When Elias Jonsson Gray Netland was born in 1636, in Nettland, Kvinnherad, Hordaland, Norway, his father, John Edvardson Grey, was 34 and his mother, Magdalena Gabrielsdatter, was 31. He married Guri or Guro Tomasdotter Hjortland about 1664, in Nettland, Kvinnherad, Hordaland, Norway. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 30 May 1709, at the age of 73.
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The State Church of Norway passed a law which required ministers to keep a written record of all baptisms, marriages, burials.
1n 1700 Norway changed from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar. The day after 18 Feb in the Julian Calendar became 1 March in the Gregorian calendar.
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.
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