Search Results - Harringay online2024-03-28T17:05:34Zhttps://harringayonline.com/group/historyofharringay/forum/topic/search?q=gray&feed=yes&xn_auth=noWhen Gray's family cleared out the attic......tag:harringayonline.com,2010-05-30:844301:Topic:1540842010-05-30T15:16:57.602ZHughhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/hjuk
Attached is a transcript of one of the sale adverts placed by Gray's executors for various bits and bobs. (If you'd like to read from the original, use the link at the foot of the page).<br />
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With thanks to Angela.
Attached is a transcript of one of the sale adverts placed by Gray's executors for various bits and bobs. (If you'd like to read from the original, use the link at the foot of the page).<br />
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With thanks to Angela. Edward Gray's Fantastic Art Collectiontag:harringayonline.com,2008-03-23:844301:Topic:325662008-03-23T03:42:56.760ZHughhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/hjuk
The first owner of Harringay House had an art collection that was described by art experts in the early nineteenth century as "one of the finest small collections of pictures in the country".
The first owner of Harringay House had an art collection that was described by art experts in the early nineteenth century as "one of the finest small collections of pictures in the country". Tiny bit of Edward Gray triviatag:harringayonline.com,2010-02-28:844301:Topic:1423952010-02-28T23:11:36.935ZLizhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Liz
Who was Edward Gray? The man who in 1792 built the now long gone Harringay House. <br></br><br></br>You can read about this true Enlightenment gent in Hugh's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Harringay_%281750%E2%80%931880%29#Harringay_House">Wikipedia article</a> and see some of the very fine paintings he owned in <a href="http://www.harringayonline.com/photo/albums/edward-grays-fantastic">this album</a>.<br></br><br></br>Browsing through some old newspapers from 1810 (as you do), I came…
Who was Edward Gray? The man who in 1792 built the now long gone Harringay House. <br/><br/>You can read about this true Enlightenment gent in Hugh's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Harringay_%281750%E2%80%931880%29#Harringay_House">Wikipedia article</a> and see some of the very fine paintings he owned in <a href="http://www.harringayonline.com/photo/albums/edward-grays-fantastic">this album</a>.<br/><br/>Browsing through some old newspapers from 1810 (as you do), I came across a reference to the marriage of his daughter to a chap from Nottinghamshire. Sadly, as was the way then, although we have the name of her father and her husband, Edward Gray's daughter's name is not given. <br/><br/><p style="text-align: left;"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2058551799?profile=original" alt=""/></p>
<br/><span style="font-style: italic;">Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, January 20, 1810</span><br/> House of Edward Gray's only daughter on market for £2.5mtag:harringayonline.com,2010-05-29:844301:Topic:1539492010-05-29T10:32:58.031ZHughhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/hjuk
My current spurt of local history digging is, as usual, taking a number of tangents. I thought I'd share this one because of its relative currency.<br />
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Edward Gray had one daughter, Lydia. I don't have her date of birth but I'm guessing it was around the time he built Harringay House; so 1792ish. She married in 1810 to a John Smith Wright from the Nottingham banking family that ran Wright's Bank.<br />
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Smith Wright moved her up to his house in Leicestershire, Rempstone Hall. Coincidentally Rempstone…
My current spurt of local history digging is, as usual, taking a number of tangents. I thought I'd share this one because of its relative currency.<br />
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Edward Gray had one daughter, Lydia. I don't have her date of birth but I'm guessing it was around the time he built Harringay House; so 1792ish. She married in 1810 to a John Smith Wright from the Nottingham banking family that ran Wright's Bank.<br />
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Smith Wright moved her up to his house in Leicestershire, Rempstone Hall. Coincidentally Rempstone was built in the exact same year as Harringay House. So I'm left wondering how much the two houses shared in their appearance.<br />
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In the twentieth century Rempstone was bought by an order of nuns. It's now up for sale and the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/leicester/hi/people_and_places/religion_and_ethics/newsid_8559000/8559293.stm" target="_blank">BBC have produced this video</a> which will give you an idea of what Lydia's life might have been like.<br />
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Here's <a href="http://www.primelocation.com/uk-property-for-sale/details/id/SPMU_MAR090127/?utm_campaign=rss-propertyalerts&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=propertyalert" target="_blank">Strutt & Parker's page on the house</a> if you've a mind to make a bid!<br />
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Sadly, Lydia didn't have long at the house, after giving birth to three daughters and a son and seeing her son die in his infancy, Lydia passed way a relatively young woman on April 10th 1820. 18th Century Chivalry indeed!tag:harringayonline.com,2010-06-11:844301:Topic:1574232010-06-11T00:25:14.313ZHughhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/hjuk
Checking on a reference to Edward Gray's marriage in a copy of the Gentleman magazine of 1794, I noticed this charming marriage announcement:<br />
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Checking on a reference to Edward Gray's marriage in a copy of the Gentleman magazine of 1794, I noticed this charming marriage announcement:<br />
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2058551948?profile=original" alt=""/></p> Edward Gray's Fantastic Art Collectiontag:harringayonline.com,2008-03-24:844301:Comment:328622008-03-24T20:48:19.476ZLizhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Liz
Just been reading about Edward Gray on Wikipedia. A true Enlightenment gentleman. He sounds fascinating. Anyone written any more on him?
