'Grey11'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Grey of Backworth, Grey of Hebburn, Grey of Newcastle

                               
William Grey of Hebburn, co. Durham
1. Robert Grey of Hebburn possibly of this generation
  A. Elizabeth Grey
  m. William Thomlinson of Gateside (Gateshead?)
2. James Grey of Newcastle (a 08.1599, "younger son")
  m. (13.04.1587) Eleanor Bewick (dau of Andrew Bewick of Newcastle)
  A. Ralph Grey of Newcastle & Preston (d 30.05.1666)
  m. Barbara Hall (dau of William Hall of Newcastle)
  i. Ralph Grey of Newcastle & Backworth, Sheriff then Mayor of Newcastle (b c1626, bur 07.12.1676)
  m. (1675?) Margaret Bateman (dau of Roger Bateman 'of Blease')
a. Ralph Grey of Newcastle & Backworth (bpt 12.07.1658, bur 23.11.1699, 2nd son)
  b. William Grey of Newcastle & Backworth (bpt 10.11.1659, bur 15.07.1714)
  m. (24.09.1705) Anne Carr (dau of William Carr of Newcastle, widow of Robert Grey of Newcastle, m3. Thomas Holmes)
  (1) Ralph Grey of Backworth (bpt 08.01.1707, d 05.11.1786)
m. Mary Rawsthorn (bur 05.09.1746, dau of William Rawsthorn (Rawstorne) of Newhall)
  (A) Ralph William Grey of Backworth, Sheriff of Northumberland (b 1745-6, d 18.07.1812)
  m. (03.07.1777) Elizabeth Brandling (dau of Charles Brandling of Gosforth)
  (i) Ralph William Grey, last of Backworth (bpt 12.06.1780, d 06.1822) had issue
  m. (18.03.1817) Anne Clarke Jervoise (d 1858, dau of Sir Samuel Clarke Jervoise of Idsworth, Bart, m2. John Abel Smith)
  (ii) Sir Charles Edward Grey, Chief Justice of Bengal, Governor of the Windward Islands then Jamaica (bpt 29.12.1785, d 06.1865, MP) had issue
m. Elizabeth Clarke Jervoise (d 11.1850, dau of Sir Samuel Clarke Jervoise of Idsworth)
  (iii) Elizabeth Mary Grey (bpt 08.06.1778)
  m. (01.08.1805) William Linskill of Tynemouth
  (iv) Mary Eleanor Grey (bpt 03.06.1779)
  m. (14.12.1801) George Payne of Sulby Abbey
  (v) Charlotte Margaret Grey (bpt 15.01.1784)
  m. William Lewis Hughes of Kinmell Park, 1st Viscount Dinorben
  (vi)+ other issue - John (bpt 17.01.188, Lt. Colonel), Henry Rowland (bpt 27.08.1790, dvp), George Francis (bpt 13.02.1794, 06.10.1854, cleric), Matthew Robert (bpt 21.01.1797, d 11.1850), Anne Barbara (bpt 29.10.1781, bur 01.03.1788), Anne Emma (b 04.07.1802, d 04.03.1827)
  (B) Isabella Ann Alice Grey (b 04.02.1742)
  (2)+ other issue - William (b c1608, a 11.1725), Margaret in London (b 06.08.1706, d 05.1758), Ann (b 02.06.1711, d 22.12.1711), Ann (b 03.08.1713, a 1743)
  c.+ other issue - Roger (bur 1655), Richard (bpt 01.121661, d 19.02.1701/2), James (b 1662, a 1666), other sons (d infant), Margaret, Ann, Barbara 9bur 1655)
  ii.+ other issue - Cuthbert (bur 20.09.1596), James, Joshua, Margaret, Eleanor

Main source(s): 'A History of Northumberland' (vol 9, H.H.E. Craster, 1909, 'Grey of Backworth', p41+)
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