Brief Life History of Sarah Jane
When Sarah Jane Gray was born on 6 July 1842, in York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Gray, was 31 and her mother, Sarah Cowup McConochie, was 28. She married Daniel Spencer Jr on 27 December 1856, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 10 May 1914, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Sarah C Gray in household of John Gray, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Sarah Jane Gray, "England and Wales, Birth Registration Index, 1837-1920"
- Sarah Jane Grey Spencer, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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World Events (8)
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
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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