Robert Gregg?–?
- Name
- Robert Gregg
- Given names
- Robert
- Surname
- Gregg
| Birth | Donegal, Ireland |
| Occupation | Farmer Note: Bought a farm at Munielagan adjoining Loganstoon and Edenacarnon, Ireland. |
| Australian History | 1770 Note: English Lieutenant James Cook's expedition in HM Bark Endeavour charts the eastern coast, and claims it for the British Crown. Australia dubbed 'terra nullius' i.e., according to the European legal precepts of the era, it was 'owned' by no-one. |
| Australian History | 1788 Note: The British First Fleet, led by Governor Arthur Phillip arrives in New South Wales to found first European settlement and penal colony at Sydney. Colony includes 'all the islands adjacent in the Pacific Ocean' and running westward to the 135th meridian east. This claim included the islands of New Zealand, which were administered as part of New South Wales. Note: British settlement founded at Norfolk Island. |
| Australian History | 1790 Note: Beleaguered Second Fleet arrives. Colony gripped by food crisis. |
| Australian History | 1792 Note: Two French ships, La Recherche and L'Esp�rance, anchor at Recherche Bay, near the southernmost point of Tasmania at a time when England and France were racing around the globe to be the first to discover and colonise Australia. Note: Governor Philip returns to England, accompanied by his friend Bennelong and a companion who become the first Australian born person to sail to Europe. |
| Australian History | 1797 Note: Sydney Cove wrecked and some survivors travelled from Bass Strait to Port Jackson allowing for the rescue of others but also furthering knowledge of the geography of Australia. |
| Australian History | 1798 Note: 1798-9 - George Bass and Matthew Flinders sail from Sydney and circumnavigate Tasmania, thus proving it to be an island. |
| Australian History | 1803 Note: Matthew Flinders completes the first circumnavigation of the continent (still known as 'New Holland') |
| Australian History | 1804 Note: A settlement is founded at Risdon on the Derwent River in Van Diemen's Land by Lieutenant Bowen. Note: Castle Hill convict rebellion also known as the second Battle of Vinegar Hill Note: The Risdon settlement is moved to Sullivan's Cove (now Hobart) by Colonel David Collins. |
| Australian History | 1808 Note: The Rum Rebellion |
| Australian History | 1817 Note: John Oxley charts the Lachlan River Note: Australia's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales, opens in Macquarie Place, Sydney (it became Westpac in 1982). Note: Governor Lachlan Macquarie petitioned the British Admiralty to use the name 'Australia' instead of 'New Holland' |
| Australian History | 1818 Note: Oxley charts the Macquarie River. |
| Australian History | 1824 Note: A penal colony is founded at Moreton Bay, now the city of Brisbane. Note: Bathurst and Melville Islands are annexed. Note: Permission granted to change the name of the continent from 'New Holland' to 'Australia' Note: 1824-25 - Hume and Hovell expedition travels overland to Port Phillip Bay, discovers Murray River |
| Australian History | 1825 Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed. |
| Death of a brother | 21 July 1828 Moneylaggan, Donegal, Ireland
brother -
Richard Gregg
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| Australian History | 1828 Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River. |
| Australian History | 1829 Note: The whole of Australia is claimed as British territory. The settlement of Perth is founded. Swan River Colony is declared by Charles Fremantle for Britain. |
| Australian History | 1830 Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River. |
| Australian History | 1831 Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published. |
| Australian History | 1832 Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1833 Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land. |
| Australian History | 1835 Note: John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner establish a settlement at Port Phillip, now the city of Melbourne. Note: William Wentworth establishes Australian Patriotic Association (Australia's first political party) to demand democracy for New South Wales. |
| Australian History | 1836 Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E. |
| Australian History | 1838 Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time. |
| Australian History | 1839 Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko. |
| Australian History | 1840 Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council. |
| Australian History | 1841 Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales. |
| Australian History | 1842 Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia. |
| Australian History | 1843 Note: Australia's first parliamentary elections held for the New South Wales Legislative Council (though voting rights are restricted to males of certain wealth or property). |
| Australian History | 1845 Note: The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off King Island in Bass Strait. It is Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, with 406 lives lost. Note: Copper is discovered at Burra in South Australia. |
| Australian History | 1850 Note: Western Australia becomes a penal colony. Note: Australian Colonies Government Act [1850] grants representative constitutions to New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, colonies set about writing constitutions which produced democratically progressive parliaments Note: Australia's first university, the University of Sydney, is founded. |
