When Kenneth Alvin Gray was born on 18 August 1907, in Minnesota, United States, his father, Clyde Dervin Gray, was 30 and his mother, Amelia C Tagg, was 31. He married Evelyn Faith Pentz on 17 March 1940. He immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1931 and lived in Sibley, Minnesota, United States in 1935 and Milaca, Mille Lacs, Minnesota, United States in 1940. He died on 22 July 1962, at the age of 54, and was buried in Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.
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.
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