Newsletter 2 1978.pdf - The Grayson Family

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TIG 31ATdE APlD FA,BLY OF GRAYSON
The mne of GRIiYSON is of Anclo-Saxon derivation and is said to mcm
Itson of the reevew, the reeve (old EnzLish grecve) being a bailiff or steriard.
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m ancient Engush an+ap.ly American Cecords the nao appems in the various
spellings of Grayfson, Grefason, Graueson or Graveson, Gravesen, Greveson,
Grceveson, Graysson, Greyson, Grason, Grayshon, Gration, Greason, Greeson,
Oresson, Grasson, Grayson, and others.
Of these, the last is the form most
frequently used in Ametiica in modern times, while several of the otlhers are
still occasionally in evidence. *
In early tines the family was chicfly seated in Yorkshiro, hglanc!,
branches of this family later settled in Lancashire, Lonclon, and various pmts
of Irelancl.
classes,
These Lines were, on the l:fholc, of +,he Dritish landed and merchant
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Among the earliest definite records of the nme in Englantl ~ xtIlosc c of
Johannes Grayf son or John Grayson, Thomas Gi*nyfson, Grcf oson, Tinonas
Graysson, Johannes Graueson of John Graveson, and :lam Grayson, 211 of whom rrcre
livhe in Yorkslfire zbout, tlie year 1379 A.D.
of the name are not, hovrever, conrplete.
The records of these saru bcercrs
Cutilbert Greveson or Grey son,:;probdiLy of Toxjtsif~re, was regis-l;~.-ed
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in 1516 at the University of Cndord. A fcmily of tile nanc VJZS ewly seated ; i
in the Parish of Kirkburton, in Yorl:shiiie.
Of tIds branch, record has been
found concerning ;';illim Graveso-., :;hose vrLl"e died in 1548 and ~ h vias o
married \ in the follovdng yesc to 2 1.Yss lklL, probably that Johanna, wife of
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George Graveson, who died - c,
Johanna Elliston.
1556; 3eorg. ;raveson, who was married in 1557 to
The name of George contiri~led in this line for nzny gcneraiions,
and a C;c~rgo Gr~son, of the sane vicinity, married ]:stha in the latter
eighteenth century. !
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iho w ill of onhi~ohn Graveson, of ',Yarton, was recorded in 1565, mong
the Lamashire vdlls at Riclmond; Joan Grcyson, of LIonlc Fryston, County York,
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