When Alice Bray was born in 1808, in Penryn, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Bray, was 36 and her mother, Elizabeth Cock Rusden, was 34. She married Thomas Tregeagle on 3 May 1828, in Cuby, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Tregony, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Saint Helier, Jersey in 1861. She died in 1890, in Truro, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 82, and was buried in Gwinear, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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English: habitational name from any of the places in Berkshire and Devon. The former is probably named with Old French bray ‘marsh’, the latter from the Cornish element bre ‘hill’.
English: perhaps a topographic name from northern Middle English bra ‘steep (river) bank’ or ‘brow of a hill’, denoting someone who lived at such a place.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of several places in Normandy or Picardy called Bray (Eure, Calvados, Aisne, Somme); see 6.
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