All Discussions Tagged 'Edward Gray' - Harringay online2024-03-29T08:38:14Zhttps://harringayonline.com/group/historyofharringay/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=Edward+Gray&feed=yes&xn_auth=noWhen Gray's family cleared out the attic......tag:harringayonline.com,2010-05-30:844301:Topic:1540842010-05-30T15:16:57.602ZHughhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/hjuk
Attached is a transcript of one of the sale adverts placed by Gray's executors for various bits and bobs. (If you'd like to read from the original, use the link at the foot of the page).<br />
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With thanks to Angela.
Attached is a transcript of one of the sale adverts placed by Gray's executors for various bits and bobs. (If you'd like to read from the original, use the link at the foot of the page).<br />
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With thanks to Angela. Edward Gray a Tottenham Boy?tag:harringayonline.com,2010-05-29:844301:Topic:1540052010-05-29T18:02:04.506ZHughhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/hjuk
Finding out much about Edward Gray is about as easy as coming up with a picture of Harringay House. However I have been able to root out a little about his family.<br />
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It seems he was a local boy. He had one sister, Mary. Their parents were Abraham and Rebecca. Both were devout Quakers by all accounts.<br />
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His father seems to have come of quite humble stock, being one of thirteen children born to John & Mary in Southwark. His father's profession was described as salesman.<br />
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Abraham seems to have…
Finding out much about Edward Gray is about as easy as coming up with a picture of Harringay House. However I have been able to root out a little about his family.<br />
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It seems he was a local boy. He had one sister, Mary. Their parents were Abraham and Rebecca. Both were devout Quakers by all accounts.<br />
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His father seems to have come of quite humble stock, being one of thirteen children born to John & Mary in Southwark. His father's profession was described as salesman.<br />
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Abraham seems to have made his way in the world, however. Apprenticed to a wine merchant and cooper in the City, he ended up running his own business as a wine and brandy merchant at 24 Newgate Street. He's reported to have made his fortune from that business.<br />
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Abraham moved out of Southwark and up to Tottenham High Cross. Though it is not clear at what point he moved out this way or if he and his wife were living in Tottenham when Edward and his sister were born.<br />
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As we know Edward went on to do very well, apparently as a linen draper, though I can find little on him other than about his art collecting and his passion for Harringay House.<br />
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His sister made an excellent marriage into a blue blooded wealthy banking family, the Harford's of Bristol. Of her four sons, her eldest, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Scandrett_Harford" target="_blank">John Scandrett Harford</a>, named after his father, became an abolitionist friend of William Wilberforce and a somewhat accomplished painter. He still found time to carry on in the banking business.<br />
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<i>John Scandrett Harford, Mer de Glace, 1817</i><br />
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Edward's daughter and grandchildren also did well......but more of the another time.<br />
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As for his ma'n'pa, they lived on to a ripe old age for the time; his dad died at 82 in September 1794, two years after Harringay House was built. One month later his mum died at 76.<br />
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They were both buried in the <a href="http://www.winchmorehillquakers.org.uk/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2&Itemid=12" target="_blank">Quaker church in Winchmore Hill</a>. I was passing there the other day so stopped to take a couple of pics of their final resting place. And, what a jolly fine one it is too. Originally built in 1688 and rebuilt in 1790, it's the sort of place you'd want to think of your loved ones resting.<br />
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My current spurt of local history digging is, as usual, taking a number of tangents. I thought I'd share this one because of its relative currency.<br />
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Edward Gray had one daughter, Lydia. I don't have her date of birth but I'm guessing it was around the time he built Harringay House; so 1792ish. She married in 1810 to a John Smith Wright from the Nottingham banking family that ran Wright's Bank.<br />
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Smith Wright moved her up to his house in Leicestershire, Rempstone Hall. Coincidentally Rempstone…
My current spurt of local history digging is, as usual, taking a number of tangents. I thought I'd share this one because of its relative currency.<br />
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Edward Gray had one daughter, Lydia. I don't have her date of birth but I'm guessing it was around the time he built Harringay House; so 1792ish. She married in 1810 to a John Smith Wright from the Nottingham banking family that ran Wright's Bank.<br />
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Smith Wright moved her up to his house in Leicestershire, Rempstone Hall. Coincidentally Rempstone was built in the exact same year as Harringay House. So I'm left wondering how much the two houses shared in their appearance.<br />
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In the twentieth century Rempstone was bought by an order of nuns. It's now up for sale and the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/leicester/hi/people_and_places/religion_and_ethics/newsid_8559000/8559293.stm" target="_blank">BBC have produced this video</a> which will give you an idea of what Lydia's life might have been like.<br />
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Here's <a href="http://www.primelocation.com/uk-property-for-sale/details/id/SPMU_MAR090127/?utm_campaign=rss-propertyalerts&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=propertyalert" target="_blank">Strutt & Parker's page on the house</a> if you've a mind to make a bid!<br />
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Sadly, Lydia didn't have long at the house, after giving birth to three daughters and a son and seeing her son die in his infancy, Lydia passed way a relatively young woman on April 10th 1820.