When Patience Gray was born on 21 March 1774, in Pelham, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Captain Isaac Gray, was 44 and her mother, Mary Maklem, was 44. She married Billius Stocking Sr about 1800, in Lisbon, St. Lawrence, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 20 April 1850, at the age of 76, and was buried in Flackville, Lisbon, St. Lawrence, New York, 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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