When James Bray was christened on 2 November 1732, in Mobberley, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Bray, was 49 and his mother, Alice Massey, was 45. He married Mary Wright on 18 May 1762, in Mobberley, Cheshire, England. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Micklehurst, Cheshire, England in 1732. He died after 1791, in Mobberley, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom.
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Gregorian calendar was adopted in England in 1752. That year, Wednesday, September 2, 1752, was followed by Thursday, September 14th, 1752, which caused the country to skip ahead eleven days.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
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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