Robert M. Reid purchased a 32 page typed booklet from the College Of Arms, titled "History Of The Gregson Family of Whalley, Lancashire". Reid then, personally, visited the Whalley Parish Register, as well as the Registers of the Parish churches listed, and examined the records himself.
The pages below are the original Booklet from the College Of Arms, followed by a concise lineage leading to James Gregson, compiled by Reid, along with his statement regarding his research.
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Read more about the Gregson Coat Of Arms, and some of the questions raised about the veracity of this lineage, here:
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From the Visitation Of Yorkshire
A Heraldic Visitation
Heraldic visitations were tours of inspection undertaken by Kings of Arms (or alternatively by heralds, or junior officers of arms, acting as their deputies) throughout England, Wales and Ireland. Their purpose was to register and regulate the coats of arms of nobility, gentry and boroughs, and to record pedigrees. They took place from 1530 to 1688, and their records (akin to an upper class census) provide important source material for historians and genealogists
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