Katherine Wright

Notes:

Was present the births of most of her grandchildren and last presence recorded in 1751 so presumably died shortly thereafter. She was 73 at the 1751 birth.

Katherine married Jonathan Newman on 19 Oct 1707 in Devonshire House Meeting, London, England. Jonathan (son of John Newman and Elizabeth Ryly) was born on 9 Oct 1676 in Houndsditch, London, England; died on 23 Jan 1740 in Wandsworth, Surrey, England; was buried on 29 Jan 1740 in Long Lane burial ground, Southwark. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

«u»RG6/1106
London & Middx Monthly Meeting of Peel's Court, John Street, Westminster: Births 1644-1775«/u»

«u»
RG6/1106 00099«/u» (copy obtained)

Nathaniel Newman, son of Jonathan and Katherin Newman, was Born on ye 31\super st\nosupersub of October 1707 in Cripplegate Parish. Present at the Birth: Katherine Dodson, Midwife; Eliz. Newman; Sarah Wright; Mary Franklin.

«u» RG6/331 00495 p. 422«/u» (copy obtained)
Peel Burials
1712 - Nathaniel Newman, son of Jonathan Newman, aged about seven years, Dyed in Pudding Lane the 23\super rd\nosupersub 4 mo called June, 1712, Searcher's Report of the Small Pox.

Notes:

RG6/328 ff 00131 p. 96 (copy obtained)
Peel Births
Mary Newman, Daughter of Jonathan Newman and Katherine his Wife was Born on the Sixth Day of the 11 mo 1710 in Cripplegate Parish. Present: Katherine Dodson (Midwife). Ann Bride[l-], Mary Franklin senior, Mary Franklin junior

Book 392 p.1702
Mary Newman born 6th day 11 mo 1710 Cripplegate
Parents: Jonathan & Katherine
Peel MM

Mentioned in Abraham Gray's will so was living in 1789.

Mary married John Gray on 13 May 1727 in Society of Friends, Wandsworth, Surrey. John (son of John Gray and Mary Varnham) was born about 1706; died before 1789. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

«u»RG6/331 00389 p. 316«/u» (copy obtained)
Peel Burials
1709 - A Child of Jonathan Newman aged about 8 days died ye 7\super th\nosupersub 6 mo 1709 in Cripplegate parish.

Notes:

«u»RG6/331 00496 p. 423«/u» (copy obtained)
Peel Burials
1712 - Nathaniel Newman, son of Jonathan Newman, aged about Twelve Days, Dyed the 27\super th\nosupersub Day of September 1712, Searcher's Report of Convulsions, Fitts, in Pudding Lane.

Notes:

«u»RG6/331 00582 p. 509 «/u»(copy obtained)
Peel Burials
Katherine Newman, Daughter of Jonathan Newman of the Parish called St Margaret, New Fish Street, London, aged about eight Days, dyed the 16\super th\nosupersub day of ye Sixth month, called August, 1714. Searcher's Report of a Convulsion in the Bowel.

Notes:

There is a Kath.Gray at the marriage of Rebecca Walker to Abraham Gray in 1743.

RG8/328 ff 00515 p.480 (copy obtained)
Southwark Births
Katherin Gray, Daughter of John Gray, Distiller, and Katherine his Wife, was born on the 9th Day of ye 11 mo called January 1729, in the Burrough of Southwark, in the Parish of St Saviour, Ditto. Present at the Birth: Katherine Dodson (Midwife), Mary Gray, Katherine Newman

Think this is a rare mistake in Quaker records as Mary Newman, not Katherine was the wife of John GRAY, distiller. Date is right for birth of first child of John and Mary GRAY. Katherine Newman was the mother of Mary GRAY. Additional records have the correct names.

Notes:

February is the last month of the old year and March is the first month of the new. For example, Child A born July 1739 and Child B born Feb 1740 are 19 months apart.

