William Ernest Gray

Possible Death record for William Ernest Gray, born c.1864 in South Africa - died 27 Dec. 1947 in Gwelo General Hospital, Rhodesia. He lived at 3 Williams Flats, Gwelo. Source: FamilySearch.org; Zimbabwe, Death notices, 1904-1976; Gwelo; Death Notices 1947, Vol. 87; Image No.: 205.

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William Ernest Gray was the informant for the Civil Death Record of his wife, Anna Susanna Doubell, in 1910. (Source: FamilySearch.org, "South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Deaths, 1895-1972", 1910 : Uitenhage, Image No.: 422)

William Ernest Gray also appears to be named, as W.E. Gray, as the husband of Anna's sister, Isabella Magdalena Susanna Doubell, who died in 1922. (Source: FamilySearch.org, "South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Deaths, 1895-1972", 1922 : Uitenhage, Image No.: 480)

William Ernest Gray appears to have married a third Doubell woman, Maria Dorothea Smuts Doubell (1882 - 1960).

A William 'Edward' Gray appears to have stood as witness in 1902 for his wife (Anna Susanna Gray)'s sister (Isabella Magdalena Doubell)'s possibly illegitimate child (Magdalena Elizabeth Doubell) by a Patrick Lynch The sisters' mother (Carolina Elizabeth Doubell stood as 'doop moeder'. William went on to marry the second sister after the first sister's death in 1910, but one wonders what happened to the child, who is not mentioned at Isabella's death in 1922. [Sharon April 2015]

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William Ernest GRAY m. Ann Susan DOUBELL

b1 Godfrey Ernest b. 15.8.1892 bapt. Uitenhage 2.10.1893

Source: Suid-Afrikaanse geslagregisters