When Adam Talley Wray was born in 1788, in Franklin, Virginia, United States, his father, James Wray, was 30 and his mother, Mary Talley, was 23. He married Mary Childress Agee on 1 June 1813, in Franklin, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 30 August 1865, in Franklin, Virginia, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Wray Cemetery, Franklin, Virginia, United States.
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English (northern):
from Middle English wra (Old Norse vrá) ‘nook, corner of land’, a topographic name for someone who lived at or by a nook, corner of land, or isolated place, or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Wray in Tunstall (Lancashire), Wrea in Kirkham (Lancashire), and High and Low Wreah in Hensingham (Cumberland). The name was taken to Ulster by a Yorkshire family in the reign of Elizabeth I, and was used interchangeably in the counties of Derry and Donegal with Raw, Ray, Rea, and occasionally McRae .
common post-medieval spelling of Ray , Rae , or Ree .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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