help with family name. "Gray".

[rot1927]

Thanks Mazi,

I will ask to get moved to Lincolnshire Boards.   

[larkspur]

Lincs to the Past sadly does not yet cover the required date for Cranwell baptisms.

[rot1927]

Thank slarkspur,

will have a dig around Lincolnshire anyway

[JSHD2011]

One theory on the name Gray/Grey is that it is a contraction of the old french for Chalk being Crai.   Chalk mining was big business back in the day so post 1066 the Norman de Gray family took land in the areas of UK where there was chalk.    There is a Grays court in Rotherfield, Oxfordshire near Bix. There is also a link with Uffington and Kingston L'isle because the de Gray family and the de L'Ilse family were linked.

[Geoff-E]

FreeREG has only burials of GRAYs at Cranwell https://www.freereg.org.uk/

[rot1927]

thanks for the reply:
JSHD2011
GEOFF-E

I can not find a death date for Harriet  Brocklesby nee Gray, Her husband Joseph died when he was about 40ish so I don't know if she moved away after he died and possibly re-married.

 

[Geoff-E]

There was the death of a Harriet BROCKLESBY (83) in 1941, Boston district.

[rot1927]

Thanks Geoff-E
I could not find anything, I will try and find the one you have mentioned.

thanks again.

[Geoff-E]

The burial register is here (2nd one on the left)

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=621237&iid=299267