When William Gray Jr was born on 11 August 1611, in Harrow on the Hill, Harrow, London, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Gray, was 27 and his mother, Mary Button, was 19. He had at least 3 sons and 4 daughters with Susanna. He died on 18 November 1663, in London, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 52, and was buried in London, England, United Kingdom.
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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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