When Collister Gray was born on 20 August 1805, in Pelham, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Collister Gray, was 28 and his mother, Hannah Calhoun, was 30. He married Larinda Hill about 1830. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Otselic, Otselic, Chenango, New York, United States in 1850. He died on 6 September 1851, in Chenango, New York, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Otselic, Chenango, New York, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Established in 1817.
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.
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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