When Martha Gregory was born in 1809, in Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Gregory, was 35 and her mother, Ann Yonge, was 37. She married Gerrard Silcock on 1 January 1831, in Deane, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Dean by Burnley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. She died in December 1842, in Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 33, and was buried in Westhoughton Churchyard, Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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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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