Just been reading about Edward Gray on Wikipedia. A true Enlightenment gentleman. He sounds fascinating. Anyone written any more on him? Edward Gray's Fantastic Art Collectiontag:harringayonline.com,2008-03-23:844301:Comment:325672008-03-23T03:43:22.886ZHughhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/hjuk
See part of the collection in the <a href="http://www.harringayonline.com/photo/album/show?id=844301:Album:32564">Edward Gray's Fantastic Art Collection</a> album.
See part of the collection in the <a href="http://www.harringayonline.com/photo/album/show?id=844301:Album:32564">Edward Gray's Fantastic Art Collection</a> album. Harringay House Hot Housestag:harringayonline.com,2012-03-29:844301:Comment:3519262012-03-29T00:37:04.096ZHughhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/hjuk
<p>I've just found out that in the eighteenth century pineapples were so prized that they cost the equivalent of £5,000 in today's money. Begins to explain why Gray was growing them and underscores what a luxury they were.</p>
<p>I've just found out that in the eighteenth century pineapples were so prized that they cost the equivalent of £5,000 in today's money. Begins to explain why Gray was growing them and underscores what a luxury they were.</p> Edward Gray a Tottenham Boy?tag:harringayonline.com,2010-06-02:844301:Comment:1559532010-06-02T18:25:21.710ZAngelahttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Angela
He did indeed marry twice. He married Rachel Satterthwaite on 6th May 1794.<br />
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His first wife, Lydia, died on 23rd February 1791 and was buried in the Redcliff Pit Friend's burial ground in Bristol. I'll post or email images/documents later.<br />
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I've managed to find this out because you gave me the big clue! You said the Grays were a Quaker family so that reminded me to look at Non-Conformist BMD records which I'd come across earlier this year when researching my mother's family tree.<br />
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I've also…
He did indeed marry twice. He married Rachel Satterthwaite on 6th May 1794.<br />
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His first wife, Lydia, died on 23rd February 1791 and was buried in the Redcliff Pit Friend's burial ground in Bristol. I'll post or email images/documents later.<br />
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I've managed to find this out because you gave me the big clue! You said the Grays were a Quaker family so that reminded me to look at Non-Conformist BMD records which I'd come across earlier this year when researching my mother's family tree.<br />
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I've also come across a Gray, Freeman & co., Linen Drapers of 71 Cornhill, and another address at 147 Leadenhall Street. A close match for Harringay House?tag:harringayonline.com,2011-06-17:844301:Topic:2546262011-06-17T17:18:38.468ZHughhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/hjuk
<p>I came across an <a href="http://www.harringayonline.com/video/southgate-in-colour-in-1951" target="_blank">old video of Southgate</a> in the 1950s today, It contains some footage of a house called Grovelands. The house was built by Walker Gray, younger brother to Edward Gray who built Harringay House. Grovelands was built on a small spur overlooking parkland in 1799. Harringay House was built on a hillside in 1792 overlooking parkland.</p>
<p>Below is a still of Grovelands from the old film…</p>
<p>I came across an <a href="http://www.harringayonline.com/video/southgate-in-colour-in-1951" target="_blank">old video of Southgate</a> in the 1950s today, It contains some footage of a house called Grovelands. The house was built by Walker Gray, younger brother to Edward Gray who built Harringay House. Grovelands was built on a small spur overlooking parkland in 1799. Harringay House was built on a hillside in 1792 overlooking parkland.</p>
<p>Below is a still of Grovelands from the old film and <a href="http://www.harringayonline.com/photo/844301:Photo:5917?context=album&albumId=844301%3AAlbum%3A60758" target="_blank">an excerpt of a map of Harringay</a> showing the shape of Harringay House. Whilst I'm sure the two weren't identical, I think there's good reason to suppose that the two houses shared much in common.</p>
<p>Since no picture has yet been found of Harringay House, it's the best we have.</p>
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