When Henry William Gray was born on 23 February 1842, in Lambeth, Surrey, England, his father, William Gray, was 39 and his mother, Jane Clement, was 35. He lived in Lambeth, Surrey, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. He died on 7 August 1864, in Camberwell, Surrey, England, at the age of 22, and was buried in Lambeth, Surrey, 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.
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