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Hello,

My name is Jasmine born in Malaysia. My father is Barry son of Horace Gerald Gray who passed away in Kuching, Malaysia. He had the first radio shop in Kuching. Horace was married 3 times and my father was from his third and last marriage to Florence who is half Spanish, half Filipino. If I am not mistaken, my great grandfather was William George Gray who migrated to Malaysia and served as a headmaster at an all boys catholic school. He was the son of Alexander Gray from Portsoy and I believe he was a farmer.


This William George Gray does not tally with the William George Gray who was the son of Alexander Gray of Marble Quarry.  He died at Mill of Park, Banffshire, in 1957.

Another of Alexander's relations did die in Singapore, in the quarantine hospital.  He was a ship's captain and had caught smallpox. He was married but had no children.

There is at least one other Gray family from Portsoy but with no traced link to the Marble Quarry Grays.  Maybe your ancestors came from them?  So many used similar christian names.

I hope you do find your true tree.

Sigismunda

 

 

Thanks for that offer.  Actually I was in Portsoy about 5 years ago and went to the Marble Shop, but they had never heard of the croft.  I suspect it has been built over.  I looked at old maps and think I located it but I'm fairly sure it must be part of the new houses to the Cullen side of Portsoy.  That's a guess, however.

Many of my early ancestors fill the old cemetery in Portsoy.  The last of the direct line left at the end of the 19th century.  I believe there were still Grays at Marble Quarry Croft for some time after that, and I do remember a meeting a George Gray when I was very young, in the 1940s.

Jean

I've sorted out my link to Donald Dinnie's family now. 

Clarinda Dinnie married John Wilson Annand.  They had family including Rachel Annand who was probably the first female Master of Arts from Aberdeen University and became a well-known poet and biographer . (1876-1960).  John Wilson Annand's sister Ann (16.08.1828) married John Lawie and my grandmother was one of their children.

That's the Dinnie link, but I don't know what relation to Donald Clarinda was.  Do you?

Jean

Thank you for your reply about the Grays.

 I have a record of Ann Gray's name in the family tree  that my father's uncle drew up in about 1900.  He knew her husband's name, which matches the one you gave, but I know nothing more about her.  II'm descended from her father's young brother John (5.12.1823-15.2.1865).  Please can you apss on the 1861 and 1871 information you have for her.

I have a few bits and pieces about the Grays back to 1745.  Willing to let you have that if you don't have it already.

Jean

My grandmother was related, by the marriage of one of her cousins , to Donald Dinnie.   I think that would have made his wife an Annand.  My grandmother's surname was Lawie.  Hope that helps.

Jean Bear