RG6/328 00540 p.505 (copy obtained)
Southwark Births 1731
Edward Gray, Son of John Gray, and Mary Gray, was Born on ye 8th day of ye second month called April 1731 in ye Borough of Southwark, in the Parish called St Saviour. Present at his Birth: Katherine Dodson, Midwife, Ann Gray, Katherine Newman

Must have died before 1742 when another Edward was baptised.

Notes:

RG6/328 00579 p. 544 (copy obtained)
Bull and Mouth Births 1734
Wright Gray Son of John Gray of Watling Street London Distiller, and Mary his Wife, was born in Watling Street aforesaid in the Parish called St Augustin on the thirteenth Day of the Sixth Month called August, One Thousand Seven hundred and Thirty four. Present at the said Birth: Mary Baker, Midwife, K. Newman, Jane Dowle

Not mentioned in Abraham Gray's will so presumably dead by 1789.

Notes:

John Gray Son of John Gray of Watling Street London Distiller and Mary his Wife, was born on the thirteenth Day of the Second Month called April One Thousand Seven hundred & Thirty Six, in Watling Street aforesaid in the Parish of St Augustins. Present at his Birth: Mary Baker, Midwife, K. Newman, Jane Dowle

Died of 'mortification of the bowels'.

Notes:

RG6/328 00616 p. 581 (copy obtained)
Bull & Mouth Births 1738
Nathaniel Gray Son of John Gray Distiller and of Mary his Wife was born on Twenty Fourth Day of the Second Month called April One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight in Watling Street in the parish called St Augustins. Present at his Birth: Mary Baker, Midwife, Katherine Newman, Mary Lister

Died aged about 15 of convulsions.

Notes:

RG6/328 00627 p. 592 (copy obtained)
Bull & Mouth Births
Mary Gray Daughter of John Gray Distiller and of Mary his Wife was Born on the twentieth Day of the Fifth Month called July One Thousand Seven Hundred and thirty nine in Watling Street in the parish called St Augustins. Present at her Birth: Mary Baker, Midwife, Katherine Newman, Mary Lister

Notes:

Her parents named on Hannah (GRAY) SHAW's Death Notice in the Cape archives.

RG6/328 00638 p. 603 (copy obtained)
Bull & Mouth Births 1740
Newman Gray Son of John Gray Distiller and of Mary his Wife was born on the Twenty Eighth Day of the Twelfth Month called February One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty in Watling Street in the Parish called St Augustin, London. Present at his Birth: Mary Baker, Midwife, Mary Gray, Katherine Newman


Boyd's marriage index
1772 «tab»GRAY «tab»NEWMAN «tab»WILKINSON «tab»JANE «tab»SOCIETY OF FRIENDS«tab»

Westminster MM Men's Meeting Rough Minutes (1772-1780)
1772 - searched for references to Newman Gray/Jane Wilkinson. Reference found. Photo taken.
"At a Monthly Meeting for Westminster held at ye Savoy the 5«sup»th«/sup» of the 8«sup»th«/sup» month 1772 Newman Gray ….. and Jane Wilkinson ….. proposed their intention of taking each other in marriage ….. young man recommended from Gracechurch Meeting by Thos. Thresher and Jas. Freeman …. he produced certificate of his Father and Mother and the young woman's Mother's Consent to their said proposal ….. This meeting appoints Jno. Hatch and Jon. Hill with Eliz. Hatch and Ann Moline to make enquiry of their [conversation] and clearance

228 (copy obtained)
Newman Gray of Temple bar citizen and Ironmonger by Trade a Wine merchant Son of John Gray of Reading in Berkshire and Mary his Wife and Jane Wilkinson of Salisbury court in the Parish called St Bride's London Daughter of Joseph Wilkinson late of Carlisle in Cumberland deceased by Jane his Wife him Surviving ….. Accomplishing of their said Marriage this third day of the Ninth Month called September in the Year One Thousand seven Hundred and seventy two …… in a publick Assembly of the aforesaid people and others in their Meeting house at the Savoy …… 42 witnesses including Relations: John Gray, Mary Gray, Jon. Abr. Gray, Hannah Awbry, Joseph Wilkinson, [Kitty] Wilkinson, Henrietta Gray, John Lister.

