When Matilda Bray was born on 28 February 1821, in New Jersey, United States, her father, Andrew Bray, was 31 and her mother, Sarah Rittenhouse, was 24. She died on 30 May 1833, in her hometown, at the age of 12, and was buried in Moore Family Burying Ground, Sergeantsville, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States.
English: habitational name from any of the places in Berkshire and Devon. The former is probably named with Old French bray ‘marsh’, the latter from the Cornish element bre ‘hill’.
English: perhaps a topographic name from northern Middle English bra ‘steep (river) bank’ or ‘brow of a hill’, denoting someone who lived at such a place.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of several places in Normandy or Picardy called Bray (Eure, Calvados, Aisne, Somme); see 6.
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