Alice Bray

Brief Life History of Alice

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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Family Time Line

Thomas Tregeagle
1803–1860
Alice Bray
1808–1890
Marriage: 3 May 1828
Elizabeth Tregeagle
1829–
Thomas Bray Tregeagle
1835–
Alice Tregeagle
1851–1911
Richard Tregeagle
1831–
Mary Ann Tregeagle
1834–1900
James Tregeagle
1837–1880
Samuel Tregeagle
1845–1912

Sources (23)

  • Alice Tregeagle, "England and Wales Census, 1861"
  • Christening of Alice Bray, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
  • Alice Bray, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"

World Events (7)

1808 · The British West Africa Squadron

The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.

1815

The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

1830

Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).

Name Meaning

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.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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