When Thomas Chalmers Gray was born on 18 February 1853, in Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States, his father, James Andrew Gray, was 45 and his mother, Mary Elmira Robinson, was 38. He married Nannie Catherine Burke on 11 March 1891, in Rowan, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Iredell, North Carolina, United States in 1860. He died on 31 May 1916, in Bethany Township, Iredell, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Bethany Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina, 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.
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