> I agree with the point Jerry BRYAN is making. Here is how I > understand the family. But I have been told since my John BRAY's line > wasn't Quaker (Jerry Bryan and I are of the same BRAY line) he couldn't > be John BRAY s/o Edward & Sarah MAYNARD BRAY. So we disagree with some. > > I believe that Edward BRAY m. Sarah MAYNARD is the much younger > brother of Henry BRAY that marries Mary "Marie" WILSON. > >The three "candidates" I have seen as the parents for Edward BRAY m. Sarah >MAYNARD are: > >1) Henry BRAY m. Elizabeth JONES (this couple dies in London) > >2) Henry BRAY m. Ann HODGEKINGS (but this Henry is thought to be Scottish >or Irish not English si I feel this one is dismissible) > >3) or the one I lean towards Edward BRAY b. ca 1685 who I feel is the >father of both Edward BRAY m. Sarah MAYNARD and Henry BRAY m. Marie >WILSON. This Edward was in Maryland for sometime before heading on into >Virginia and died a very old man. A man that old could easily have >fathered sons with an age gap similar to Edward & Henry BRAY. I have not dug into my paper trails lately but this Edward BRAY the Elder may be the nephew of the Cardinal BRAY that established the Library system in Maryland, and then returned to serve the Church in London for the remainder of his life. I recall reading a story Edward BRAY at age 16-19 stowed away on a boat claiming his Uncle the Cardinal would pay after hitting the man he was apprentinced to in the head and mistakenly thinking he had killed him he fled to America. Lived to be like 113ish if my memory isn't failing me. >I have looked and cannot disprove my hypothesis. But can't say I have >proven it either. Blast away people, I can take it. Sometimes you have >to risk being wrong to discover what is right :) > >james wall

One part of my puzzle is which family would the two Henrys fit ?if in 1800 Henry :Bray Jr and Susannah Poe who posting bond with Henry Bray Sr are approved as administrator and administrix of estate of William Poe. which family would they from and which family was the person with the last name Pascal connected to ? Patricia Caviness Perkins >