Mentioned in 1798 -1794 will of Abraham Gray, his uncle

He is listed in various London directories as a brandy and wine merchant - from 1779, 1780 at 89 Newgate St, 1789,1790, 1791 at 10 St Martin's Lane, 1795 to 1803 at 24 Newgate Street, City of London. Parish of Tottenham on will.

Also: Newman Gray
Dates: «tab» «tab»1751-1775
Gender: «tab» «tab»Male
Address: «tab» «tab»

Address(es): Newgate street
Source Date: «tab» «tab»1768
Source Info: «tab» «tab»

Subscribed to Daphnis: A Poetical, Pastoral Novel. Translated from the German of Mr. Gessner, The celebrated Author of the Death of Abel. By an English gentleman, who resided several Years at Hamburgh. To which is prefixed, A prefatory Discourse on the Origin and Use of Pastoral Poetry., 1768, GESSNER, Salomon. London
Sold by J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; T. Cadell, in the Strand; W. Owen, Temple-Bar; G Kearsley, Ludgate-street; J. Wilkie and W. Nicoll, in St.Paul's Church-yard; and W. Davenhill, at the Royal Exchange. M DCC LXVIII.
Subject: poetry

The address suggests it is the same person.

Description «tab»Will of Newman Gray, Brandy Merchant of Newgate Street , City of London 1801
Date «tab»of probate 27 November 1809
Catalogue reference «tab»PROB 11/1505links to the Catalogue
Dept «tab»Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Series «tab»Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers
Piece «tab»Name of Register: Loveday Quire Numbers: 786 - 846

London Apprenticeship Abstracts 1442-1850
1757 «tab»Gray Newman, son of John, Watling Street, London, distiller, to Jonathan Steele, 25 May 1757, Ironmongers' Company.
«u» Ms 16977/2 - Freedom Admissions 1706-1787

«/u»Item 4, p.59

Newman Gray was admitted free by service of Jonathan Steel 25 Jun 1764

«u» Ms 16987/6 - Quarterage Books «/u»(subscriptions)

1767 - 1«sup»st«/sup» entry found for Newman Gray, due to pay 1/4d
1771 - Gray, Newman, 4/-
1783 - Gray, Newman, £1 (copy obtained, a good page)
1784 - Gray, Newman, £1-2-0d

After this date, addresses are given (copies obtained for each change of address):

1785 - Newman Gray of George Yard, Lombard Street, due to pay 1/3
1786 - Newman Gray, No. 12 George Yard, W1778*, £1-4-8d
1787 - Newn. Gray, Geo. Yd. Lomb. St. Rec'd £1-4-0d, arrears 2-0d
1788 - Newn. Gray. No. 10. St Ms. Lane, Cann. St., arrears 4-0d
1790 - Newman Gray, No. [?], Newgate Street & Martin's Lane, Cann. St, 1-4
1802 - Newman Gray, Newgate Street, 4
1804 - Newman Gray, Hitchin, arrears 4d

When studying the copies, note that Newman Gray moves up the list over time, as a result of the death of members who became freemen earlier.


There is some connection between the families of Gray, Shaw, a'Beckett and Steele as Wm A'Beckett's will of 1845 and 1848 describe a Wilkinson as the 'brother' of Jane Shaw and William Steele Wilkinson as a'Beckett's nephew. Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of Hannah Gray and granddaughter of Newman Gray refers in her will of 1847 to the expectation of a legacy from Mrs Jane Shaw, wife of William a'Beckett.«tab»«tab»«tab»«tab»«tab»«tab»«tab»«tab»«tab»«tab»«tab»

Family/Spouse: Jane Wilkinson. Jane (daughter of Joseph Wilkinson and Jane Steel) was born on 3 Feb 1745 in Holme Cultram, Cumberland, England; died on 9 Apr 1807 in Hitchin Herts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

RG6/328 00657 p. 622 (copy obtained)
Gracechurch Street Births
Edward Gray Son of John Gray Distiller and of Mary his Wife was Born on the Fourth Day of the Month called December One Thousand Seven hundred Forty Two in Watling Street, in the parish called St Augustin. Present at his Birth: Mary Baker, Midwife, Ka: Newman, Elizth. Jones

Legacy revoked in codicil of 22nd March 1793 of uncle Abraham's will.

