All Signed the Anti-Repeal Petition against the Act of Union as was being pushed by O'Connel in 1848 at Ballsallagh:
William, Isaac, Archibald, James & Thomas
Proni Ref: D / 1071 / A / A / 12
James
Gray
1830 - 1866
Gardener / Police
Ballysallagh
Bangor NI
Robert Gelston rents a freeholdin Ballysallagh Major in 1789. James Gelston and John Gelston are shown as farming Ballysallagh Major during the 1863 Griffiths Valuation. John was the owner of a flax mill in Ballysallagh Major townland in 1836. John died 5 Feb 1888 aged 86; husband of Jenney Robb & Eliza; father of Samuel; buried Knock graveyard. James of Ballysallagh Major ; leased a house & 73 acres from James Thompson & James McNeely in 1863
Emmigrated to Australia around the same time the Oz Gray's father (William) was a watchmaker and Jeweller...
William Gray
c. 1760 -
Ballysallagh
Bangor NI
William leased land from Sir J. Blackwood in 1789, the next name on the list is Robert Gelston... He also leased land from Mr Kerr. In 1790 he also registers an additional freehold... as does Robert Gelston
John Barr
1781 - 1844
Ballysallagh
Bangor NI
Married 1812
Susan Gray
1833 - 1925
Spinster
Ballysallagh Minor
Bangor NI
Leased a house & 7 acres from Lord Clandeboye in 1863 (Griffith's)
Isabella Gray
x Samuel McCune
-
Ballysallagh
Bangor NI
Mary (Ann)
McBride
c. 1800 -
Bangor NI
Mary Ada Gelston Gray
1865 - 1868
Coleraine
Australia
Isaac Gelston Gray
1863 - 1931
Miner / Labourer
x Elizabeth
McKenzie
Coleraine, Australia
lsabella Gelston Gray
1861 - 1863
Coleraine
Australia
Lavannah Rose Gelston Gray
1867 - 1937
x Phillip McShane
x George FB Smith
Coleraine, Aus
Charlotte Jane Gelston Gray
1869 - 1942
x John McCuskey
Coleraine, Aus
Eva Gelston Gray
1874 -
x Thomas H C Lillie
x Henry C Cox
Coleraine, Aus
Frank Gray
1903 -
Beaufort Victoria
Australia
Annie Matilda Gelston Gray
1877 - 1929
x Charles Dolman
Coleraine, Aus
Isaac Gelston Gray departed Liverpool England on the 8th May 1857 on board the Commodore Perry, landed at Melbourne in September. Also on board were Archibald age 25 (? B 1832) I have just found a Archibald died aged 28 in 1862 ( ? B 1834 ) place of birth Down. Could be our Archibald. Can't find a marriage yet so perhaps he hadn't married, Also on board James aged 27 ( ? B 1830). They were all Laboures.
I also have found , not sure if there is a conection or not, Jessie Gray aged 25 ( Born 1838) and a John Gray aged 22 (B 1838) Departed Liverpool in 1860 arrived in Melbourne in August and I am sure it was on the Commodore Perry also.
Stated on Isaac Gelston Grays death cert. he was a Auctioneer. It stated on his son's Archibald death cert. Isaac was a retired Gentleman.
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Archibald James Gelston Gray
1871 - 1928
Coleraine,
Australia
Source:
Roz Harris : rha97267@bigpond.net.au
Also further generations forward
Maude Mary Gelston Gray
1881 -
x Joseph E. Dolman
Coleraine, Aus
Elinor Mellsop
-
New Zealand
X
William Gelston Gray
1913 -
New Zealand
Mary Francis
Gray
1915 - 1953
New Zealand
Patricia Gray
-
New Zealand
Christine Gray
-
New Zealand
Jane Gray
-
New Zealand
Irene Mackie
-
New Zealand
Anne Kelly
-
Glasgow
Michael Gelston Gray
-
New Zealand
Marjkya Georgina Gray
-
Whangarei
New Zealand
Emmajane Gray
-
Wellington
New Zealand
X
X
X
Gwyneth Evans
-
South Africa
Kate Gray
-
South Africa
James Gelston Gray
-
South Africa
Jessica Gray
-
South Africa
Peter Gelston
Gray
-
New Zealand
X
Margaret Hadfield
-
New Zealand
Jeremy Gelston Gray
-
New Zealand
Simon Gelston Gray
-
New Zealand
Elizabeth Anne
Gray
-
Auckland
New Zealand
X
Robert John
Butler
-
Parramatta
NSW Australia
Stephen Gelston
Gray
-
New Zealand
Joanna
Braybrooke Gray
-
New Zealand
Source:
John Gelston Gray Source: johngray@keyloan.com.au
Also further generations forward of non-Grays
Eveline Georgina Myra Davis
1926 - 2007
Auckland
New Zealand
X
Annie Gray
Nurse
c. 1880 -
NZ Tennis Star
New Zealand
Mary Jane Gray
1862 - 1935
Ballygilbert
Bangor NI
The three Gray brothers who came to Melbourne Victoria were not actually labourers. This was an unassisted voyage which does not give detailed information. Everyone of the passenger list is thus recorded as a labourer.
