My
primary aim
is to compile a database of all known Bray Families in Australia and the UK. This is a "Work In
Progress", check back for updates to your family from time to time as I
work through cemetery transcripts and newspapers. All State BDM's are now included so if your Brays were born,
married or died in Australia before the various state privacy cut off dates,
you should find them here! I welcome your corrections or additions as my aim is
to have this database as complete and accurate as possible. For privacy
reasons, details of living people have been suppressed; however, I may
have more recent family information in my database. This information will only
be passed on to other close family members. Where date of death is
not known a span of 100 years has been enforced. You may find the same person
listed more than once for different life events. This occurs when I have not
been able to fully identify the individual due to a common first name. I
would appreciate being informed when an instance of this is found so that I can
correct it. This database is now begining to be extended by including the British records
such as Census returns so please check this database for your
family.
We have a Y-DNA Surname Project on Family Tree DNA's web site and I encourage
all male Brays who have tested to join this project. I also encourage those Bray
men who have not yet tested to please consider this and join our project. The
more results we have the better opportunity we will have of identifying the
origin of the various Bray families. Information in the USA+Canada database has been
compiled solely from trees supplied to this Y-DNA study so I
present it "as is" and I recomend that you verify the
information before using it.
PLEASE NOTE: Except for my own family lines, this data was mainly compiled from
indexes and lists such as State BDMs and Cemetery Transcripts. Information has
also been supplied by many other researchers and I am very grateful for their
support, their contributions are acknowleged in the list of sources. Thanks
again to all of you. Therefore this information MUST be treated as a guide
only and you should verify all information found here.
The
use of Before or After Event Dates. - I have inserted these dates for all
events where actual dates are not yet known and they are NOT meant to imply
actual dates. This has been done purely to act as a guide for me when
researching as I often have many people with the same name. Where an
approximate date is known from a source I use circa (c).