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Re: help with family name. "Gray".
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 06 December 17 13:25 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Mazi,

I will ask to get moved to Lincolnshire Boards.   :)

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Re: help with family name. "Gray".
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 06 December 17 13:59 GMT (UK) »
Lincs to the Past sadly does not yet cover the required date for Cranwell baptisms.
AREA, Nottinghamshire. Lincolnshire. Staffordshire. Leicestershire, Morayshire.
Paternal Line--An(t)(c)liff(e).Faulkner. Mayfield. Cant. Davison. Caunt. Trigg. Rawding. Buttery. Rayworth. Pepper. Otter. Whitworth. Gray. Calder. Laing.Wink. Wright. Jackson. Taylor.
Maternal Line--Linsey. Spicer. Corns. Judson. Greensmith. Steel. Woodford. Ellis. Wyan. Callis. Warriner. Rawlin. Merrin. Vale. Summerfield. Cartwright.
Husbands-Beckett. Heald. Pilkington. Arnold. Hall. Willows. Dring. Newcomb. Hawley

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Re: help with family name. "Gray".
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 06 December 17 14:04 GMT (UK) »
Thank slarkspur,

will have a dig around Lincolnshire anyway :)

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Re: help with family name. "Gray".
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 06 December 17 14:15 GMT (UK) »
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.


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Re: help with family name. "Gray".
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 07 December 17 11:28 GMT (UK) »
FreeREG has only burials of GRAYs at Cranwell https://www.freereg.org.uk/
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Re: help with family name. "Gray".
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 07 December 17 21:00 GMT (UK) »
thanks for the reply:
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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.

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Re: help with family name. "Gray".
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 07 December 17 21:10 GMT (UK) »
There was the death of a Harriet BROCKLESBY (83) in 1941, Boston district.
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« Reply #16 on: Friday 08 December 17 11:35 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Geoff-E
I could not find anything, I will try and find the one you have mentioned.

thanks again.

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Re: help with family name. "Gray".
« Reply #17 on: Friday 08 December 17 11:57 GMT (UK) »
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