Source:
Heather Cox : heather@ledanet.com.au
Also further generations forward
Catherine Scott
1843 -
Geelong, Victoria
Australia
X
Married: Balmoral Victoria Australia 11 March 1860.
Robert Henry
Gray
-
Victoria
Australia
John Thomas Gray
-
Victoria
Australia
Isaac Gelston
Gray
1902 - 1903
Beaufort Victoria
Australia
Robert William Gray
1895 - 1918
Cambridge
New Zealand
Killed at the Somme I918 and buried at the Bagneux British Cemetery , Gezaincourt in Northern France
There is a will referenced in the indexes (but destroyed) of a Mary Gray Spinster 1828 of Ballysallagh.
Records from 1841;no graveyard; This church is in the townland of Ballygilbert and parish of Bangor, beside the Clandeboye dual carriageway on the Belfast-Bangor road Of all the memorial tablets, only one pre-dates 1900, and this has been copied.
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Ballygilbert Presbyterian Church
2km SW of Crawfordsburn on the Belfast to Bangor road
1789 Freehold Record 1
1789 Freehold Record 2
1790 Freehold Record 1
William Gray
1826 -
Servant
Ballysallagh, Bangor
Sarah Newton
1829 -
Spinster
Newtownards
X
Marriage Records
04 Feb 1851
Newtownards Civil Registrars Office
Robert Barr
1830 - 1895
Farmer
Ballysallagh
X
Marriage Records
21 Feb 1860
Newtownards Civil Registrars Office
Witnesses:
Edward McCourtney & Margaret Robb
John Gray
c. 1795 -
Farmer
Ballysallagh,
Jane Barr
1861 -1887
Ballymagee NI
Mary Rebecca
Barr
1863 - 1937
Ballymagee NI
Thomas Gray
1736 -1816
Ballymagee NI
Ann Unknown
1739 -1811
Ballymagee NI
X
Susan Gray & Robert Barr and their 2 children share the same grave plot in Bangor Abbey as Thomas Gray of Ballymagee. Hence the dotted line.
Hugh Clokey
-
Bangor, NI
Mary Gray
1827 - 1905
Ballysallagh
Bangor NI
X
Marriage Records:
Ballygilbert Presbyterian Church
02-02-1871
Born 12 Jan1864
Baptized Ballygilbert 26 Feb1864
"Obserer" vol 7, issue 169, 1883, page 15
Gray - on December 3, at Papatoitoi, Samuel Gray, son of William Gray, aged 20 years
Baptized 1866 at 1st Holywood Presbyterian Church
Baptized 1861
at 1st Holywood Presbyterian Church
John
Barr
1867 -
Ballymagee NI
Baptized 1867 at 1st Holywood Presbyterian Church
Martha Barr
1874 -
Ballysallagh
Bangor NI
Eliza(beth) Gray
c. 1835 -
Ballybarnes
Newtownards NI
X
James Milliken
Farmer
c. 1835 -
Newtownards NI
Married :
25 Jan 1860
St Marks Church of Ireland
Interesting footnote is that James Milliken is witness to William Gray & Sarah Newton's wedding and Robert Barr is winess to Elizabeth Gray and James Milliken's wedding. Margaret Robb is the witness to Susan Gray and Robert Barr's wedding. James Milliken is also a benefactor in Mary Robb Gray's will. See far right for the Robb Gray wedding which I assume is also tied in.
The Will of John Robb Gray late of Ballyskeagh County Down Farmer who died 28 January 1889 at same place was proved at Belfast by Hugh Ferguson of Cooper's Hill Farmer Alexander H. Moore of High-street Newtownards Merchant both in said County and Mary Robb Gray of Ballyskeagh Widow the Executors.
Forename: John Robb
Surname: Gray
Date Of Death: 28/01/1889
Date Of Grant: 30/03/1917
Effects: Effects £130
Registry: Belfast
Full Abstract: Administration (with the Will) of the Unadministered Estate of John Robb Gray late of Ballysheagh County Down Farmer who died 28 January 1889 granted at Belfast to John Barr Grocer. (Former Grant 25 February 1889)
Marriage of James Milliken, full age, bachelor, farmer, ad. Ballyskeagh, p. Newtownards, f. Hugh Milliken, farmer; to Eliza Gray, full age, spinster, sower, ad. Ballybarnes, p. Newtownards, f. John Gray, farmer. Signed James Milliken and Eliza Gray made her mark.
