When Priscilla Ann Wray was born about September 1869, in Beeston, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Wilkinson Wray, was 31 and her mother, Dinah Jackson, was 28. She married Albert Edward Firth in December 1888, in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Farnley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881.
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English (northern):
from Middle English wra (Old Norse vrá) ‘nook, corner of land’, a topographic name for someone who lived at or by a nook, corner of land, or isolated place, or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Wray in Tunstall (Lancashire), Wrea in Kirkham (Lancashire), and High and Low Wreah in Hensingham (Cumberland). The name was taken to Ulster by a Yorkshire family in the reign of Elizabeth I, and was used interchangeably in the counties of Derry and Donegal with Raw, Ray, Rea, and occasionally McRae .
common post-medieval spelling of Ray , Rae , or Ree .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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