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- Researcher (Phil Gregory)
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Biographies
George Gregory was born in Whitechapel, London in 1833, his father, John Gregory, was 31 and his mother, Cecelia (nee Phillips), was 26 at the time of his birth.
George had three brothers and six sisters.; Godfrey, Robert (also a convict), Rebecca, Henry, Meriam, Amelia, Hannah, Maria, and Eleanor (Nellie).
George was sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing a handkerchief on the 8th of July 1850. He arrived in Australia as a convict on board the ship Aboukir in Feb 1852.
On the 17 June 1858, and 6 years after starting his sentence in Australia, George, now with a conditional pardon, married Frances Elizabeth Cohen, the daughter of a wealthy auctioneer in Balmain, NSW. On hearing of his older brother's engagement to Francis Cohen, George's younger brother Henry Gregory had sailed to Australia as a free settler to be at the wedding. He would go on to join George's timber & slate importing business. (G&H Gregory Importers).
Interestingly, George and his younger brother Henry Gregory both married sisters. Henry married Anne Cohen and George married Francis Cohen. Clearly Henry Gregory met Anne Cohen at the wedding of his brother George.
However, it is a mystery as to how George would have met his wife Francis Cohen. How did George an ex-convict living in Melbourne running his timber importing business meet and spend enough time to marry the daughter of a wealthy auctioneer in NSW?
As already mentioned, George and his brother Henry started a slate and timber importing business in Melbourne called G&H Gregory and they become local experts in imported timber and slate serving on multiple business committees around Melbourne.
Despite being a convict, George appears to have become a well respected citizen in the Melbourne business community. George died at his home called Yarra Bank (Davidson St Richmond) in 1879 and is buried with his wife Francis, his children, and some of his sisters at St Kilda Cemetery.
Submitted by Researcher (Phil Gregory) on 22 June 2022
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/17, p.295
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