Christianna Gregory

Brief Life History of Christianna

When Christianna Gregory was born on 19 March 1795, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, George Gregory, was 39 and her mother, Hannah Matthews, was 39. She married John Haines Read on 17 February 1819, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1848 and lived in Southwark, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1840 and Weber, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 25 March 1874, in Millville, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Millville, Cache, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Haines Read
1795–1832
Christianna Gregory
1795–1874
Marriage: 17 February 1819
George Gregory Read
1820–1826
Hannah Tucker Read
1821–1904
Samuel Thorington Read
1822–1823
Samuel T Reed
1822–1904
Samuel Jones Read
1824–1910
Mary Ellen Read
1825–1914
John Haines Read Jr
1828–1910
Christianna Rachel Reed
1830–1894

Sources (18)

  • Christiana Grayham, "United States, Census, 1850"
  • Marriage Certificate for John Read and Christianna Gregory 1819
  • Mormon Battalion: United States Army of the West, 1846-1848

World Events (8)

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital

Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution. 

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

Name Meaning

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 .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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