John Gregory
John Gregory, Lord of the manors of Freseley and Asfordby1292 , Freseley and Asfordby, Leicester, England
GREGORY or STYVECHALL. This family is traced to John Gregory, Lord of the manors of Freseley and Asfordby, in the county of Leicester, who married Maud, daughter of Sir Koger Moton, of Peckleton, Knight; his son, Kichard Gregory, of the same places, died in the year 1292. Arthur Gregory, Esquire, the .representative of this ancient family, was seated at Sty vechall, within the county of the city of Coventry, of which his father, Thomas, died seized in the sixteenth of Elizabeth. See Nichols's Leicestershire, vol.iii.pt. i. p. 19; and Dugdale's Warwicksh ire, vol. i. p. 202. ARMS. Or, two bars and in chief a lion passant azure.
Present Representative, Arthur Francis Gregory, Esq.
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Presented to the UNIVERSIT Y OF TORONTO LIBRARY by the ONTARIO LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY, 1980
" THE NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. n. THE NOBLE AND GENTLEbMEN OF ENGLAND; OR, NOTES TOUCHING THE ARMS AND DESCENTS OF THE ANCIENT KNIGHTLY AND GENTLE HOUSES OF ENGLAND, ARRANGED IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTIES. ATTEMPTED BY EVELYN PHILIP SHIRLEY, ESQ. M.A. ONE OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE SHIRE FOR THE COUNTY OF WARWICK.
WESTMIN STER : JOHN BOWYER NICHOLS AND SONS. 1859.
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Maude Moton history 1396 , Peckleton, Leicestershire, England
John Gregory (M) b. circa 1390, #104603
John Gregory was born circa 1390 at Of, Asfordby, Leicestershire, England. He married Maude Moton, daughter of Sir Knight Roger Moton.
Child of John Gregory and Maude Moton Nicholas Gregory b. c 1420
Maude Moton (F) b. circa 1396, #104604
Maude Moton was born circa 1396 at Of, Peckleton, Leicestershire, England. She was the daughter of Sir Knight Roger Moton. Maude Moton married John Gregory.
Child of Maude Moton and John Gregory Nicholas Gregory b. c 1420
Sir Knight Roger Moton (M) b. circa 1366, #104605
Sir Knight Roger Moton was born circa 1366 at Of, Peckleton, Leicestershire, England.
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My mother, Cora Gregory Sluss was born in 1921 in Cades Cove, TN. That is now part of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Her ancestry is a direct line of descent from this John Gregory (shown as Sir John in some references. I currently live in Knoxville, TN, and will soon be moving to Venice, FL. I am at dsluss.mail@gmail.com
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