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Who were Henry Knight Gregson and Eliza Mary

WHO ARE WE: This internet forum is a place for researchers who are interested in Henry Knight Gregson and Eliza Mary Donaldson Selby, their ancestors and descendants. By following the link (blue text above) "Welcome Forum for Visitors...." you will find a brief introduction to the Knight Gregson family. MEMBERS AND VISITORS: Most of the discussion groups on this site can be fully accessed by visitors. In a few instances members have posted documents which they have asked to be accessible to members only. In these cases, links to these documents may be inactive. Only members can reply to posts within a discussion. Members also have access to a BLOG which is private to members only. JOIN OUR GROUP: You can join our group by using the appropriate link in the menu just below the Knight Gregson coat of arms. If you would like more information before you join, please contact the administrator drfalken@comcast.net ADVERTISING BANNER: The ad banner just below the main menu is not sponsored by the Knight Gregson Internet Forum, rather these are placed here by Forumotion which provides free hosting to us. These ads need not be accessed to use the Knight Gregson discussions.

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Knight Gregson Gallery

Pedigree of Henry Knight Gregson

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Pedigree of Eliza Mary Donaldson Selby

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Royal Connection: The Ancestors of Eliza Mary Donaldson Selby

Inheriting the Lowlinn Estate

Knight Gregson Coat of Arms

Knight Gregson Artifacts

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Certificates and Documents

The Children of Henry & Eliza Mary

Alfred Knight Gregson (1845-1885)

Henry Knight Gregson Jr. (1847-1921)

Charles Edward Knight Gregson (1848-1913)

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George Charles Knight Gregson

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Arthur Knight Gregson (1854-1935)

Francis Sitwell K Gregson (1865-1926)

Other branches of the family

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The family de Normanton

A Royal Connection

John Gregson of Murton d. 1607

St. Andrews Church Dalton le Dale

The parish church of the early Gregsons was St. Andrews, Dalton le Dale. This was located near the family estate in Murton.

The estate at Murton

Children of John Gregson d. 1607

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Early Gregsons 1600 to 1850 discussions

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Later Generation of Gregson Family

Thomas George Gregson

Knight Pedigrees

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William Henry Knight

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The Rev. Thomas Knight

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Delaval

John Hussey Delaval was the son of Francis Blake Delaval (1692–1752), who inherited estates at Ford Castle, Northumberland from his mother Mary, née Blake, and at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland from his uncle Admiral George Delaval (1660–1723). Delaval served as Member of Parliament for Berwick on Tweed 1754–1761, 1765–1774 and 1780–1786. He was created a Baronet, of Seaton Delaval in the County of Northumberland, in the Baronetage of Great Britain in 1761, and in 1783 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Delaval, of Redford in the County of Wicklow.[3] In 1786 he was further honoured when he was made Lord Delaval, Baron of Delaval, in the County of Cumberland, in the Peerage of Great Britain. John Baron Delaval married Susannah Robinson by whom he had four daughters and one son. After Susannah's death in 1783 John married Susanna Elizabeth Knight, aunt of the Rev. Thomas Knight and great aunt of Henry Knight Gregson, progenitor of the Knight Gregson family.
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Selby

Eliza Mary Donaldson Selby, wife of Henry Knight Gregson, was the daughter of John Strangeways Donaldson Selby and Mary Dorothy Grey. In this forum we document the Selby branch of Eliza Mary's ancestry.
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Grey

The mother of Eliza Mary Donaldson Selby was Mary Dorothy Grey who was descended from the Greys of Shorseton Hall, Northumberland.
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Forster

Forster is another family linked to Eliza Mary Donaldson Selby. George Forster 1735-1798 was the Great Grandfather of Eliza Mary.
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Orde

The family of Orde
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The Knight Gregson and Hughes Family

Book Resources

There are a number of on-line resources for out-of-copyright books. Important sites include archive.org, openlibrary.org, books.google.com, etc. You can go to these sites and do a search, but some sites like archive.org do not have "content searches". Searching on author or title is easy, when you know what you are looking for. I would like to collect references which our Knight Gregson community would find useful. *** HINT: IF YOU SEARCH ON ARCHIVE.ORG AND YOU GET NO RESULTS, ALWAYS GO TO THE BOOK INDEX. DIGITAL SCANNING IS NOTORIOUSLY INACCURATE AND MAY NOT FIND WHAT YOU HAVE SEARCHED ON EVEN THOUGH IT IS ACTUALLY IN THE BOOK.*** ********* NOTE: MEMBERS CANNOT POST DIRECTLY TO THIS FORUM. PLEASE SEND INFO TO drfalken@comcast.net *********

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Member Recommended Resources

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Historic Documents

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Member Working Documents

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Lowlynn House

Although spelled in many ways, Lowlynn House was the residence of the Gregsons and Knight Gregsons in our branch of the family. This forum is dedicated to what we know about Lowlynn. (alternative spellings: Low Lynn, Lowlinn and Low linn).

Mystery of the coffin lid table at Lowlynn

There is a story in our family about a coffee table made from the coffin lid of a recently [ mid to late 1700’s ] re-interred body of General Tom Forster of the 1715 Jacobite fame. Dave Allen states: "It was apparently painted green and to quote my grandfather – it was at Lowlyn for many years”!
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