Gregg (surname)
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Gregg is a common family name in the United States, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand.
According to genealogical researchers, most Americans with the surname Gregg descend from people associated with the Scottish Clan Gregor from western Scotland, some of whom settled in Ireland in the mid-17th century and changed their surname to Greg or Gregg. William Penn converted some of these Irish settlers to the Society of Friends when he visited Waterford, Ireland, in 1678, and encouraged them to settle in the New World. William Gregg (1642-1687) and his family were among that group, and these first "Quaker Greggs" left Europe in 1683 and joined the Quaker settlement in the Brandywine region, in what is now the state of Delaware.
The "New England Greggs" are the exception: they are descended from a James Gregg and Margaret Cargill who arrived in Boston and settled in New Hampshire in the Late 1700's.
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[edit] Prominent people with the surname Gregg
19th century
- Andrew Gregg (1755-1835), U.S. Representative and Senator from Pennsylvania
- William Gregg (industrialist) (1800-1867), Founder of the pioneer Graniteville, South Carolina textile mill
- James M. Gregg (1806-1869), U.S. Representative from Indiana
- Maxcy Gregg (1814-1862), American Civil War Confederate general
- Andrew Gregg Curtin (1817-1894), grandson of Andrew Gregg, governor and U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, U.S. minister to Russia
- John Irvin Gregg (1826-1892), American Civil War Union commander, cousin of David Gregg
- John Gregg (1828-1864, American Civil War Confederate general
- David McMurtrie Gregg (1833-1916), American Civil War Union general
- Alexander White Gregg (1855-1919), U.S. Representative from Texas
- John Robert Gregg (1867-1948), the creator of the eponymous shorthand system Gregg Shorthand
- Richard Bartlett Gregg (1885-1974), American philosopher, pacifist, and friend of Mahatma Gandhi
20th century
- William Gregg (soldier) (1890-1962), British First World War Victoria Cross recipient
- Hugh Gregg (1917–2003), Governor from New Hampshire
- Forrest Gregg (b. 1933), Member, Professional Football Hall of Fame
- Donald Gregg, U.S. Ambassador to South Korea (1989-1993)
- Judd Gregg (b.1947), Governor and U.S. Senator from New Hampshire
- Clark Gregg (b. 1962), film and television actor and writer
- Tommy Gregg (b. 1963), Major League Baseball player
- Michael Gregg, distinguished member of the town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, and employee of Hess Microgen
[edit] References
- Kendall, Hazel May Middleton (1944). Quaker Greggs. Anderson, Indiana: Self-published.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- The Gregg family (U.S.) American family history and geneaology
- The Gregg Family History Project (U.K.) British family history and geneaology
- Descendents of James Monroe Gregg (1845-1929)
- The Political Graveyard Contains a list of U.S. politicians named Gregg
