeth's parents from their marriage until at least 1911.
Herbert Holland was killed in action at Ypres on 26 April 1918 while serving with the 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. His brother Harry also served in the army during the First World War, joining the Royal Garrison Artillery on 19 November 1914 and going to France eight months later.
Samuel died in Yorkshire in 1952.
Laura Price
Laura Price, daughter of Joseph Price and Elizabeth Morgan, was born in Darton, Yorkshire, and married Alexander Johstone Smail, a miner, at All Saints' Church, Darton on 25 July 1918. Alexander was born in Wigan on 21 June 1896 and was the son of Archibald Smail, a baker, and Isabella Pattison.
The couple had four children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
(1919-1990)
(1922-1996)
Alexander died in Staincross in 1973 and Laura died in Barnsley in 1980.
Annie Agnes Hardy
Agnes Annie Hardy, daughter of Arthur Henry Hardy and Eliza Morgan, was born in Staincross Common, Yorkshire on 9 January 1891 and married Gerald Lunn, a miner, at Barnsley Register Office on 22 March 1913. Gerald was born in Barnsley on 13 January 1889 and was the son of Samuel Lunn and Jane Sheriff.
Agnes and Gerald already had a son born in 1910 and they had seven more children after their marriage:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Violet Lunn
Albert Lunn
Ivy Lunn
William Lunn
Harry Lunn
(possibly living)
Jenny Lunn
(1910-1986)
(1913-1994)
(1917-1987)
(1921-?)
(1923-1984)
(1926-2002)
(1933-2009)
Gerald enlisted in the Yorkshire and Lancashire Regiment soon after the outbreak of World War One and served in Egypt and France. He was invalided to England suffering from shell shock in July 1916 and spent a month in hospital before rejoining his unit. At the end of 1916 he went missing from the Army and was subsequently tried for desertion and “losing his clothing by neglect”: he was found guilty of the second charge, while the charge of desertion was reduced to "guilty of absence without leave". Although not explicitly stated, it seems likely that the tribunal attributed the incident to the aftermath of his shell shock. Gerald returned to the army and completed his service without further incident: he was transferred to the Tank Corps in 1918 before being demobilised.
Agnes died in Barnsley in 1962.
m. Frank Micklethwaite, 1936
m. William Bennett, 1939
m. Ruby Guest, 1943
m. Norman Roderick Blackley, 1956
Ivy Hardy
Ivy Hardy, daughter of Arthur Henry Hardy and Eliza Morgan, was born in Barnsley on 14 August 1897 and married Samuel Cooper, a coal miner, in St John the Baptist’s Church there on 20 September 1919. They had four children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
(1921-?)
(1923-?)
(1925-1988)
(1930-1932)
Ivy died in Barnsley in 1978.
Clarence Hardy
Clarence Hardy, son of Arthur Henry Hardy and Eliza Morgan, was born in Barnsley on 28 November 1901 and married Doris Whittlestone in St Mary’s Church there on Christmas Day 1922. The couple had six children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
(1924-1956)
(1926-1989)
(1930-1931)
(1931-1933)
(1935-1936)
Clarence died in Barnsley in 1965.
Edward Hardy
Edward Hardy, son of Arthur Henry Hardy and Eliza Morgan, was born in Barnsley on 15 October 1904 and married Margaret Corbett there in 1926. The couple had four children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
(1927-1971)
(1932-1932)
Edward died in Bradford in 1980.
Ninth generation
Florence Ada Drew
Florence Ada Drew, oldest daughter of Henry James Drew and Eliza Gregory, was born in Walsall on 25 January 1884, and worked as a warehouse assistant before her marriage to Edgar Dyoss in Walsall in 1907. Edgar, a cart gear maker, was born in Walsall in 1881. The couple had six sons, all born in Walsall:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
(1908-1993)
(1910-1912)
(1912-2003)
(1915-?)
(1918-2004)
(1922-2001)
m. Hilda Lucy Grace Tipper, 1935
m. Matilda May Perham, 1940
m. Barbara Ellen Cobb, 1943
Although most of the family remained in Walsall, both Harold and Ronald moved to Dorset, where they lived in Poole.
Edgar died in Walsall in 1925 and Florence in 1963.
Clara Elizabeth Drew
Clara Elizabeth Drew, daughter of Henry James Drew and Eliza Gregory, was born in Walsall on 19 September 1885 and by the age of 15 was working as a tailoress. She married Edward Barlow, a harness maker from Birmingham, in Walsall in 1906 and had two sons:
1.
2.
(1906-1981)
(1908-1912)
Edward died in Walsall in 1957 and Clara in 1970.
Frank Drew
Frank Drew, son of Henry James Drew and Eliza Gregory, was born in Walsall on 19 August 1888 and became a railway clerk. He married Jane Elizabeth Thacker, a single mother with two daughters, in Walsall on 22 August 1914 and the following year joined the Grenadier Guards. He was mobilised in 1917, but did not go overseas until April 1918, spending most of the war years either in the Army Reserve or on home service. He was discharged in 1920, and his only daughter was born two years later:
1.
(1922-2003)
m. Eric A Blakemore, 1944
Frank died in Walsall on 15 August 1942.
Thomas Samuel Morris
Thomas Samuel Morris, oldest son of Thomas Morris and Esther Ann Goodwin, was born in Wolverhampton on 13 February 1884 and worked for a brewer. He married Letitia Fox in Wolverhampton in 1919 and had five children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
(1920-?)
(1922-2003)
(1924-1992)
Letitia died in Wolverhampton on 9 June 1952 and Thomas on 8 June 1960.
William Oliver Morris
William Oliver Morris, son of Thomas Morris and Esther Ann Goodwin, was born in Wolverhampton in 1888 and became a motor fitter; He married Elizabeth Davies in 1914 and had two sons who died young:
1.
2.
Oliver Leslie Gregory Morris
(1914-1918)
(1916-1916)
William died in Wolverhampton in 1919 aged 31.