When Jackson Wray was born on 8 June 1878, in Beeston, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Wilkinson Wray, was 40 and his mother, Dinah Jackson, was 37. He married Emily Fletcher on 1 August 1903, in Leeds St Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. He lived in Wortley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1921 and Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom in 1939. He died in 1945, in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 67, and was buried in Wortley, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
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 .
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