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Personal data William Gregg 

• Alternative name: William Gragg
• He was born in the year 1616 in Glen Orchy, Argyll and Bute, Scotland.Sources 2, 4
• Emigrated about 1617.Source 5
• Immigrated about 1617.Source 5
• (Alt. Birth) about 1616.Source 5
• (Alt. Death) between 1671 and 1672.Source 5
• He died in the year 1672 in Ardmore, Waterford, Ireland, he was 56 years old.Sources 2, 3, 4
• He is buried in the year 1672 in Glenarm Barony, Coast of Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland.Source 5
• A child of John MacGregor and Catherine Campbell
• A child of John MacGregor and Ann Palmer
• This information was last updated on December 4, 2022.

Household of William Gregg

He is married to Mary Grace James.

They got married in the year 1644 at Armagh, Antrim, Northern Ireland, he was 28 years old.Source 2

Child(ren):

1. John Gragg  1641-1724 
2. William Gregg  ± 1642-????
3. Gregg Gregg  ± 1644-1724
4. Richard Gregg  1644-1741
5. Joanna Gregg  ± 1645-1741

Notes about William Gregg

[Norvan L. Johnson.ged]

William Gregg, oldest son of John Gregg and a Presbyterian landholder was forced to leave his inheritance of Glenarm Barony on the coast of County Antrim, Ireland after May 1653.  His father, theJohn gGeg from Clan Gregor in Scotland had died, probably about 1644,and his eldest son, William, inherited the barony and the silver-studded, ivory-headed cane (later to become the family heirloom and brought to America by his son William in 1682).
William,  born in 1616 in Scotland, left by ship aftyer May, 1653, his Glenarm Barony in County Antrim, with his three children: Richard,William, born about 1642, and the oldest son John.  Probably there were daughters, but no record of them.  With his family he settled on the southwest shore of Waterford Co., Southern Ireland, at Ardmore, where he died about 1672.  His son, John, died at the same place in1724, and son Richard died there in 1741.  Some sources put birthplace in Glenarm Barony, Antrim Co., Ireland.  This information from Ted Kuhn's "The Ruckman Family in America" web page. tedku(XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)
BIOGRAPHY: William GREGG was the victim of Charles I's suppression of the Ulster Protestants and ended up having to abandon the patrimony, fleeing by ship to southern Ireland, where he settled at Ardmore in Waterford County.  His eldest two sons died in Ireland, but his third son William came to America after becoming a member of the Society of Friends.

BIOGRAPHY: During the reign of Charles I (1625-1649) these Ulster Presbyterians were rigorously treated and insulted.  In 1642 a Scottish army under General Robert Monro landed in Ulster to help the colonists rally.  Coleraine, Enniskillen, and Carrickfergus defied as they were strong for king and covenant.  There was an insurrection at Carrickfergus in May 1653.  William Gregg, oldest son of John Gregg and a Presbyterian landholder, was forced to leave his inheritance of Glenarm Barony on the coast of County Antrim after May 1653.  This oldest son William (born 1616, Scotland) left by ship after May 1653 with three children, Richard, William born about 1643 and the oldest son John.  Probably there were daughters. With his family he settled on the southwest shore of Waterford Co., Ireland, at Ardmore where he died aboutt 1672.

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