Apology accepted
I know you really want him to be a Gray, but I think the fact that several people, independently, have come up with the suggestion that he was actually a Booker is significant. If you look at Christine's findings from yesterday, she came up with the same information that was discovered a year or so ago.
I see from one of your other posts that the birth certificate of Arthur Christopher Booker is
2nd September 1873
Shoreham - exactly the same day and place as your Arthur Christopher Grey, although a year out. To me, this is too much of a coincidence in a small village, put together with the other facts that people have found. The year difference would not be that unusual at that time as people were not so concerned with when they were born. My grandmother always claimed that she was born in 1885, but it was discovered when she died that she was acually born in 1884. I think her birth date was adjusted to cover up the fact that her parents married 3 months before she was born. Maybe something similar happened with Arthur.
