Ancestry of
Marguerite Swann

(1909–1982)

Mary Clay

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Marguerite Swann — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 25 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Clay 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Ann Savage   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Sep 1790 
  • Birth Location:
  • Savannah, Chatham, Georgia 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Nov 1867 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  • 18 Nov 1867 
  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • William Rufus Gray
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Oct 1809 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newark, Essex, New Jersey 
  • Children:
  
  

  William Gray (Ahnentafel No:12 )

  Francis Henry Gray

  Frederic Gray

  Ellen Gray

  • Notes: 

  • Sources disagree on whether Mary Clay's birth location was Savannah, Georgia or Princeton, New Jersey.

• Sources for Mary Clay

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A047760.
  • ² Federal Census, MA, Suffolk County, 1860, Boston Ward 6, p. 7, Image 7 of 291.
  • ³ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 15603, Membership application for Katharine Cunningham (Gray) Bingham.
  • ⁴ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 22397, Membership application for Elizabeth (Gray) Parker.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/24/2020).
  • ⁶ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, Undertaker's return and physician's death certificate for son William Gray.
  • ⁷ Massachusetts, U.S., Death Records, 1841-1915, Death record for son Frederic Gray.
  • ⁸ Massachusetts, U.S., Death Records, 1841-1915, Death record for son William Gray.
  • ⁹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Boston, Vol. 204, p. 153, Death record for Mary (Clay) Gray.
  • ¹⁰ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Boston, Vol. 429, p. 65, Death record for son William Gray.
  • ¹¹ Mount Auburn Cemetery: Burial Search, Cemetery record for Mary Gray, (accessed 12/18/2020).
  • ¹² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1931, Vol. 85, p. 330.
  • ¹³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1913, Vol. 67, p. 321.
  • ¹⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1851, Vol. 5, p. 56.
  • ¹⁵ New Jersey Marriages, 1678-1985, Marriage record for William Rufus Gray and Mary Clay.
  • ¹⁶ New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949, Death record for daughter Ellen Gray.
  • ¹⁷ Bulloch, Joseph Gaston Baillie, M.D., A History and Genealogy of the Habersham Family, Columbia, South Carolina: The R.L. Bryan Company (1901), 44.
  • ¹⁸ Cumming, Montgomery, Table of the descendants of Joseph Clay of Savannah, Ga., 1741 to 1804, Washington, D.C.: n. p. (1897), Film #007958261, Item 5.
  • ¹⁹ Greeley, George Hiram, Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley Family, Boston, Massachusetts: Frank Wood, Printer (1905), 450.
  • ²⁰ Park, Lawrence, Major Thomas Savage of Boston and His Descendants, Boston: Press of David Clapp and Son (1914), 32.
  • ²¹ Raymond, Marcius Denison, Gray Genealogy, Being a Genealogical Record and History of the Descendants of John Gray, of Beverly, Mass., and Also ..., Tarrytown, New York: M. D. Raymond (1887), 272.
  • ²² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 109.