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Janet Grey

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Biography

Tentatively identified as Janet Gray nee Sutherland, wife of John Gray. Joint owner with her husband of Roxburgh Castle estate in Manchester, Jamaica, in 1817.

  1. Janet Gray, age 86, of independent means, was living in Cirencester Place, Marylebone, in the census of 1841, born out of county. The will of Janet Gray, formerly of Jamaica but now of Cirencester Place, Middlesex, was written in 1840 and proved in London in 1850. She may be the Janet Gray, age 90, who was buried in Marylebone 17/11/1841.

Sources

  1. 1841 census online; PROB 11/2113/58; Ancestry.com, London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003 [database online].

We are grateful to Jim Brennan for his assistance with compiling this entry.

Further Information

Spouse
John Gray
Will

PROB 11/2113/58 - precis.

Janet Gray formerly of the Island of Jamaica but now of Circencester Place in the county of Middlesex, widow.

First, payment of just debts and particulary the debts of £150 and interest due to Mr WIlliam Keeton and for which I have given him a security, and payment of my funeral and testamentary expenses.

All my real and personal property in Jamica or elsewhere in the colonies or in Britain to be equally divided between Margaret Fergusson of Bath Street, Portman Square, widow and my niece Isabella, wife of James James of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, solicitor for their own use absolutely, subject to the pyament thereout of 1/8th part to Robert Sutherland of London Street, Fitzroy Square Esquire.

James James and my friend Thomas Lunnings Vickery of 25 Lincolns Inn Fields, gentleman, to be executors.

Signed 24/11/1840.

Proved at London 09/05/1850 by Thomas Munnings Vickery, the surviving executor.

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1817 [EA] - → Joint owner
Roxburgh Castle [ Jamaica | Manchester ]

Addresses (1)

Cirencester Place, Marylebone, London, Middlesex, London, England
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