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Where did the Scottish Gray family come from? What is the Scottish Gray family crest and coat of arms? When did the Gray family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Gray family history?
Gray is a name, who ancestors come from the noble Boernician clans of the Scottish-English border region. It is a name for a person who had gray hair. In Scotland, the surname Gray actually came from two different derivations. As a nickname, it came from the Gaelic word riabhach, which means gray. As a habitational name, it derived from the place named Graye, in Calvados. This place-name came from the Gallo-Roman personal name, Gratus, which means welcome or pleasing. Gray is therefore a nickname and a habitation name, which belongs to the category of hereditary surnames. Nicknames form a broad and miscellaneous class of surnames, and can refer directly or indirectly to one's personality, physical attributes, mannerisms, or even their habits of dress. Habitation names are one of several types of local names, including: topographic surnames, which could be given to a person who lived beside any physical feature, such as a hill, stream, church or type of tree. Members of the Gray family were first found in Northumberland.
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Boernician names that evolved in the largely preliterate Middle Ages are often marked by considerable spelling variations. Gray has been spelled Gray, Grey, Groy, Croy, Graye and others.First found in Northumberland, with Anschatel Groy of Haute Saone, Normandy, who fought with William the Conqueror in 1066 AD. After the conquest, Anschatel Groy settled in Chillingham, Northumberland. He was from the department of Haute Saone called Gray, sometimes Groy, or Croy, in Normandy. From this house sprang the Grays of Suffolk, Kent, Tankerville, and Stamford. John de Gray (died 1214) was Bishop of Norwich in Norfolk, and later became Archbishop of Canterbury, but was never confirmed.
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Some of the Boernician-Scottish Clan families who came to North America were Loyalists who went north to Canada after the American War of Independence. Families on both sides of the border went on to found two of the world's great nations. This century, families with Scottish roots have rediscovered their heritage through highland games and clan societies. An inquiry into the early roots of North American families reveals a number of immigrants bearing the name Gray or a variant listed above:
Gray Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- Abraham Gray, who landed in America in 1620
- Stephen Gray, who landed in Maryland in 1634-1641
- Francis Gray who settled in Virginia in 1635 with his wife Alice
- Tha Gray, who landed in Virginia in 1638
- Alice Gray, who landed in Virginia in 1650
Gray Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Sarah Gray, who landed in Virginia in 1722
Gray Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Walter Gray, who landed in New York, NY in 1811
- William Gray, who arrived in Charleston, SC in 1813
- Zachariah Gray, who landed in New York in 1834
- Adam Gray, who arrived in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pa in 1836
- Adolph Gray, aged 36, arrived in Missouri in 1840
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- George William Gray CBE, FRS (b. 1926), Professor of Organic Chemistry who was instrumental in developing the long-lasting materials which made liquid crystal displays possible
- Alfred Gray (1939-1998), American mathematician
- Bowman Gray Sr. (1874-1935), former president and chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
- Carl R. Gray (1867-1939), president of the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) 1920-1937
- Sergeant Ross Franklin Gray (1920-1945), awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1945 for his heroic service in the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II
- Gordon Gray (1909-1982), recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Harry Barkus Gray (b. 1935), American chemist awarded the Priestley Medal in 1991, The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry and the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2004
- Major-General Carl Raymond Jr. Gray (1889-1955), American Administrator of Veterans Affairs (1947-1953)
- Alasdair Gray (b. 1934), Scottish writer and artist
- Professor Sir Alexander Gray (1882-1968), Scottish economist, academic, translator writer and poet
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- Direct Ancestors of the Parker and Gray Families by Elizabeth Gray Parker.
- A Family History, Gray-Avery and Related Families by Lewis and Ruby Gray.
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The crest of your clan chief, encircled within the traditional strap and buckle bearing the chief's motto. Scottish clansmen would traditionally wear a badge depicting the crest of their chief, in order to show their loyalty to the clan. These items have been carefully researched using the most recognized historical sources. Images have been computer drawn according to heraldic standards.
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A clan is a social group made up of a number of distinct branch-families that actually descended from, or accepted themselves as descendants of, a common ancestor. The word clan means simply children. The idea of the clan as a community is necessarily based around this idea of heredity and is most often ruled according to a patriarchal structure. For instance, the clan chief represented the hereditary "parent" of the entire clan. The most prominent example of this form of society is the Scottish Clan system... More
Septs of the Distinguished Name Gray
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- Best, Hugh. Debrett's Texas Peerage. New York: Coward-McCann, 1983. Print. (ISBN 069811244X).
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- Crozier, William Armstrong Edition. Crozier's General Armory A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor. New York: Fox, Duffield, 1904. Print.
- Hanks, Patricia and Flavia Hodges. A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Print. (ISBN 0-19-211592-8).
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