When Samuel Gray was born on 13 November 1795, in Townshend, Windham, Vermont, United States, his father, Jonas Gray, was 30 and his mother, Hannah Wiswall, was 28. He married Malinda Johnson on 2 April 1822, in Putney, Windham, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He died on 13 August 1870, in Townshend, Windham, Vermont, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Townshend, Windham, Vermont, 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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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