. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours. s intlie southern border of the hundreds ofShropham and Grimshow, is now reducedto little more than the parish of Kilverstoneand part of Croxton adjoining; besideswhich, they had large possessions in otherparts of the county of Norfolk and on theborders of Suffolk. Seat—Kilverstone, near Thetford, 617 GREGOR, OF TREWARTHENICK. GREGOR, GORDON-WILLIAM-FRANCIS, esq. of Trewarthenick, in the county of Cornwall, b. 2nd Oct
. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours. s intlie southern border of the hundreds ofShropham and Grimshow, is now reducedto little more than the parish of Kilverstoneand part of Croxton adjoining; besideswhich, they had large possessions in otherparts of the county of Norfolk and on theborders of Suffolk. Seat—Kilverstone, near Thetford, 617 GREGOR, OF TREWARTHENICK. GREGOR, GORDON-WILLIAM-FRANCIS, esq. of Trewarthenick, in the county of Cornwall, b. 2nd October, 1789, m. 20th June,1814, Loveday-Sarah, only daughter of Francis Glan-ville,* esq. of Catchfrench, in the same shire, by Loveday-Sarah, his wife, daughter and co-heiress of WilliamMasterman, esq. of Restormel, and has issue,Francis-Glanville, h. 3rd September, This gentleman, whose patronymic is Booker, assumedby letters patent in 1826, the surname and arms ofGregor, Mrs. Booker having the preceding year inhe-rited, by bequest from the last of the Gregor family, theestate of Trewarthenick, in Cornwall. About the middle of the seventeenthcentury, we find the Gregors resident atTruro, of which town William Gregor wasmayor in 1677, and at that period the familyseems first to have settled at Trewarthenick,where Francis Gregor, esq. resided, in descendant, another Francis Gregor, esq. of Trewarthenick,served the office of sheriff for Cornwall in1788, and was returned, in the subsequentyear, after a severe and protracted contest,member of parliament by that county, whichhe continued to represent for sixteen m. first, Catherine, dau. and co-heiress(with her sister, Loveday-Sarah, wife ofFrancis Glanville, esq. of Catchfrench,and mother of the present Mrs. Gregor, ofTrewarthenick), of William Masterman,esq. of Restormel, but had no issue, either by this lady, or by his second wife, whosurvived him
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