Hi All, My relatives Elizabeth and Captain Granville Spray moved to Cardiff about 1880 from Cornwall. He was a master mariner working from Cardiff and he resided at 20 Conway road Cardiff He had several daughters and 2 sons the boys George goldfinch spray and Albert Spray were dental surgeons. George married Margaret Begg 1895 daughter of captain M J Begg and they lived at 2 Cathedral Rd Cardiff Albert married ? Herbert I think in Swansea The girls were Beatrice Spray married Francis E Rees 1893 Emily Spray married Ernest Barry Davies 1902 Elizabeth Spray married William Matthew 1901 - son of Captain A Matthew May Spray married John Willmot Williams an accountant 1891 Does anyone have any connection to this lot I would be glad to hear from you. Cheers Denis Edwards Sydney, Australia
Denis I don't have any known connection but I notice that Captain Granville Spray got an award for bravery at sea from the German Emporer in 1903! Check out the Welsh newspapers on-line and look at the Weekly Mail for 14 November 1903. There are some other articles relating to Captain Spray, too. Regards David Rowlands Canberra On 18/08/2013, at 5:41 PM, "Denis Edwards" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > > > My relatives Elizabeth and Captain Granville Spray moved to Cardiff about > 1880 from Cornwall. He was a master mariner working from Cardiff and he > resided at 20 Conway road Cardiff > > He had several daughters and 2 sons the boys George goldfinch spray and > Albert Spray were dental surgeons. > > George married Margaret Begg 1895 daughter of captain M J Begg and they > lived at 2 Cathedral Rd Cardiff > > Albert married ? Herbert I think in Swansea > > The girls were > > Beatrice Spray married Francis E Rees 1893 > > Emily Spray married Ernest Barry Davies 1902 > > Elizabeth Spray married William Matthew 1901 - son of Captain A Matthew > > May Spray married John Willmot Williams an accountant 1891 > > > > Does anyone have any connection to this lot I would be glad to hear from > you. > > Cheers > > Denis Edwards > > Sydney, Australia > > -- > > To send to the list send to [email protected] > GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html > - > This site has been prepared to help you use the Glamorgan List > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/ > - > A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ > > - > The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message