When Deacon Ebenezer Gray was born on 1 July 1743, in Pelham, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, John Grey III, was 37 and his mother, Isabel Sutherland, was 36. He married Sarah Johnston on 25 October 1766, in Pelham, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He died on 18 January 1834, in Pelham, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in West Burial Ground, Pelham, Hampshire, Massachusetts, 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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