Maggie (Maggy) Gray

[peterg42]

My Great Grandmother Margaret (Maggie) Gray was born in Burntisland Fife in 1850 (youngest child of Robert Gray and Henrietta (Paterson). She appears in the 1851 and1861 censuses in Burntisland but by 1871 both her parents having died and she seems to have moved on but I can't find her whereabouts.
My next trace of her was her marriage to William Parry in Newport Monmouthshire in Jan 1875. Does anybody have any suggestions that might be helpful?
She also had a half brother Archibald Dick born 1831, and my mother remembered being told about a visit by "Archie Gray from Burntisland" to their home in Herefordshire, which must have happened before 1915. I can't find him either. Any help would be appreciated.

[Billyblue]

Hi Peter
As you can see, this section is not for requests.  You need to ask a moderator to move this to another forum.  I would have asked for you but don't know whether you want it in a Welsh county or English county or just a general Beginners.
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Cheers
Dawn M

[MarMnkly]

Hello
Possibility - there is a Maggie Gray (aged 22) working as a domestic servant in the 1871 census, at Raeburn Cottage, St Cuthbert Edinburgh, St Georges, Midlothian, Scotland.
She gives her place of birth as Kinghorn, Fife, which I understand is only a few miles from Burntisland?

There are a couple of references to Arch Dick in the Britain Merchant Seaman Records on FindMyPast, commencing:
Register ticket 442683 in 1845 (Arch Dick of Burntisland)
1853 - Arch Dick of Fife

Mar

[MarMnkly]

Useful bit more about Archibald Dick
Results for Britain, Merchant Seamen, 1835-1857 ; series BT113
Number of register ticket 442683
Archibald Dick born at Burntisland in the county of Fife on 1 day of March 1832
Capacity - stoker
Height - growing
Hair -brown
Eyes - hazel
Complexion - dark
First went to  sea as a stoker in 1849
Age when ticketed - 17
Can write - yes
Has served in the Royal Navy - no
Has been in foreign service - no
When unemployed resides at -Burntisland
Issued at Leith 18th July 1849

[RayDen]

There is a Maggy Parry (born Scotland 1852) with husband William Parry and son John on the 1881 census:

Name:   Maggy Parry
Age:            29
Estimated birth year:   abt 1852
Relationship to Head:   Wife
Spouse:   William Parry
Gender:   Female
Where born:   Scotland
Civil Parish:   Norton Canon
County/Island:   Herefordshire
Country:   England
Street address:   Penny Plock
Marital Status:   Married
Registration district:   Weobley


Household Members:   
Name   Age
William Parry   38
Maggy Parry   29
John Parry   2

The 1911 census confirms Burntisland and that marriage was 1875.

The 1891 census shows she had been very busy (5 Children)

Name:   Maggie Parry
Age:   39
Estimated birth year:   abt 1852
Relation:   Wife
Spouse's Name:   William Parry
Gender:   Female
Where born:   Midlothian (Edinburgh), Scotland
Civil Parish:   Yazor
Ecclesiastical parish:   Yazor St Mary
Town:   Mansell Lacy
County/Island:   Herefordshire
Country:   England
Registration district:   Weobley


Household Members:   
Name   Age
William Parry   43
Maggie Parry   39
John Parry   12
Henrietta Parry   9
Sarah E Parry   7
Elizabeth Parry   5
Maggie R Parry   2
James Clee   16

Not found death as yet

Ray

[peterg42]

Thank you Ray, she was my great grandmother and was actually born in Burntisland Fife in 1850.She died in Hereford at daughter Henrietta's house 1932 and is buried (as is William) in Norton Canon Churchyard. I subsequently found out that she was working as a maid for the Pastor of St Cuthbert's Church in Edinburgh in 1871, but how she got to Monmouthshire to marry William Parry remains a mystery.
She had 9 children although 5 died in infancy/childhood and 1 in the Great War. There is a lovely memorial to then in Norton Canon Churchyard
Sarah E (actually Sarah Helen) was my much loved Nan.
Henrietta and Elizabeth also lived into old age.