The families of George Gray and Ann Locke ancestors had lived on the Isle of Wight for generations. George Gray’s family were largely famers and agricultural workers and the Lock family were involved in some agricultural work but the men moved into trades like stonemasonry and building.
Isle of Wight – Gray and Lock Families
The Gray Family – Isle of Wight
The story of the Gray family begins on the Isle of Wight in England where they have a lineage back to at least 1720. The focus on the island where George Gray and Ann Lock…
Children of James Gray & Sarah Cheek
James Gray married Sarah Cheek were married on the 18th December 1813 and they had eight children; 1. James Gray : 1814 – 1852 James and Sarah Gray’s eldest son and brother to George James…
Maurice Lock & Ann White – Family
In telling the full story of George Gray and his family in New South Wales we also need to look at the family of his first wife Ann Lock. Both were raised on the Isle…
Children of Maurice Lock & Ann White
Maurice and Ann Lock had thirteen children from 1815 – 1841 which was essentially the span of the time they spent together in their marriage. Most of the children remained on or near the Isle…
Edmund Bull & Frances Lock
Isle of Wight Edmund Bull’s Parents : Edward and Grace Bull Edward Bull’a family stretches back generations specifically living in the Arreton region of the Isle of Wight. In a previous chapter of the Gray…
George Gray and Ann Lock
George Gray and Ann Lock The 1841 Census lists George Gray as the head of the household, aged 20 years (his baptismal record indicated he would have been 23 years but these records can be…
Assisted Immigrants via ‘Thomas Arbuthnot’
The Gray family set off for Australia as assisted immigrants on the ‘Thomas Arbuthnot’ leaving London 22 Sept 1848 and Plymouth 3 Oct 1848. George Gray was 31 years of age (Ann was 27yrs) and…
Arrival in New South Wales
Arrival in Sydney Cove The ‘Thomas Arbuthnot’ arrived in Sydney on the 17th January 1849 with a family bereaved and depleted. Sarah Ann was 7 years of age, Maurice 5 years and George Abner 2…
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George Gray - Stonemason & Builder 