Lt. Henry (William) Gray
Born: 1824 - 1883. (Jan 30th)
Bangor
Occupation: Bank Manager
Son of James Gray and Sarah. Served in the 28th Lancashire Volunteer Regiment (L.R.V.) 1860 - 1864, when the 28th disappeared he transferred to the 33rd LRV (Alnwick). He appears to have left the regiment later that year. In the army lists the 28th are subtitled the 2nd Manchester and there is no reference to any Irish connection but in the early years of the Volunteer Movement units were changing their names frequently.
Lt. Henry Gray was apparently presented to Queen Victoria for founding the Irish Fusilliers Regiment.
Owner of 2 properties in Bangor Northern Ireland, Number 9 & 9a Gray's Hill, Bangor, possibly also # 11.
He died in Bangor on 30th of Jan 1883 and is buried in Bangor Abbey Church, unnamed but probably in the family plot with parents and other family members. See Belfast News Letter.
Picture taken from Portrait.
Married Sarah Jane McLinton (1830 - 1922) daughter of Samuel McLinton in Moy County Tyrone on the 5th of April 1855. They moved to England shortly afterwards. Sarah's brother Nathaniel (JP) lived with them in the 1871 census.
According to Seyers book, Henry Gray was the 1st to redevelop Gray's Hill from the orignal cottages.
Long ago, at your request, I hunted for Neumunster Terrace
Princetown road Bangor mentioned in a Belfast newslettercutting you had, but with Zero success
Yesterday evening I was reading a book called
HOME FIRES. - Bangor in the Great War.
On page 31 I read "Doctor Harriet Neil, a most patriotic suffragette,
asked the Council in September1917 to kindly alter her address, 2 Neumunster Terrace, Bangor to 2 Princetown Terrace, as she objected to the German name". Princetown Terrace still exists
