When William H. Gray was born on 24 June 1767, in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Elias Gray, was 21 and his mother, Eunice Allen, was 19. He married Sarah Jennings about 1788, in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 22 September 1844, in New Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Union Cemetery, New Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.
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English, Scottish, and Irish (especially Eastern Ulster; of Norman origin): habitational name from Graye in Calvados, France, named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Graec(i)us, meaning ‘Greek’ + the locative suffix -acum. This is probably the chief source of the surname in Britain.
English: nickname for someone with gray hair or a gray beard, from Middle English grey (Old English grǣg, grēg) ‘gray’. In Ireland it has been used as a translation of various Gaelic surnames derived from riabhach ‘brindled, gray’, including Mac Giolla Riabhaigh; see McGreevy . In North America, this surname has assimilated names with similar meaning from other languages.
French: habitational name from Gray in Haute-Saône or Le Gray in Seine-Maritime.
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