When Phebe Jane Gray was born in 1808, in Chenango, New York, United States, her father, Collister Gray, was 31 and her mother, Hannah Calhoun, was 33. She married Thomas Davis about 1827, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in New York, United States in 1870 and Perry, Perry, Wyoming, New York, United States in 1880. She died after 1880, in Wyoming, New York, United States.
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Name changed in 1808
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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