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>>>The ancestor line I can trace is not long >>>Robert Ray >>>His son Winfield Thomas Scott Ray >>>His son Lindon Howard Ray >>>His son Timothy Darryl Ray >>>His Daughter Nicole Danielle Ray >>> >>>Do these names sound familiar to anyone? >>NICOLE: I am not related, BUT! >>1880 U.S. CENSUS FROM LATTER DAY SAINTS >>HOUSEHOLD RECORD >> >>RAY, WINFIELD: married/male/white/age 33/born N.Y. >> dry goods buyer/father born N.Y. >> mother born England >>RAY, IDA J.: wife/married/female/white/age 31/keeping >>house >> father born N.Y./mother born CT. >>RAY, IDA F.: daughter/single/female/white/age 2/born >>N.Y. >> parents born N.Y. >>RAY, JOHN A.: brother/single/male/white/age 28/ born >>N.Y. >> Med. Doctor/father born N.Y./mother >>England >>RAY, ANNIE A.: mother/widow/female/white/age 64/ born >>Eng. >> parents born England >>LOWE, MARY: other/single/female/white/ age 22/ born >>Scotland >> servent/father born Scotland/mother >>Scotland >>SOURCE INFORMATION: >>Cenusus Place: Brooklyn, Kings(Brooklyn) New York >City- >> Greater, New York. >>Family History Library Film: 1254844 >>NA Film Number: T9-0844 >>Page Number 261A >>Since this is the only Winfield Ray on the 1880 >>census, do you think this might be your great >>grandfather? >>If so, his father Robert has passed away by 1880. >>Winfield's son Lindon must be born after 1880 since he >>does not appear on the census. >>Perhaps, if you can find the 1870 census, you could >>find the whole family! >>Also, you could post messages on Genealogy.com and >>RootsWeb.com under the Ray name. >>Ciao for now. >>Sandy >sandy: As you can see my last name is ray, to avoid a >lenghty narrative, while researching by family I came >across a family of ray's who originated in mass. in >salem (essex co.) I found a daniel ray transported to >the plymouth colony by the court at newgate, this >would not mean he was a felon, research has reveled at >that period in history, the english courts were very >currupt and a thriving business of kidnapping people >to send to the colonies as indentured servants was >very profitable if you had connections....any way a >salior 19yrs old by the name of daniel ray was >sentenced to transport july 1632 and departed august >1632 for the plymouth colony, he married a bethia >jones, betheia was a small child when she came with >her family in the mayflower and was one of the first >origional people to land at plymouth, this I got from >a thing written by the first govenor who later in his >old age wrote about those people and what became of >them, daniel had a brother simon ray who came over >about 1640 (not sure of the date) daniel and bethia >had 5 children I found and in their line was a robert >ray, you may want to check the daniel ray line out, >hope I helped you...james ray
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