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« on: Friday 24 February 12 14:27 GMT (UK) »
Given that George GRAY and Priscilla BURTON/BOURTON/BORTON appear to have been married at St Swithin's Walcot, Bath in 1798, I took a look yesterday at St Swithin's Walcot christenings via FreeREG/Bath Hundred Yahoo group files.
There was a George GRAY christened at St Swithin's Walcot, Bath on 12 October 1783, parents John GRAY and Mary.
This compares with "our" George GRAY being born in about 1781 according to the 1841 census and in about 1779 according to his death certificate in 1845.
Perhaps the "yes" to the "Born in Wiltshire?" question in the 1841 census might be wrong? It wouldn't be the first time an enumerator got that one wrong.
What do you think?
(That said, the many Isaac Grays going back in the Semley records are very suggestive. I still haven't found any likely looking children of George Gray christened in Somerset or Wiltshire between 1798 and 1805. Perhaps there is an unrecorded/lost/untranscribed "James, son of George Gray" out there somewhere.)
I'm not sure where being the child of "John and Mary" would get us even if it is true. Why couldn't his parents have been called Arbuthnot and Lavinia or somesuch? ;-)