William Gregory ⁶³⁵

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Hi again:
This is totally out of left field, but please have a look at another wild and crazy idea of mine -- and give me some advice on where I can go further to put either a yea or nay to it.
I have exhausted every avenue of records available looking for Rebecca Gregory Dyson , nor a record of a previous marriage for Thomas Dyson. We have three pieces of documentation for her so far:
1. The 1841 Census where she is listed as Rebecca Gregory, age 25 and is noted as "Independent Means"
Also notice that all the children listed on the original of this census have their last name recorded as Gregory.
2. She witnessed the Will of Thomas Dyson who died in 1846
3. We recently discovered that he died in India in 1885
So, I just entered "Rebecca Gregory" into ancestry, thinking that the people who are reading the original records often make mistakes interpreting these documents, using a birth year of 1815 +/- 2 yrs.

That brought up the following:
Rebecca Gregory - born 18 Nov 1814 and baptised 16 Dec 1814 St. Dunstan in the West, London
Parents are William Gregory and Winnifred Gregory
Address is Great Shire Lane
Occupation of Father: Law Stationer

Hmm. Thomas was a Solicitor so could there be a connection between William Gregory and Thomas?
Follow up to see if this family is listed in 1841. No. Looked at Death Records as next step.
No Death Registration for Rebecca Gregory
No Death Registration of Winnifred Gregory
One Death Registration for William Gregory, who died 3 March 1830 at age 47 @ St. Luke Old St. London
No Marriage Registration for Rebecca Gregory, however
One Registration for William Gregory, who married Winnifred Dennis on2 Jan 1814 @ St. Dunstan in the West, London.
Look for Birth Registration of William Gregory. Yes, there is a christening record dated 12 Dec 1784 at St. Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, Middlesex, for William Gregory, 22 days old, son of John Gregory, Occ: Shipwright, and wife Elizabeth Gregory. Hmmm. The Seabrooks were Shipwrights and their children were baptized at St. Dunstan and All Saints in Stepney.
I have often wondered: if Rebecca was Thomas Dyson's daughter, why would she have had "Independent Means" at 25 years of age? and where would she have gotten these means from? So now I'm wondereing if Rebecca was actually a relative or close friend on the Seabrook side and at the death of her parents, was perhaps informally adopted by Thomas and Elizabeth and she took on the Dyson name?
Maureen Lussier, April 2011
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Florence has become a real fan of "findmypast" and has been able to see copies of originals at her local LDS, so when I sent off my "could this be Rebecca Gregory from 1841 census with the Dyson family etc" e-mail, she found a Mrs. Winnifred Gregory, b. 1793 (in findmypast) who died in 1824. With your information re the wife named Elizabeth in William's Will, I looked for any post 1824 marriage to Elizabeth and found a William Gregory who married an Elizabeth Armitage 31 aug 1826 @St. Andrews, Holborn, Middlesex (LDS #M008924).
Maureen Lussier, May 1, 2011
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  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence: 7 Slater Street, 1828, Bethnal Green, London, England. ⁶³⁵

William married Winnifred Dennis on 2 Jan 1814 in St. Dunstan, Stepney, London. (Winnifred Dennis died in 1824.)

William next married Elizabeth Armitage on 31 Aug 1826 in St. Andrews, Holborn, Middlesex.