| Australian History | 1851 Note: Victoria separates from New South Wales. Note: The Victorian gold rush starts when gold is found at Summerhill Creek and Ballarat. Note: Forest Creek Monster Meeting of miners at Chewton near Castlemaine |
| Australian History | 1853 Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo |
| Death | yes |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Robert Gregg
Birth 1712 20 Antrim, Ireland Death Donegal, Ireland |
| mother |
Martha Logan
Birth Loganstoon, Ireland Death yes |
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Marriage: 1735 (estimated) |
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5 years #1 brother |
Richard Gregg
Birth 1740 28 Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland (Area) Death 21 July 1828 (Age 88) Moneylaggan, Donegal, Ireland |
| #2 brother |
David Gregg
Birth Donegal, Ireland Death yes |
| #3 himself |
Robert Gregg
Birth Donegal, Ireland Death yes |
| #4 brother |
James Gregg
Birth Ireland Death yes |
Robert Gregg has 0 first cousins recorded
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Mother's family (0)
| Occupation | Bought a farm at Munielagan adjoining Loganstoon and Edenacarnon, Ireland. |
| Australian History | English Lieutenant James Cook's expedition in HM Bark Endeavour charts the eastern coast, and claims it for the British Crown. Australia dubbed 'terra nullius' i.e., according to the European legal precepts of the era, it was 'owned' by no-one. |
| Australian History | The British First Fleet, led by Governor Arthur Phillip arrives in New South Wales to found first European settlement and penal colony at Sydney. Colony includes 'all the islands adjacent in the Pacific Ocean' and running westward to the 135th meridian east. This claim included the islands of New Zealand, which were administered as part of New South Wales. |
| Australian History | Beleaguered Second Fleet arrives. Colony gripped by food crisis. |
| Australian History | Two French ships, La Recherche and L'Esp�rance, anchor at Recherche Bay, near the southernmost point of Tasmania at a time when England and France were racing around the globe to be the first to discover and colonise Australia. |
| Australian History | Sydney Cove wrecked and some survivors travelled from Bass Strait to Port Jackson allowing for the rescue of others but also furthering knowledge of the geography of Australia. |
| Australian History | 1798-9 - George Bass and Matthew Flinders sail from Sydney and circumnavigate Tasmania, thus proving it to be an island. |
| Australian History | Matthew Flinders completes the first circumnavigation of the continent (still known as 'New Holland') |
| Australian History | A settlement is founded at Risdon on the Derwent River in Van Diemen's Land by Lieutenant Bowen. |
| Australian History | The Rum Rebellion |
| Australian History | John Oxley charts the Lachlan River |
| Australian History | Oxley charts the Macquarie River. |
| Australian History | A penal colony is founded at Moreton Bay, now the city of Brisbane. |
| Australian History | New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed. |
| Australian History | Charles Sturt charts the Darling River. |
| Australian History | The whole of Australia is claimed as British territory. The settlement of Perth is founded. Swan River Colony is declared by Charles Fremantle for Britain. |
| Australian History | Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River. |
| Australian History | Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published. |
| Australian History | Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia. |
| Australian History | The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land. |
| Australian History | John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner establish a settlement at Port Phillip, now the city of Melbourne. |
| Australian History | Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E. |
| Australian History | First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time. |
| Australian History | Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko. |
| Australian History | Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council. |
| Australian History | New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales. |
| Australian History | Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia. |
| Australian History | Australia's first parliamentary elections held for the New South Wales Legislative Council (though voting rights are restricted to males of certain wealth or property). |
| Australian History | The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off King Island in Bass Strait. It is Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, with 406 lives lost. |
| Australian History | Western Australia becomes a penal colony. |
| Australian History | Victoria separates from New South Wales. |
| Australian History | Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo |
Letter Outlining the family of Richard and Catherine Gregg
Extracts from the book "A Moment in Time" by Daniel Gregg with permission of same.
As this is the family history, applying to Richard and Catherine Gregg and their descendants, it was my intention to introduce and publish the first family only of the Starritt, Young and Rankin families, with the McKays to the third generation.