From:http://www.geocities.com/athens/7734/dat28.htm#10
This birth date corresponds exactly with the Quaker record.

Oakes, Margaret
Gender: Female
Family:

Marriage: 13 JAN 1767
Spouse:

Gray, Edward William
Birth : 4 DEC 1742 London
Death : 22 DEC 1810 Montreal, Canada
Gender: Male
Parents:

Father: Gray, John

Extensive reference to him the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=36555&query=Gray
GRAY, EDWARD WILLIAM, merchant, notary, lawyer, office holder, and militia officer; b. 4 Dec. 1742 in London, England, son of John Gray; d. 22 Dec. 1810 in Montreal, Lower Canada.

Edward William Gray came to Montreal in May of 1760 aboard the British warship Vanguard. Settling there, he engaged for a few years in the general trade of the colony. In 1764 he served as deputy registrar, acting provost marshal, and deputy commissary for the District of Montreal; that December, as provost marshal, he arrested the soldiers suspected of assaulting the merchant Thomas Walker* and transported them to Quebec. On 12 June 1765 he was formally appointed deputy for the Montreal District of the absentee provost marshal, Nicholas Turner. He was commissioned a notary public on 7 Oct. 1765 and a lawyer three years later. On 13 Jan. 1767 Gray married Margaret Oakes and through his marriage became related to the fur traders Forrest Oakes* and Lawrence Ermatinger*. About this time as well he opened a vendue and commission business, importing goods from London merchants, advertising their arrival in the local press, and then auctioning them; he also sold on commission.

In 1775, at the beginning of the American revolution, Gray was appointed major of a corps of volunteers he had raised among the Montreal merchants. During the rebel occupation of the city that winter, he was regarded with suspicion by American brigadier-general David Wooster, the civil and military administrator of Montreal and district. When Major-General Richard Montgomery*'s defeat at Quebec on the night of 30\endash 31 December became known, Wooster ordered the arrest of Gray, Ermatinger, and ten other prominent citizens, but he was obliged to release them under public pressure. On 16 Jan. 1776 he demanded the disarming of three Montreal suburbs considered loyal to the British, and to ensure the cooperation of the citizens he had Gray and René-Ovide Hertel* de Rouville taken hostage; however, once again public opinion forced Wooster to release his prisoners. Ultimately he decided to rid the city of its most prominent loyalists and on 6 February, when Gray and three Canadians, including Georges-Hippolyte Le Comte* Dupré and Thomas-Ignace Trottier* Dufy Desauniers, refused to surrender their British commissions as militia officers, they were arrested and imprisoned at Fort Chambly.

On 1 May 1776, perhaps even before Gray's release, Governor Guy Carleton appointed him postmaster at Montreal, a position he held until replaced by Edward Edwards in 1786. Gray was also named on 1 May 1776 to succeed Turner as provost marshal, but with the title of sheriff. As sheriff Gray served summonses to witnesses and defendants in court cases, executed writs of distraint against accused debtors, and enforced punishments imposed by the courts, including arrests and the maintenance of prisoners in jail, and the selling of property at auction for payment of debt. Another of his duties was the collection of rents due to the government from leased crown and clergy reserve lots. Under an ordinance of 1787 the sheriff became responsible also for summoning grand jurors to hear criminal cases in the Court of King's Bench. The task of compiling jury lists was not always easy, and Gray kept a list "of Persons who . . . treated me with Contemptuous language." His average annual income as sheriff between 1777 and 1786 was £471, of which approximately £100 was salary and the rest fees.

