Mary Ann Neal
- Born: 1883 759
- Marriage (1): Harold P. Bray in 1909 in Canterbury, Sydney, NSW Australia
Research Notes:
Marilyn Hughes notes:
My grandmother Ethel May (Neal) Brown was the daughter of Peter Brown and Mary Ann Neal (known as Brown as it appears to have been a 'defacto' relationship) but nee Garment.
However there appears to be some 'connection' as an earlier daughter Mary Ann Neal born in 1883 (and therefore sister of Ethel May?) married Harold P Bray. It is difficult to get to the bottom of it. Because of the conventions of the day perhaps, this Mary Ann Neal has her father listed as just 'Neal' in ancestry but it appears that Peter Brown and Mary Ann Neal (nee Garment b.1859) may have been living together then. There are also private documents referring to a divorce petition for Neal v Neal connected to Peter Brown .
It's intriguing isn't it. I spent ages last night wondering if it was in fact the same person but the parents I think rule it out and I was always told that the name of my grandmother's father was Peter Brown and they lived in Bathurst.
Noted events in her life were:
• connection. 759 Harold P. Bray (1885) married Mary Ann Neal
His father was Thomas Bray (1862)
His father was Samuel Bray (1814) & he also had John Bray (1845)
He had Samuel Bray (1880)
He had Milton Bray (1910) who married Joan Brown (1916)
Her father was Ernest Brown (1880)
His father was Stephen Brown (1854) & he also had Amy Brown (1879)
She had Elva Brown (1915) who married Colin Southwell (1913)
Her father was Horace Southwell (1881) who married Rebecca Smith (1879)
Her father was Ellis Smith (1836) who married Jane Southwell (1859)
Her father was Thomas Southwell (1813) & he also had Elizabeth Southwell (1861) who married David Boon (1861)
They had Gladys Boon (1891) who married Arthur Firkin (1897)
His father was Caleb Firkin (1863) & he also had Caleb Firkin (1892) who married Laura Bray (1893)
Her father was Thomas Bray (1870)
His father was Thomas Alfred Bray (1848)
His father was Thomas Bray (1821) & he also had Arthur Augustus Bray (18690
He had Albert Alan Bray (1896)
He had Robert Alfred Bray (1920)
He had Robert Arthur Bray (1947) who married me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)
Mary married Harold P. Bray, son of Thomas Chapman Pearse Bray and Harriett E. Macpherson, in 1909 in Canterbury, Sydney, NSW Australia. (Harold P. Bray was born in 1885.)
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