Witnessed by Robert Barr and James Barr.
Mary Robb Gray
Date Of Death: 16/05/1916 Date Of Grant: 11/09/1916
Effects: Effects £738 5s. 0d. Cause: Cerebral Apoplexy, 13 days
Informant: Anna Milliken (niece), present at death
Full Abstract:
Probate of the Will of Mary Robb Gray late of Ballyskeagh Newtownards County Down Widow who died 16 May 1916 granted at Belfast to John Moore Contractor and Robert Milliken Farmer.
Susan Robb
1799 - 1883
Newtonards NI
X
Thomas Gray
c1834-1885
Ballysallagh
Bangor NI
Alexander Hanna Gray
1847-1907
Ballysallagh
Bangor NI
Amy Emelia
Gray
-
Australia
Married c. 1819
Catherine Unk.
c. 1802 - 1885
Ballyskeagh High,
Newtownards NI
X
Married c. 1819
Griffiths Valuation
Papatoetoe street names
Gray Ave - After Isaac Gray, land owner and member of the then Papatoitoi Road Board 1913-16.This extended into Mangere.
Mangere street names
Gray Avenue: off Massey / Portage. Isaac Gray and family farmed land in the Portage Road area and this gave access to their home
Daughter of Mary Jane Baird and Samuel Cargo
Believed to have had 8 children who outlived her.
Agnes Moore
(nee Thompson)
Farmer
1847 -
Ballysallagh Minor
Bangor NI
X
Married for the second time in 1894 in New Zealand.
Mother was Elizabeth McBride. Father Charles Thompson. Previously widowed in 1888.
Christine Eveline Butler
-
Christchurch
New Zealand
Katherine Emily Butler
-
Christchurch
New Zealand
David Douglas Pollock
-
Auckland
New Zealand
Lynette Dawn Rodda
-
Wallaroo
SA Australia
X
George Douglas
Pollock
-
New Zealand
X
Hillary Sarah Pollock
-
Clayton Vic
Australia
Steven Douglas Pollock
-
Darwin NT
Australia
Mark Thomas Pollock
-
Mt Pleasant SA
Australia
According to the death certificate of William Gelston Gray (1830 - 1918) he had 4 daughters and 5 sons alive in 1918. According to the Death Cert. the sonse would have been born roughly:
1861, 1865, 1872, 1874 & 1877
his daughters would have been born roughly:
1863, 1868, 1879, 1881
Some of these children are possibly accounted for by existing children of his 2nd wife Agnes Moote.
Name: Catherine Gray
Death: August 9, 1885
Where: Church Street, Newtownards
Status: Female, widow
Age: 83 years
Cause: Senile decay
Rank: Farmer’s widow
Informant: Catherine Milliken granddaughter, present at death
Address: Church Street, Newtownards
Register’s District: Newtownards (by David Jamison, registrar, August 15, 1885)
"A Light for the Road" which is a history of the Ballygilbert Presbyterian Church by John and Eleanor McConaghy. In the back is an appendix containing 'Extracts from "Statistics of the Families of the Congregation of Ballygilbert" by Rev. Abraham Liggat' (He was the founder of the church, and served from 1841-1851). Opinion is that he wrote these towards the end of his ministry, as he did not complete the whole congregation.
Gray. Wm B.sallagh, farmer, has one sitting in our church. His wife Mary Ann attends. The family are Isabella, Wm., Jas. Archy & Isaac. Isabella is married to Saml McCune. The parents living unhappily the father Wm went off without notice to America, but has returned this year 1850. The son Wm is sometimes at Pub(lic) Wor(ship). Jas is learning to be a gardener at Mr Dunbar's Woburn, near Millisle. [PRONI T/2653/1]
Annie Gray with the New Zealand Tennis Team in 1906 in Wellington.courtesy of Heather Cox - double click photo for full size
James Gray
1851 -
Ballybarnes, Newtownards
b. 5 May (Ballybarnes) & bpt. 1 Jun 1851 at 1st Newtownards Presbyterian Church
John Robb Gray & Mary Robb Gray
Witness to both deaths Annie Moore / Milliken
Annie Moore daughter of Alexander Moore of Ballyskeagh Marries Robert Corry Milliken son of James Milliken Farmer from Tullynagardy in 1903. Witnesses were Hugh Milliken and Margaret Robb.