Gray received a number of other commissions after the American withdrawal from Canada in 1776. On 25 June he was appointed by Carleton to a three-man commission to investigate in the District of Montreal the nature and extent of Canadian collaboration with the enemy during the American invasion; that August he was named a justice of the peace. He received a commission as notary for the province at large on 23 Aug. 1781, but because of his many official duties, he practised little. In April 1783 he was appointed a manager, responsible for ticket sales, of a lottery for the building of a new jail at Montreal; the lottery apparently failed for the old prison, dating back to the French régime, continued in use.

Even though a full-time sheriff, Gray maintained his commercial interests. In November 1785 he acquired at auction the printing equipment of Fleury Mesplet*, but was then obliged to rent it back to Mesplet, who was the only person in Montreal capable of using it; Gray finally sold the press to Edward Edwards about 1794. In August 1787, the same month that his brother Jonathan Abraham advertised the opening of a vendue and commission business in Montreal, Gray announced that he was continuing his auction business, located on Rue Saint-Vincent, despite rumours to the contrary; these had been generated perhaps by his neglect of the concern as a result of illness and the demands of the sheriff's office. Indeed, he felt that he could expand, even though conditions were far from favourable for such a venture; the North West Company was absorbing many of the smaller merchants, and others found it more economical and practical to order through large importing houses in the city. On 1 May 1792, in order to ensure continuation of the business, Gray took into partnership his nephew by marriage Frederick William Ermatinger*, giving him a one-third share in the firm, now called Gray and Ermatinger. Gray withdrew in October 1795 because his position as sheriff was occupying most of his time. He had already relinquished his post of justice of the peace in 1791, and in 1798 he ceased entirely to practise as a notary. Jonathan Abraham, who had received a commission as notary for the District of Montreal on 31 March 1796, and had it extended to Lower Canada at large in 1798, eventually became one of the most prominent notaries in Montreal. As a member of the commercial community Gray had been active in the merchants' attempts to influence the political and economic direction of the colony [see George Allsopp]. In 1784, for example, when Lawrence Ermatinger experienced financial difficulties, Gray complained that there was no law in the colony to enable a creditor to recover his money from a bankrupt or sue the bankrupt's debtors. In 1790 and 1791 he was a director of the Montreal branch of the Agriculture Society, which sought to stimulate commercial agriculture in the colony.

Gray continued to be active in the militia and on 16 July 1787 was appointed by Lord Dorchester [Guy Carleton] colonel commandant of the British Militia of the Town and Banlieu of Montreal; thereafter he was commonly known in the city as "the Colonel." Jonathan Abraham became an ensign in the regiment the same year, was promoted lieutenant by 1790, and became captain in 1803. By the early 1790s the British inhabitants of Lower Canada had begun to fear that the French revolution, through its influence on the Canadians, might overthrow British rule in the colony. When in July 1794, following the example of Quebec, some citizens of Montreal under the chairmanship of James McGill formed an organization to support British rule \endash called simply the Association \endash Gray became a member of its managing committee. In October 1796 he was "roughly seized" by a number of Canadians influenced by revolutionary thinking and news of an imminent French invasion of Canada and was prevented from arresting a Canadian charged with disobeying a controversial road law. Three years later he was a member of a committee, which included McGill, Simon McTavish, and John Richardson*, to receive and remit voluntary subscriptions raised to aid Britain in the prosecution of the war in Europe.

Throughout the 1790s and early 1800s Gray continued to accumulate government appointments. He was a returning officer in Montreal for the House of Assembly elections in 1792, 1796, and 1801. On 29 May 1805 he was appointed a commissioner for the building of churches and parsonages and on 22 July a commissioner for repairing them. As sheriff he was responsible for the Montreal prison, and in March 1804, at the request of Lieutenant Governor Sir Robert Shore Milnes*, he reported on the reasons for its distressing inability to contain its occupants. The debate over the financing of a new prison became one of the more heated in Lower Canadian politics.

