Brief Life History of Mary S "Polly"
When Mary S "Polly" Gray was born in 1794, in Ashfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, her father, James Gray, was 28 and her mother, Esther Sabin, was 34. She married Philip Aylesworth in 1811, in Otsego, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Clinton Township, Wayne, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. She died on 3 March 1877, in Wayne, Ohio, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Craigton, Wayne, Ohio, United States.
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- Polly Aylesworth in household of Philip Aylesworth, "United States Census, 1860"
- Polly Gray, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Mary S Gray Aylsworth, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (7)
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1803
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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