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Papers relating to the Gray family of York including geneological information, legal papers, accounts, correpondence as well as extensive diaries and travel journals. Also includes some further records relating to the Cawood family.

Papers relating to the family history of the Gray family including Robert Gray, William Gray and Johnathan Gray. Includes legal documents, letters, notes and pedigrees which trace the history of the family including those who married into the family.

Article of Agreement for William Gray's appointment as Keeper of the Seal of the Sheriff's office in York. Also includes indenture of Johnathan Gray's appointment as Undersheriff of York.

Account books of William Gray and Faith Gray including household and personal accounting information.

Correspondence of various Gray family memebrs including William Gray Senior and Junior, Johnathan Gray and Mary Gray. Covers a wide variety of personal, financial and religious subjects.

This series currently comprises family newspapers only.

Various letters and notes relating to the Gray family including receipt for donation (of £1,000) to the Exchequer from the Stamp Office, York, signed N. Vansittart, letters to William Gray, junior, as a child from his aunts, Lucy and Margaret, and letter of condolence on the death of Jonathan Gray. Also includes a note made by Edwin Gray of an engraving by Bewick at Gray's Court.

Press cuttings and correspondence to Mrs Edwin Gray about her book 'Papers and Diaries of a York Family', 1927-32, incl. a letter from Mrs Sidney Webb.

Includes letters from Faith Gray, William Gray, Elizabeth Gray, Ann Gray, Lucy Gray, Jane Gray and Johnathan Gray. Letters largely cover personal family matters and local news.

Letters between friends William Gray and George Tennyson, Grandfather of the poet.

Letter and notes relating to Brafferton Hall and College in Virginia, United States of America.

Various letters and poems of the Gray family. Includes letters of dispute, poems and notes relating to religious texts.

Invitation to William Gray, to a dinner at York Guildhall to meet Prince Albert and the Lord Mayor of London, (on ornamental gilt card).

Diaries of Faith Gray and of William Gray during the later years of his life. Also includes notes by William Gray recollecting his youth and reflecting on Faith's religious state in the last few days of her life.

Journals & descriptions of tours by William Gray , Jonathan Gray and Margaret Gray to various national and international locations.

Various manuscript and typescript sermons and religious notes by various members of the Gray family. Includes notes on the death of Lucy Gray.

An account of the illness and last hours of Lucy Gray, Jan 1813, by her brother Edmund Gray including copies of relative's letters. Also includes a silhouette of Lucy Gray as a frontispiece. Pages 39-70 are an account of the illness and death of Margaret Hey, nee Gray, by her husband the Rev. Samuel Hey, Jan 1826.

Various published material relating to and collected by the Gray family including memoirs, notes and press cuttings.

A group of papers relating to the Smith family of Cawood, possible brought to Gray's Court by Nicholas Smith Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery, who married Faith Gray's first cousin Elizabeth daughter of Sir Edmund Anderson, Bart.