In addition to all his public and business activities Gray was active socially. He had joined the freemasons on 16 Oct. 1760 aboard the Vanguard, and on 12 March 1762 was secretary of a meeting in Montreal to organize the first lodge in the city, later called St Peter's No.4, Quebec. In 1779 he was an instigator of the movement to establish a branch in Montreal of the Quebec Library, founded that year by Governor Haldimand. Although they were from a Quaker background, Edward William and Jonathan Abraham were members of the Protestant Congregation of Montreal, an Anglican body; in 1789 Edward William was one of its trustees and Jonathan Abraham its treasurer, and in 1805 both were members of the committee for building Christ Church [see Jehosaphat Mountain].

Edward William Gray died in 1810 after an illness of eight days, having been sheriff, his obituary noted, "with honor to himself and satisfaction to the public." According to his request, he was buried without pomp in the Protestant cemetery (Dufferin Square), but the funeral was attended by a large number of his friends and fellow citizens. He was survived by his wife (they had no children) and succeeded as sheriff by Frederick William Ermatinger. Gray's brother, Jonathan Abraham, died on 31 July 1812; another brother, John*, became first president of the Bank of Montreal.

«i»Eira's note: this John is also described in this dictionary but came from Scotland so unlikely to have been related.«/i»

Edward married Margaret Oakes on 13 Jan 1767 in Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

RG6/328 00668 p. 633 (copy obtained)
Gracechurch Street Births
Susanna Gray Daughter of John Gray of Watling Street London Distiller and of Mary his Wife, was Born on the Eighth Day of the Twelfth Month called February, One Thousand Seven hundred and Forty Three, in Watling Street aforesaid in the Parish called St Augustin. Present at her Birth: Elizth. Child, Midwife, Kn. Newman, Elizth. Jones

She was baptised nearly 20 years after her birth and the following year 1762 another six of her siblings were baptised in a CoE church. As they were Quakers, this poses something of a mystery.

IR 26/382 «tab»Administration letter of Susannah Gray, Spinster of St George Hanover Square, Middlesex

There are letters of admon for a Susannah Gray, spinster for the sum of £450 to be left to her mother Mary, widow; address is 313 Oxford Street, St George Hanover Square. It is not possible that this is the daughter of John and Mary GRAY as Mary was born in 1710.

Notes:

RG8/328 ff 00703 p. 668 (copy to be obtained)
Gracechurch Street
Jonathan Abraham Gray Son of John Gray of Watling Street, London Distiller and Mary his Wife was born on the Twenty Ninth Day of the Third Month called May One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Six in the parish of Wandsworth in the County of Surrey. Present at his Birth: Ann Shephard (Midwife), Katherine Newman, Rebecca Gray, Susanna Harris

Mentioned in 1798 -1794 will of Abraham Gray, his uncle


Appears in various London directories as below

1776-1800
Location: «tab» «tab»London
Occupation: «tab» «tab»merchant commerce(s)
Gender: «tab» «tab»Male
Address: «tab» «tab»

Address(es): 21, Savage Gardens, London
Occupation: «tab» «tab»

Occupation(s): merchant, commerce(s)
Source Date: «tab» «tab»1779
Source Info: «tab» «tab»

Listed in The Complete Pocket Book, or Gentleman and Tradesman's Daily Journal, for ... 1779, 1779. London
Printed by J. Johnson and J. Payne

Address in 1774 : 71, Leadenhall street, London

Jonathan Abraham Gray «tab»1796-1812 in http://www.rootsweb.com/~qcmtl-e/Notaire.html (Land and Registry records in Montreal) and Edward William Gray ( who was a brother of Jonathan Abraham Gray) 1777 -1798. The years fit with their years of birth.

From http://www.geocities.com/athens/7734/dat28.htm#10. Edward William fits as a brother of Jonathan as does John but not George or Alexander. John the brother's birth year is given as 1756 and birthplace possibly Scotland but Jonathan's brother John died in 1756.

