When Amos Gray was born on 13 May 1798, in Greenwich, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Jeremiah Gray, was 33 and his mother, Margaret Gray, was 33. He married Betsey Cole on 26 August 1825, in Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 18 January 1877, in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Plainville Cemetery, Hadley, 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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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