Person:Mary Gray (141)

Mary Gray was baptised on 20th February 1743 at Heckington in Lincolnshire, daughter of Mary Gray, formerly Whitehead, and her husband John Gray, a farmer.

Mary never married. Her mother died in 1788, and her father died in 1790.

Mary lived to be 73 years old. She died at Heckington on 24th January 1817.

1. ↑ Church of England. Parish Church of Heckington (Lincolnshire). Parish registers, 1559-1968. (Lincoln, England: Lincoln Archives Office, 1993).

   Anno 1742
   Mary Daughter of Jno. Gray Farmer and Mary his Wife Bapt[ised] Feb[ruary] 20 [i.e. 20 Feb 1742/3]

2. ↑ Burials register, in Church of England. Parish Church of Heckington (Lincolnshire). Parish registers, 1559-1968. (Lincoln, England: Lincoln Archives Office, 1993).

   BURIALS in the Parish of Heckington in the County of Lincoln in the Year 1817
   No.	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   110	Mary Gray	Heckington	January 25th	73 years	Henry B. Benson, Curate

3. ↑ Stamford Mercury, in United Kingdom. The British Newspaper Archive
   Page 3, Friday 31 Jan 1817.

   DIED.
   On Friday last, at Heckington, aged 73, Mrs. Mary Gray, spinster; and on Monday, Mr. John Gray, her brother, aged 81. The family are remarkable for longevity - the father and mother of the above persons were married nearly half a century without a death happening in their family.