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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Margaret "Peggy" Gray: Birth: 1804 in Unst, SHI, SCT. Death: UNKNOWN

  2. William Gray: Birth: 02 JUN 1808 in Unst, SHI, SCT. Death: 08 MAR 1857 in Unst, SHI, SCT

  3. Elizabeth"Betty" Gray: Birth: 1810 in Unst, SHI, SCT.

  4. Jemina Gray: Birth: AFT 1809.

  5. Janet Gray: Birth: 1814 in Unst, SHI, SCT.


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. David Gray: Birth: 27 JAN 1835 in Unst, SHI, SCT. Death: 30 JAN 1859 in Unst, SHI, SCT


Sources
1. Title:   1851 Scotland Census
Page:   Parish: Unst; ED: 9; Page: 18; Line: 3; Roll: CSSCT1851_3; Year: 1851
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;
2. Title:   1861 Scotland Census
Page:   Parish: Unst; ED: 1; Page: 10; Line: 7; Roll: CSSCT1861_2
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;

Notes
a. Note:   H34
Note:   David Gray was a tacksman for the Mouat's of Belmont and when in Lerwick on business for Thomas Mouat of Belmont was seized by the "Press gang' and succonded to the British navy.
 He was said to be in the battle of Trafalgar. As a result of him being a fine fiddler he was kept below decks because of his entertainmnent to the sailors when they were "off duty"!
 His discharge later was obtained by Thomas Edmondston of Burness Unst and he returned to Shetland.
 David's eldest daughter Margaret(Peggy) married Thomas Nicolson of Houll and one of their sons was William Nicolson L.L.D.of St Peterberg Russia. Elizabeth (Betty) married Magnus Bruce of Clibberswick,Unst and their daughter was a Mrs Helen Filman of Hamilton,Ontario,Canada.
 This information came from Mrs Fillma's letters ,corroborated by Mr John Spence,Albany StreetLerwick who knew David Nicolson and often heard him talk of the battle.
  From Shand's scrapebooks(page 147) in the Shetland archives Lerwick.
 The only Gray mentioned in The Nationasl Archives for the Battle of Trafalgar is a David Gray,born in Edinburgh,Scotland and is listed as Surgeon's 2nd assistant aboard the HMS Achille.


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