Edna Gregory

Female24 November 1911–1 October 1996

Brief Life History of Edna

Edna Gregory was born on 24 November 1911, in Leigh, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. She died on 1 October 1996, in her hometown, at the age of 84.

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James Brown
1907–1966
Edna Gregory
1911–1996

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    World Events (3)

    1914

    Age 3

    Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.

    1918

    Age 7

    WWI ends in November with armistice. The number of UK war dead runs to several hundred thousand.

    1953 · Lancaster Priory Designated

    Age 42

    The Lancaster Priory was designated in 1953. The building goes back possibly as far as 200 CE. In 1912, the building was unearthed. The building was formally known as the Proiry Church of St. Mary is a Church of England Parish Church of Lancaster, Lancashire, England.

    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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