When Thomas Grayson was born on 12 August 1853, in Bradfield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Benjamin Grayson, was 32 and his mother, Mary Crossland, was 29. He married Sarah Brearley in July 1881. He lived in Hunshelf, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871.
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The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
The Lendal Bridge was opened in 1863, after a previous failed attempt at building it Thomas Page was brought in to design it. It is an iron bridge styled with the gothic style popular in England. When it was first opened, it was a toll bridge but in 1894, it accepted it’s last toll.
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
English (northern): variant of Graveson, ‘son of the steward, farm bailiff, or village headman’. From the North Midlands through Yorkshire to the north-west, the source is Middle English grayve, grayve, greve, a borrowing of Old Norse greifi ‘earl, count’ (see Grave ). In Durham and Northumberland the source is Middle English greve, from Old (Northumbrian) English grǣfa with the same meaning (see Grieve ).
English: possibly a habitational name from Greysouthen (Cumbria), recorded as Graysone in 1505.
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