- CA QUA00804
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The Grass family were among the founding Loyalist families in Kingston.
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Authority record- CA QUA00555
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The Gregg family has branches in Scotland, Ireland, the United States, and Canada.
William Gregg was born in Killycreen, County Donegal, Ireland, in 1817. In 1843 he obtained a B.A from Glasgow University and in 1844 an M.A. from Edinburgh. He obtained his licentiate from the Presbytery of Edinburgh in 1845 and committed himself to three years service as a missionary in Canada under the direction of the Presbytery of Kingston. He soon accepted a call to the united congregations of Belleville, Huntingdon and Tyendinaga. The last two became a separate charge within a year and the Rev.Mr. Gregg remained in Belleville from 1847 to 1857. In 1857 he moved to Toronto where he served as minister of Cooke's Church until 1872. He was a member of the faculty of Knox College, University of Toronto, from 1867 to 1895 when he retired. In 1878 he received a Doctorate of Divinity from the University of Honour.
William Rufus Gregg, the eldest son of Rev. William Gregg, became an architect and worked in various areas including Chicago, Montreal, Ottawa, Boston, Detroit, and Albany. he was active in Toronto for over 40 years and was involved in the construction of Bloor Street Church among other projects. He was interested in watching and studying the development of cities and he wrote on several aspects of the history of Toronto.
- CA QUA01164
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Jugh and Madaline Engheimer came to America in 1721 from tha Palatinate of Alsace and the lower Rhine. They has a patent for a tract of land on the Mohawk River near Herkimer, New York. They had thirteen children. One of the children, Johan Jost Herkimer or Herchmer, the father of the Kingston branch of the family, had served in Butlers rangers during the border warfare. He left his family in the new republic and in 1784 or 1785, or perhaps as early as 1783, with his wife Mary Van Allan settled at Cataraqui (named, in 1788, Kingston). He and his wife had seven children, four boys and three girls. Lawrence, the second son, was a merchant, first at Port Hope and later at Kingston. He married Elizabeth Kirby and together they had 7 children. Charles Lawrence, the fourth son, carried on his father's business after Lawrence's death in 1819. The third son, William Macaulay, became an Anglican clergyman. Two of his sons had careers in the Royal Canadian North West Mounted Police.
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