Hugh Gray
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In memory of
HUGH GRAY
  farmer Bogside
 who died there 7th Aug 1873
 aged 60 Years.
Also of his daughter
 MARGARET
 who died 11th September 1887 aged 27
Also his wife
 JESSIE WILSON
who died at Doonholm, Girvan
5th September 1908 aged 85 Years.

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FAMILY HISTORY

FIRST GENERATION

1.  Hugh GRAY died in December 1801.   He was buried in Kirkbride Churchyard #23

Monumental Inscription at Kirkbride Churchyard - Erected by JAMES, WILLIAM

 and JOHN GRAY in memory of their parents HUGH GRAY who died December 1801

and JEAN McCONNEL who died April 1810.

Jean McCONNEL died in April 1810.   She was buried in Kirkbride Churchyard #23.  Hugh GRAY and Jean McCONNEL had the following children:

              2                      i.    James GRAY was baptized on December 9, 1763 in Parish of Maybole, Ayrshire. 1

              3                     ii.    Agness GRAY was baptized on April 27, 1767 in Parish of Maybole, Ayrshire. 2  She has reference number Twin.

              4                    iii.    Elizabeth GRAY was baptized on April 27, 1767 in Parish of Maybole, Ayrshire. 3

              5                    iv.    Jean GRAY was baptized on July 3, 1769 in Parish of Maybole, Ayrshire. 4

            +6                     v.    William GRAY.

              7                   vi.    John GRAY

 SECOND GENERATION

6.  William GRAY (Hugh-1)  was baptized on March 11, 1773 in Parish of Maybole, Ayrshire.5  He died on December 19, 1848.  He was a Farmer.  He was buried in Kirkbride Churchyard #22.  

Monumental Inscription at Kirkbride Churchyard - Erected by HUGH GRAY in

memory of his father WILLIAM GRAY late farmer Bogside, Kirkoswald who died

19th December 1848 aged 76.  Also his mother ELIZABETH WILSON who died 11th

 April 1863 aged 84.  Also his brother ROBERT GRAY who died at Melbourne,

Australia 18th February 1852 aged 33.

Elizabeth WILSON (daughter of Robert WILSON and Elizabeth CASKIE)  was baptized on June 17, 1779 in Parish of Stewarton, Ayrshire.6   She died on April 11, 1863 in Balshagrie Farm, Partick.7  She was buried in Kirkbride Churchyard #22.  William GRAY and Elizabeth WILSON had the following children:

            +8                      i.    Hugh GRAY (born about 1812).

              9                     ii.    Robert GRAY was born about 1819.  He died on February 18, 1852 in Melbourne, Australia. 8

            10                    iii.    Margaret GRAY was born on March 8, 1823 in Parish of Kirkoswald, Ayrshire.9

THIRD GENERATION

8.   Hugh GRAY (William-2, Hugh-1) was born about 1812.  He died on August 7, 1873 in Shanter, Kirkoswald, Ayrshire.10  He was a Farmer, Bogside.   He was buried in Kirkbride Churchyard #28. 

Monumental Inscription at Kirkbride Churchyard - In memory of HUGH GRAY

 farmer Bogside who died there 07 Aug 1873 aged 60.  Also of his daughter

MARGARET who died 11th September 1887 aged 27.  Also his wife JESSIE WILSON

 who died at Doonholm, Girvan 5th September 1908 aged 85.

He was married to Janet (Jessie) WILSON (daughter of Charles WILSON and Jane HUTCHISON) on March 11, 1851 in Parish of Kirkoswald, Ayrshire.  Janet (Jessie) WILSON was born on May 8, 1824 in Parish of Dalrymple, Ayrshire. 11  She died on July 5, 1908 in Doonholm, Ailsa Street, Girvan, Ayrshire. 12  She was buried in Kirkbride Churchyard #28.  Hugh GRAY and Janet (Jessie) WILSON had the following children:

            11                      i.    Elizabeth (Eliza) Wilson GRAY was baptized on April 17, 1854 in Parish of Kirkoswald, Ayrshire.

            12                     ii.    William GRAY was born on August 15, 1858 in Parish of Kirkoswald, Ayrshire.   He died after 1908.  He was a Farmer, Shanter.

            13                   iii.    Margaret GRAY was baptized on May 2, 1860 in Parish of Kirkoswald, Ayrshire.   She died on September 11, 1887.  She was buried in Kirkbride Churchyard #28.

            14                    iv.    Hughina GRAY was born on August 8, 1866 in Parish of Kirkoswald, Ayrshire.

            15                     v.    Charles Robert GRAY was born on August 25, 1868 in Parish of Kirkoswald, Ayrshire.

            16                    vi.    David Wilson GRAY was born on December 20, 1870 in Parish of Kirkoswald, Ayrshire.

SOURCES

1.  Old Parish Registers of Maybole PAGE: Fr. 214.

2.  Old Parish Registers of Maybole PAGE: Fr. 234.

3.  Old Parish Registers of Maybole PAGE: Fr. 234.

4.  Old Parish Registers of Maybole PAGE: Fr. 243.

5.  Old Parish Registers of Maybole PAGE: Fr. 259.

6.  Old Parish Registers of Stewarton PAGE: Fr. 310 & 487.

7.  Death Certificate #136 of 1863 at Partick, Lanarkshire.

8.  Memorial on stone #22 in Kirkbride Churchyard.

9.  Old Parish Registers of Kirkoswald PAGE: Fr. 433.

10.  Death Certificate #17 of 1873 at Kirkoswald, Ayrshire.

11.  Old Parish Registers of Dalrymple PAGE: Fr. 307. 12.  Death Certificate #47 of 1908 at Girvan, Ayrshire.