When Elizabeth Bray was born about 1720, in Milverton, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Bray, was 38 and her mother, Alice Massey, was 34. She married John Chorley on 6 April 1743, in Mobberley, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Mobberley, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years.
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English: habitational name from any of the places in Berkshire and Devon. The former is probably named with Old French bray ‘marsh’, the latter from the Cornish element bre ‘hill’.
English: perhaps a topographic name from northern Middle English bra ‘steep (river) bank’ or ‘brow of a hill’, denoting someone who lived at such a place.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of several places in Normandy or Picardy called Bray (Eure, Calvados, Aisne, Somme); see 6.
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