Gray, John -father
Gender: Male
Family:

Children:

Gray, Jonathan Abraham
Death : 31 JUL 1812
Gender: Male
Gray, Alexander
Gray, George
Gray, Edward William
Gray, John

from a reference in Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online about a John Molson:
"according to the declaration they made in the marriage contract drawn up that day by «b»notary«/b» Jonathan Abraham Gray."

Other reference to John Molson in the marriage above
"Other materials concerning him are held at the McGill Univ. Libraries, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Coll., CH16.S52, CH330.S290; McCord Museum, M19110, M19113-15, M19117, M19124, and M21228; and ANQ-M, in the minute-books of notaries Isaac Jones Gibb (CN1-175), Jonathan Abraham Gray (CN1-185), and Henry Griffin (CN1-187); Musée du château Ramezay, docs.520 and 523; Bank of Montreal Arch., Court Committee of Directors, minute-books, 1817-36. a.d.]"

Jonathan married Mary Lock on 20 Jan 1785 in St Mary's, Leyton, Essex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The National Archives
RG6/329
London & Middlesex: Quarterly Meeting - Births 1747-1775

RG6/329 00035 p. 5 (photocopy obtained)
Gracechurch Street Births 1748
Elizabeth Gray Daughter of John Gray of Watling Street, London, Distiller, and of Mary, his Wife, was Born on the Fourteenth Day of the sixth month called August One Thousand and Seven Hundred Forty Eight in Wandsworth in Surrey. Present at her Birth: Ann Shepherd, midwife; Katherine Newman; Sarah Harris

Notes:

The National Archives

RG6/329
London & Middlesex: Quarterly Meeting - Births 1747-1775

RG6/329 00047 p. 17 (copy obtained)
Gracechurch Street Births 1749
Charles Gray, Son of John Gray of Watling Street in London, Distiller, and of Mary his Wife, was Born the Sixth Day of October One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Nine in Wandsworth in the County of Surrey. Present at his Birth: Ann Shephard, Midwife, Katherine Newman, Jane Vaughan

Not mentioned in Abraham Gray's will so presumably dead by 1789.

Notes:

The National Archives
RG6/329
London & Middlesex: Quarterly Meeting - Births 1747-1775
RG6/329 00070 p. 40 (copy obtained)
Gracechurch Street Births 1751
Arthur Gray Son of John Gray Distiller and of Mary his Wife was Born on the [Fif]teenth Day of October One Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty One in Watling Street in the Parish called St Augustin's, London. Present at his Birth: Eliz. Child, Midwife, Katherine Newman, Frances King

Left the Friends when he was baptised in 1762 but recurring records of births and deaths of his children in Friends' records. Mentioned in 1789 -1794 will of Abraham Gray, his uncle but legacy revoked in codicil in favour of his wife.

Arthur married Susanna on Yes, date unknown. Susanna was born about 1747; died on 3 Dec 1806 in Newington Butts, Surrey, England; was buried on 7 Dec 1806 in Bunhill Fields, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

RG6/329
London & Middlesex: Quarterly Meeting - Births 1747-1775

RG6/329 00107 p. 77 (copy obtained)
Gracechurch Street Births 1754
Henrietta Gray Daughter of John Gray of Watling Street, Distiller, and of Mary his Wife was Born on the Twenty-Third Day of the Fifth Month called May, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Four at Watling Street in the Parish called St Augustine in London. Present at her Birth: Eliz. Child, Midwife, Frances King, Elizabeth [T]omson

Notes:

Died aged 18.

