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Susan Ella (Lal) GREY (1893 - )
opera soprano
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Susan Ella (Lal) GREY (1893 - )

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Stephen Grant MACKAY
 Thomas William GREY (1863 - 1933) William GREY (1825 - 1884) John GREY (1794 - 1873)
Dorothy WALTON (1802 - 1882)
Jane WILLIS (1833 - 1908) William WILLIS (1798 - 1880)
Mary (WILLIS) (1803 - 1867)
Harriett Harriet Welbourne Welburn BARTLE (1860 - 1933) Thomas BARTLE (1819 - 1873) Francis BARTLE
Mary (BARTLE)
Mary WELBOURNE (1821 - 1904) George WELBOURNE
Mary LEIGHTON
Susan Ella (Lal) GREY
Susan Ella (Lal) GREY
Susan Ella (Lal) GREY Susan Ella (Lal) GREY
b. abt Mar 1893 at Tynemouth, Northumberland, England
m. 20 Dec 1928 Stephen Grant MACKAY at Tynemouth, Northumberland, England
Parents:
Thomas William GREY (1863 - 1933)
Harriett Harriet Welbourne Welburn BARTLE (1860 - 1933)
Siblings (4):
Thomas William GREY (1887 - )
Mary Isabella (Bella) GREY (1889 - )
Edith GREY (1898 - )
Muriel Welbourn GREY (1904 - 1989)
Events in Susan Ella (Lal) GREY (1893 - )'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
abt Mar 1893 Susan Ella (Lal) GREY was born Tynemouth, Northumberland, England Free BMD Mar 1893 10b 230
1901 8 Census Tynemouth, Northumberland, England Gray
1911 18 Census Tynemouth, Northumberland, England
20 Dec 1928 35 Married Stephen Grant MACKAY Tynemouth, Northumberland, England FreeBMD Dec 1928 10b 318 18
abt Mar 1933 40 Death of father Thomas William GREY (aged 70) Tynemouth, Northumberland, England FreeBMD Mar 1933 10b 359
abt Dec 1933 40 Death of mother Harriett Harriet Welbourne Welburn BARTLE (aged 73) Tynemouth, Northumberland, England Free BMD Dec 1933 10b 275
Personal Notes:
Susan Ella (Auntie Lal) stayed at home until she married. She would help her mother at home. Harriet would have people to stay mainly during the summer months when they would come down to the coast for summer holidays. She did have a permanent resident called Mrs. Bolt, and when they moved over the road to the other side of Hotspur Street, she moved with them. Auntie Lal married Stephen Grant McKay on December 20th, 1928 at St George's Church, Cullercoats. Her husband was a widower; he had been married previously to Jean Hunter in 1924. Sadly she died in childbirth. They lived at 31, Preston Road, North Shields where Stephen had his dental practice. He was a qualified Dental Surgeon. They did not have any children but Ella did sadly suffer 2 miscarriages.

Stephen was not very tall and when he treated his patients at his surgery, he had to stand on a stool. He called the stool his shame.

Auntie Lal was a keen member of Tynemouth Operatic Society and was a soprano with letters after her name, A L R C M. Whenever there was a show, Dorothy and Jean would always get tickets for the first night performance off Auntie Lal. She always had a good role in the performances and her name would be on the billboards outside the theatre. After her marriage she would still be named as Madame Edith Grey Lal was a member ofTynemouth Golf Club, and received a medal in a competition.
The Tynemouth Union Workhouse was just over the road form where they lived.
Auntie Lal recalled when a siren would go at about 120'clock. The gates to the
workhouse would open and men would run into the street looking for tab ends. The workhouse was later Preston Hospital. David and Kevin were born there.
Source References:
18. Type: E-mail Message, Abbr: e-mails general pool, Title: e-mails general pool
- Reference = Christine Grey 8 Nov 2011 (Marriage)
This public tree has about 60,100 people. Every person in the tree is related by birth or marriage to at least one other person in the tree - no strays. The people in the tree come mainly from four projects.
  1. My family tree. The original project begun about 1998. ID numbers less than about 6,000
  2. Canberra and Queanbeyan Pioneers. The next 30,000 begun about 2004. Sourced almost entirely from HAGSOC's excellent 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan'. The project began when I decided to add siblings, spouses and parents for a relation with an entry in the Register. 12 years work.
  3. Wagga Pioneers. I moved to Wagga and thought I would extend the Queanbeyan project by adding people from Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society's 'Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District'. About 10,300 people added over about a year.
  4. Tumut Valley Pioneers. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, I decided to extend the above projects by adding pioneers of the Tumut Valley. Initial sources were Snowden's 'Pioneers of the Tumut Valley' and 'Relict of ... Lives of Pioneering Women of Tumut and District'. Excellent references published by Tumut Family History Group. I've also added material from newspapers of the time - especially, death records, obituaries and weddings from 'Tumut and Adelong Times'. This project is in its early stage and might take a few years. I plan to extend to the upper Monaro (Adaminaby, Kiandra, Cooma, Jindabyne).
I upload new information to this website about every 3 months. My motivation for these projects is to provide public information for people seeking to trace ancestors and what became of them. Much of the information I provide can be difficult to find.
If you find errors - anything incorrect (dates, places, wrong parents, wrong children), and you have evidence, I would love to fix them. Or, if you have information that would extend my projects, do not hestiate to contact me on the email link below. I do not publish information on living people - which means I'm not much interested in people born after about 1920, and I usually distrust material from before about 1770 without extremely good sources.
g.bell@bigpond.net.au
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Geoff Bell, September 2020
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