'Gray5'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Gray of Cliff

                               
_ Gray of Cliff in Unst, Shetlands
m. Agnes Mowat (d 06.1601
1. Walter Gray of Cliff
  m. Margaret Coutts (d 08.1615)
  A. William Gray of Cliff (d 02.1634)
  m. Sinnevo Schewartsdochter (a 02.1634)
  i. Walter Gray of Cliff
  m. Dorothy Thomasdaughter (dau of Thomas Manson, granddau of Magnus Norsk (minister of Unst))
  a. Walter Gray of Cliff
m. Margaret Smith
  (1) Walter Gray of Cliff
  m. Janet Smith
  (A) Andrew Gray of Cliff (d 1766)
  m. Katherine Hoseason (dau of Hosea Anderson of Aywick, m2. Christopher Stickel)
  (i) Walter Gray of Cliff (b 1759, d 1813)
  m. (05.09.1784) Margaret Ferguson (dau of William Ferguson of Thurso)
  (a) Katherine Hoseason Gray (b 29.09.1794, d 05.12.1870)
  m. Laurence Laurenson (b 29.09.1799, d 11.01.1867)
  (b) Margaret Gray
  m. Andrew Nicolson of Lerwick
  (c)+ other issue - Andrew (b 10.08.1785, to America in 1800), William, Henry, Walter of Batavia (bpt 13.04.1804, had issue), Ann (b 10.07.1786)
  (ii) Janet Gray
m. J. Anderson
  (iii) Osla Gray
  m. Laurence Anderson
  (iv) Margaret Gray
  m. Thomas Mathewson
  b. Robert Gray
  m. Katherine Neven (dau of James Neven (by Janet Edmonston), son of Gilbert of Windhouse)
  (1) Robert Gray
  m1. Grizel Sutherland
  m2. Janet Coutts
  (A) James Gray
  m. Isabel (dau of Magnus Laurenceson of Westerhouse)
  (i)+ issue - Magnus, Janet, Bess, Agnes, Ursilla
  m3. Agnes Smith
  (2) Dorothy Gray
  m. William Bruce
  (3) Janet Gray
  m. Erasmus Nicolson of Houll
  (4) Grizel Gray (d unm)
  ii.+ other issue - Jerome, Agnes, Katherine, Magdalen
  B.+ other issue - Laurence, Katherine, Elspeth

Main source(s):: 'The County Families of the Zetland Islands' by Francis Grant, 1893 ('Gray of Cliff', p98+)
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