Notes:

RG6/975 00054 p.30 (copy obtained)
Burial Note: To Mary Harper, Grave-Maker. The 14th Day of the Fifth Month 1776.
Make a Grave on or before next Fifth Day, in Friends Burying Ground, at or near Wandsworth in Surrey, and therein lie the Body of Edward Whitehead Gray, Son of Newman, and Jane Gray of the Parish of St Clement Danes so called, in the City of London, a Member of the Monthly Meeting, aged about Six Months, who died the Eleventh Day of the aforesaid Month, called May, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Six of Convulsions, according to the Report of Two Common Searchers, who viewed the said Body. (Signed) Wm Hayhurst. The Body abovementioned was buried the Sixteenth Day of the Fifth Month, called May 1776. Witness Mary Harper, Grave-Maker.

(Research):The National Archives

RG6/329
London & Middlesex: Quarterly Meeting - Births 1747-1775
RG9/329 00436 p. 513 (copy obtained)
Westminster Births 1775
Edward Whitehead Gray Son of Newman and Jane Gray was Born on the Thirteenth Day of the Eleventh Month called November One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Five in the Strand, in the Parish of St Clement Danes so called, Middx. Present at his Birth: Ann Jane Brook late Douglas, Midwife, Mary Monk, Isabella Wilkinson Nurse

Notes:

RG6/966 ff 00184 p.152 (copy obtained)
On the Twentieth Day of the Sixth Month, called June, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Nine was Born in Cross Keys Court, Little Britain in the Parish of St Botolph Aldersgate so called in the City of London unto Newman Gray, Vintner, and Jane his Wife, a Daughter who was named Hannah. Present at the said Birth: Ann Jane Brooke late Douglas (Midwife), Mary Margets (Nurse)

Entered Ackworth School, a Quaker school, in Yorkshire in 1788 ( email from Michael Hargreaves March 2006). Left in 1791.

Parish record of her marriage to John Shaw shows one witness called Jos Wilkinson.

Died in her daughter's house in the Eastern Cape ( Elizabeth Brook born Shaw).Only surviving child according to father's will of 1809.

Left a long and useful account of husband's occupation in his death notice of 1846 which shows the family arrived in 1821, most likely as paying passengers.

Government Gazette
1821/05/26

802
Waterloo
English Brig
David LYON
Britain
Portsmouth
1821/02/11
Table Bay
1821/05/24
Passengers:


John DEMPSTER Esq - Medical Staff, H PUGH Esq - solicitor, Lieut HAKEWILL HP
60th Reg, Mr RICHARDS - Druggist, Mr MULLIGHAN - merchant, Mr PROBART -
merchant, Mrs SAUNDERS with 4 children and 2 servants, Mrs SHAW and 6
children, Mrs PROBART and child, Mr PENUSCH - french cook for BONAPARTE, Mr
CHANDELINE - french cook for BONAPARTE, Mr & Mrs ARNOLD, Mr JENKINS, Mr
ROGERS, Mr & Mrs MARSH, Mr J ROGERS, Mr H SHERMAN, Mr & Mrs BROWN and 4
children, J SINGEN with wife and 5 children, J DENTON with wife and 7
children, W SUTTON with wife and 7 children

Hannah married John Shaw on 10 Jun 1797 in Old Church, Saint Pancras, London, England. John (son of Thomas Shaw and Isabella) was born about 1772 in Brough, Westmorland, England; died on 11 Jan 1846 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

RG6/966 ff 00050 p. 36 (copy obtained)
On the Fifth Day of the Eleventh Month, called November, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Six, was born in the Strand in the Parish of St Clement Danes, so called, in the County of Middx, unto Newman Gray and Jane his Wife, a Son who was named Edward. Present at said Birth: Ann Jane Brooke late Douglas (Midwife), Bridget Gray (Nurse)

Presumably the first Edward died before this one was born.

Death record in Friends Library say he died aged four.

Notes:

RG6/971 00040 p.20 (copy obtained)
On the Seventeenth Day of the Fourth Month, called April, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty One, was born in Clements Lane in the Parish of St Clement's Eastcheap so called in the City of London unto Newman Gray and Jane, his Wife, a Daughter, who was named Elizabeth. Present at the said Birth: Sarah Smith (Midwife), Sarah Rudd (Nurse)