David Gray Senior (1775-1833) and John Gray Senior (1806-1856) and many other members of the family are buried in the Old Kirkyard Peterhead. David Gray was laid to rest on the 20th of July 1833, having drowned while fishing in Peterhead Bay. John Gray was born in South Shields and died of cardiac dropsy on board his ship the Eclipse in the Davis Strait at 9.30 am on August 11th 1856. He was buried in the family grave on the 15th of September.

 

©Martyn Gorman The Gray family grave, Old Kirkyard, Peterhead, June 2002

Also buried in the Gray lair is a 13 year old Inuit boy, Jacob Johannes. A Inuit woman known only as Mary was buried at the same time in a nearby, unmarked grave. The Inuit family had arrived in Peterhead in 1825, as guests of the Grays. Unfortunately they had little resistance to the diseases that were so rampant in Britain at the time and Jacob and Mary both died in March 1826.

David Gray Junior's first wife Isabella Gamack Law (1829-1858) was buried in the old lair but David (1828-1896) and his second wife Amelia Walker (1841-1937) are buried in the Langdale Road cemetery, Peterhead.

 

©Martyn Gorman The David Gray family grave, Landale Street Cemetery, Peterhead, June 2002