When Catherine Gray was born on 26 February 1797, in Palatine, Montgomery, New York, United States, her father, Samuel Gray Sr., was 46 and her mother, Catharina Sutz, was 43. She married Wilhelm Snell on 27 February 1814, in Stone Arabia, Palatine, Montgomery, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Bath, Steuben, New York, United States in 1870 and Bath, Bath, Steuben, New York, United States in 1875. She died in 1875, at the age of 78, and was buried in Avoca, Steuben, New York, United States.
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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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