There had never been any evidence or suggestion that Richard and his sister Catherine had any brothers or sisters. About 1968 I had asked Geo Starritt (1881-1971) how many brothers and sisters his mother had; the reply was, that beyond Richard Gregg being a brother, he did not know. His explanation was that in those days one was not told and did not ask.
It was on Wednesday, 11 th. July this year, in our cousin "Maimie" MacLeod's home, while trying to locate a letter written in 1898, that we discovered a Gregg Family History dating back to 1712.
Handwritten on ordinary writing paper, the abovementioned history had no envelope and showed definite signs of age. The compiler was apparently "R. Gregg" and it is reproduced verbatim, with a (?) against that of which I am not reasonably sure.
May those who are family history conscious receive some assistance from this discovery, which is reproduced by courtesy of "Maimie".
The following is an account of the Gregg Family from their first settlement in Ganacaman (?) Co. Donegal, Ireland.
R. Gregg.
B. 1712. Robert, Son of Richard Gregg of Glenarm, County Antrim, removed to Donegal Co. and married Martha, daughter and heiress of David Logan of the Loganstoon about 1735 having issue Richard, David, Robert, James, James settled in Edenacarnon the next town land but afterwards emigrated to America.
David inherited his Grandfather Logan's farm and Richard and Robert bought farms in Munielagan adjoining the Loganstoon and Edenacarnon. Richard born 1740 married Mattie Clark of Manor cunningham and had issue Robert, John, Richard, Daniel, Mattie, Betty, Jean, Nell. Nell married James Buchanan, Locker. Betty married William Graham of Ballynascadden. Mattie married John Gailey, Killylartin (?). Dan married a daughter and heiress of Mosses (?) Graham of Killycreen. John settled at Carrowcastle near Dan. Robert bought land in Ballynascadden from the Grahams and Richard inherited his father's farm in Munielagan.
Robert, born 1768, married Mattie McClure and had issue Richard, Finlay, Robert, Mary, Jeanie and Eliza. By his second wife Peggy Starrett he had issue Daniel, William, Mattie, Margaret, Nancy. Richard married Mary Ward and went to America settling in Venango, Co. Pa. Mary married John Buchanan, Locker. Jeanie married Daniel Gailey, Fullygay (?). Eliza married John Gailey, Kellylartin (?). All Peggy Starrett's issue went to America and settled in Venango, Co. Pa. after the death of their father Robert - which took place on Christmas Day 1841.
Finlay married Sarah Gailey (daughter of John Gailey, Killylartin and Mattie Gregg) and bought a farm in Muneylagan adjoining his Grandfather's farm and had issue Mary, Mattie, Jean, Ellenor, Elizabeth, Margaret Ann, Catherine, Robert, John, Richard, Finlay. Mary married John Johnstone, Eanecarnan (?). Mattie married to Anderson Churchill. Jean married Hugh Scott. Ellenor died unmarried. Elizabeth married first Robinson second James Graham. Margaret Ann married Robert Kelso and went to America. Catherine went out to Australia and married Robert Starrett of the Loganstoon. Robert married Isabella Gibson daughter and heiress of Billy Gibson, Killydensart (?). John went to America and married the daughter of W. H. Noyes at one time Governor of the State of Ohio. Richard went out to Australia and married Kattie McKay daughter of Donald McKay of the Isle of Sky. Finlay died unmarried and his elder brother Robert inherited his Father's farm in Munielagan which is now in possession of his only son Robert who married the eldest of George Burrowes of Dromore and has a numerous family of sons and daughters.
Robert - born 1810 - married Ann McConnell eldest daughter of Thomas McConnell of Fanad (?) 1836 and had issue Mary, Mattie, Robert, Thomas, Eliza, Richard, Sarah. He inherited his father's farm in Ballynascadden generally called up tho brae. Mary married Robert Rutherford, Cashlenan (?) and had issue James, Robert, Hanah, Anna, Rebecca, Mattie, Catherinne, Samuel, Robert - the first Robert died when 7 years old. Mattie married Alexander Starrett of the Loganstoon and had issue Robert, John, David, Margaret, Anna, Mary and Mattie.