Robert Gardner Gray

  General Notes:

James Grey was his father who was a master confectioner and lived in Rutherglen Glasgow. James Grey married Mary on 18/11/1853 in Rutherglen, Glasgow, Scotland.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Labourer. He was also a merchant seaman who legend has it that he jumped ship in Sydney. We do know that he came to Sydney in his 19 and 20's. He arrived on 3 Aug 1889 on the Cailock which sailed from Dunedin. He also arrived in Sydney on 15th March 1890 on the Natuna which had sailed from Glasgow. Maybe it was on a third trip that he jumped ship?

• fact. family search IGI Batch c119201 6035516 Register Births, Marriages & Deaths Scotland

• source. & Shirley Matthews

• emigrated: crew from Adelaide, 10 Aug 1885, Sydney, NSW Australia. On the Nardoo

• Resided, 1935, 3 Thomas St, Balmain, Sydney, NSW Australia.

Robert married Margaret Peel (Maggie) Morrison, daughter of Hugh Morrison and Eliza Peel, on 14 Jan 1893 in 3 Macquarie Terrace Balmain, Sydney NSW Australia. (Margaret Peel (Maggie) Morrison was born on 21 Feb 1868 in 181 Agnes St, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland UK, christened in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland UK, died in Mar 1919 in Balmain, Sydney, NSW Australia and was buried in Church of England Section, Field Of Mars Cemetery, Sydney, NSW Australia Nos 333-334 Section A.)