John BRAY (1760

John BRAY (1760 - 1797)

soldier

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Thomas BRAY (1792 - ) Elizabeth BRAY (1795 - ) Mary BRAY (1796 - ) John BRAY (1798 - 1883)	John BRAY (1760 - 1797) + Mary DOWNES (1766 - 1827)

b. 1760 at Galway, Ireland

+. Mary DOWNES (1766 - 1827)

d. 04 Oct 1797 at Concord, New South Wales, Australia aged 37

Children (4):

Thomas BRAY (1792 - )

Elizabeth BRAY (1795 - )

Mary BRAY (1796 - )

John BRAY (1798 - 1883)

Grandchildren (10):

Lucy BRAY (1829 - 1856), Joseph Nobbs BRAY (1831 - 1883), Charlotte Squire BRAY (1832 - 1924), John David BRAY (1834 - 1915), Thomas BRAY (1836 - 1884), Joshua BRAY (1838 - 1918), James BRAY (1841 - 1890), Mary BRAY (1842 - 1900), Anne BRAY (1843 - 1933), Alice Sarah BRAY (1845 - 1846)

Events in John BRAY (1760 - 1797)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1760		John BRAY was born	Galway, Ireland		21
26 Jun 1790	30	Immigration	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	per 'Neptune' second fleet	21
1792	32	Birth of son Thomas BRAY	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	V1792215 1A/1792
1795	35	Birth of daughter Elizabeth BRAY	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	V1795406 1A/1795
1796	36	Birth of daughter Mary BRAY	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	V1796543 1A/1796
04 Oct 1797	37	John BRAY died	Concord, New South Wales, Australia	V17971338 2A/1797	21

Personal Notes:

Private NSW Army Corps – arrived on ‘Neptune’ with the Second Fleet .
no evidence of John and Mary's marriage has been found. I assume they were married as John would need to obtain permission from the Army for his wife to accompany him on the voyage.
Enlisted with NSW Army Corps in England on 30 June 1789
John BRAY arrived on the 'Neptune' in Australia with his wife Mary and baby son James. It is believed that John was promoted to Sergeant. Joshua HOLT (his daughter Elizabeth’s father-in-law) referred to John Bray as a Sergeant and that he came from County Galway in Ireland. On 11 November 1794 John was granted thirty acres of land at the ‘Entrance of the Flats’, on the south side of the Port Jackson Harbour in a area later to be called Rhodes. John was discharged from the Corps on 26 November 1794. The first stage of ‘Bray's Farm’ had been built by the turn of the century and was the first house at Concord and later known as ‘Braygrove’. Bray's Road and Bray's Bay were named in honour of the Bray family at Concord. John was still a young man when he passed away at about 37 years of age.

Source References:

2. Type: Book, Abbr: Devon to Downunder, Title: Devon to Downunder, Auth: Bettie Elworthy, Publ: Bookbound, Date: 1997

- Reference = 225 (Name, Notes)

21. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Bray & McGilvery Ancestry, Title: Bray & McGilvery Ancestry, Locn: http://www.bray-mcgilveryfamilies.net/index.php

- Reference = (Immigration)

- Reference = (Name, Notes)

- Reference = id 141 (Birth)

- Reference = id 141 (Death)

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My family tree. The original project begun about 1998. ID numbers less than about 6,000
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.
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.
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).

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