Macdonald Dictionary Record: Ernest Gray
Maker
George Ranald Macdonald
Production date
1952-1964
Description
One record, handwritten in ink on rectangular card, with biographical information for Ernest Gray. Written by George Ranald Macdonald for the Macdonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biography project, 1952-1964.
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Marks/Inscriptions: G.368 Hon. E. Gray "generally. In '74 he bought Thats well Farm at the foot of the hills for £627 (£25 par acre J. this had been John Grigg 's farm and had bee bought by Harry Gray at the Grigg and Russell land sale for £12 per ace in His house at Hon Hay was subject to flooding and he s built another house just above the flat an the '0's . This house was burnt down in 1915 and the Gerritt van Asch 's built new hoarse and in 1956 bought the whole of Hon Hay. The Ee t Gray family sailed for Eng. in the Hurunui 2.1.80. They were hisses H.M., E.M. , C.M., and Masters R.H. , and H.W. He followed in a later ship . They were away 2 ') years. They made a late trip to India and went up to the north where Roberts was forming his expediti on to Kandahar . They had a relation there, General Macpherson. who made everything easy for them. They saw bullock trams coming in every day with stores for the troops. Mrs Arthur Barker (M.M.) remembers the young Grays collecting on the old foot bridge across the Avon at Worst er St and jumping in the middle to make the bridge suing. She also remembered the water coming through the Hon Hay brouse diving the '68 flood. There was an earthquake LT. 11.11.72; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
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