When Oliver Gregory Sr. was born in 1827, in Clay, Kentucky, United States, his father, Rial Gregory, was 24 and his mother, Isabelle "Ibby" Crawford, was 23. He married Catherine Jones on 16 July 1848, in Clay, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Kentucky, United States in 1870. He died in November 1870, in Manchester, Clay, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 43.
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English (of Norman origin) and French: from a personal name that was popular throughout Christendom in the Middle Ages. The Greek original, Grēgorios, is a derivative of grēgorein ‘to be awake, to be watchful’. However, the Latin form, Gregorius, came to be associated by folk etymology with grex, gregis ‘flock, herd’, under the influence of the Christian image of the good shepherd. The Greek name was borne in the early Christian centuries by two fathers of the Orthodox Church, Saint Gregory Nazianzene (c. 325–390) and Saint Gregory of Nyssa (c. 331–395), and later by sixteen popes, starting with Gregory the Great (c. 540–604). It was also the name of 3rd- and 4th-century apostles of Armenia. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Gregorio , German, Slovak, and Slovenian Gregor , Polish Grzegorz, Czech Řehoř (see Rehor ), and French Gregoire , and also their patronymics and other derivatives, e.g. Polish Grzegorczyk .
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Possible Related NamesFrom Clay County, Kentucky Deed Abstract Book "C", page 456, dated 10 July, 1845. "I, Rial Gregory of Clay Co., having an infant son aged eighteen, named Oliver Gegory, and said son having served me …
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