Richard GreggAge: 601780–1840
- Name
- Richard Gregg
- Given names
- Richard
- Surname
- Gregg
| Birth | May 1780 40 Donegal, Ireland |
| Marriage | Fanny McClure - View family |
| Birth of a brother | about 1783 (Age 2) Donegal, Ireland
younger brother -
Daniel Gregg
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| Occupation | Farmer Note: Richard inherited his father's farm in Munielagan. |
| Australian History | 1788 (Age 7) 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. |
| Birth of a brother | about 1789 (Age 8) Donegal, Ireland
younger brother -
John Gregg
|
| Australian History | 1790 (Age 9) Note: Beleaguered Second Fleet arrives. Colony gripped by food crisis. |
| Birth of a sister | about 1791 (Age 10) Donegal, Ireland
younger sister -
Mattie Gregg
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| Australian History | 1792 (Age 11) 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. |
| Birth of a sister | about 1793 (Age 12) Donegal, Ireland
younger sister -
Elizabeth "Betty" Gregg
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| Birth of a sister | about 1795 (Age 14) Donegal, Ireland
younger sister -
Jean Gregg
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| Birth of a sister | about 1797 (Age 16) Donegal, Ireland
younger sister -
Eleanor "Nell" Gregg
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| Australian History | 1797 (Age 16) 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 (Age 17) Note: 1798-9 - George Bass and Matthew Flinders sail from Sydney and circumnavigate Tasmania, thus proving it to be an island. |
| Residence | 1800 (estimated) (Age 19) Munielagan, Donegal, Ireland Richard Gregg family profile information Note: From notes and records of Thomas Gregg, Bluffton, Indiana |
| Australian History | 1803 (Age 22) Note: Matthew Flinders completes the first circumnavigation of the continent (still known as 'New Holland') |
| Australian History | 1804 (Age 23) 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. |
| Marriage of a brother | Daniel Gregg - View family 30 May 1805 (Age 25) Ramelton, Donegal, Ireland
younger brother -
Daniel Gregg
sister-in-law -
Jane Graham
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| Australian History | 1808 (Age 27) Note: The Rum Rebellion |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | 11 January 1812 (Age 31) Moneylagan, Donegal, Ireland
daughter -
Sarah Gregg
|
| Australian History | 1817 (Age 36) 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 (Age 37) Note: Oxley charts the Macquarie River. |
| Australian History | 1824 (Age 43) 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 (Age 44) Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed. |
| Death of a father | 21 July 1828 (Age 48) Moneylaggan, Donegal, Ireland
father -
Richard Gregg
|
| Australian History | 1828 (Age 47) Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River. |
| Birth of a son #2 | 9 May 1829 (Age 49) Moneylagan, Donegal, Ireland
son -
John Gregg
|
| Australian History | 1829 (Age 48) 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 (Age 49) Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River. |
| Birth of a son #3 | 3 January 1831 (Age 50) Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland
son -
Daniel Gregg
|
| Australian History | 1831 (Age 50) Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published. |
| Australian History | 1832 (Age 51) Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1833 (Age 52) Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land. |
| Australian History | 1835 (Age 54) 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 (Age 55) Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E. |
| Australian History | 1838 (Age 57) Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time. |
| Marriage of a daughter | Sarah Gregg - View family 16 February 1839 (Age 58) Moneylagan, Donegal, Ireland
son-in-law -
Francis Torrens
daughter -
Sarah Gregg
|
| Australian History | 1839 (Age 58) Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko. |
| Australian History | 1840 (Age 59) Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council. |
| Death | 6 June 1840 (Age 60) Age: 54 Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland Address: Kilmacrennan Cemetery |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Richard Gregg
Birth 1740 28 Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland (Area) Death 21 July 1828 (Age 88) Moneylaggan, Donegal, Ireland |
| mother |
Mattie Clark
Birth Manorcunningham, Ireland Death yes |
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Marriage: — Ireland |
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| #1 elder brother |
Robert Gregg
Birth 1768 28 Donegal, Ireland Death 25 December 1841 (Age 73) |
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15 years #2 younger brother |
Daniel Gregg
Birth about 1783 43 Donegal, Ireland Death 10 July 1851 (Age 68) Ramelton, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland |
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-3 years #3 himself |
Richard Gregg
Birth May 1780 40 Donegal, Ireland Death 6 June 1840 (Age 60) Age: 54 Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland |
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9 years #4 younger brother |
John Gregg
Birth about 1789 49 Donegal, Ireland Death February 1845 (Age 56) |
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4 years #5 younger sister |
Elizabeth "Betty" Gregg
Birth about 1793 53 Donegal, Ireland Death yes |
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2 years #6 younger sister |
Jean Gregg
Birth about 1795 55 Donegal, Ireland Death yes |
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2 years #7 younger sister |
Eleanor "Nell" Gregg
Birth about 1797 57 Donegal, Ireland Death yes |
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-6 years #8 younger sister |
Mattie Gregg
Birth about 1791 51 Donegal, Ireland Death yes |
| Family with Fanny McClure - View family |
| himself |
Richard Gregg
Birth May 1780 40 Donegal, Ireland Death 6 June 1840 (Age 60) Age: 54 Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland |
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14 years wife |
Fanny McClure
Birth March 1794 County Donegal, Ireland Death September 1881 (Age 87) County Donegal, Ireland |
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Marriage: yes |
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| #1 daughter |
Sarah Gregg
Birth 11 January 1812 31 17 Moneylagan, Donegal, Ireland Death 1 October 1894 (Age 82) Age: 82 Wells, Indiana, USA |
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17 years #2 son |
John Gregg
Birth 9 May 1829 49 35 Moneylagan, Donegal, Ireland Death 9 February 1908 (Age 78) Liberty Township, Wells, Indiana, USA |
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20 months #3 son |
Daniel Gregg
Birth 3 January 1831 50 36 Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland Death 5 May 1901 (Age 70) Danville, Illinois, USA |
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| Occupation | Richard inherited his father's farm in Munielagan. |
| 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. |
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.