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John GRAY
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John GRAY 2
Notes: It is thought that the Gray family came to Orkney from Central Scotland in the mid-16th Century. By the early 17th Century they were Udallers (traditional landowners) at Cletts and Grimness on the east coast of South Ronaldsay, and in 1649 a William Gray was granted a Charter of Land in Hoxa and Clett. By the early 18th Century the family had moved to Roeberry, a farm which overlooks Widewall Bay on the west coast of South Ronaldsay, and continued to farm there for the next 200 years. John married Isabella KINNAIRD, daughter of James KINNAIRD and Unknown, on 29 Nov 1750 in Sandwick, South Ronaldsay, Orkney.1 (Isabella KINNAIRD was born Of in Burwick, South Ronaldsay, Orkney 4 and died in 1787 3.) |
1 Church Register, South Ronaldsay and Burray OPR, Orkney County RO Mf 29/2.
2 Church Register, South Ronaldsay and Burray OPR, Orkney County RO Mf 29/2 (baptism of son James).
3 Gladys Gray, "Gray Family History" (Unpublished notebook).
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Church Register, South Ronaldsay and Burray OPR, Orkney County RO Mf 29/2 (marriage).
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