Researching Jimmy Gray
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 42755 people with the Gray surname? In that year Gray was ranked number 69 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Jimmy means "Form of JAMES. one who supplants" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Jimmy Gray on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Jimmy Gray and the Gray Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Gray Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Gray family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 62144 people with the Gray surname in the UK? Gray is now ranked number 66 for popularity in the UK. |
Gray Genealogy Databases
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Some Famous People called Jimmy Gray
Jimmy Lee Gray
Jimmy Lee Gray (September 25, 1948 – September 2, 1983) was convicted for the murder of three-year-old Deressa Jean Scales in 1976, after kidnapping and sodomizing her. At the time of this murder, he was free on parole after serving seven years of a twenty-year prison sentence for the murder of his 16-year-old girlfriend, Elda L. Prince in Parker, Arizona.
He was executed in 1983 by the state of Mississippi by gas chamber. He became the first person to be executed in Mississippi since 1976 when the death penalty was reinstated.
Dan Lohwasser, a reporter for United Press International, was one of the observers who witnessed Gray's execution. Lohwasser's account of Gray's death sparked controversy, because of the suffering that Gray exhibited. At the time of Gray's execution, the gas chamber used in Mississippi had a vertical iron bar directly behind the inmate's chair. There was no headrest or strap used to restrain Gray's head. As Gray began breathing in the toxic gas, he started thrashing his head around, striking the iron bar repeatedly before he finally lost consciousness. Officials decided to clear the observation room eight minutes after the gas had been released, because of Gray's injuries. The decision to clear the room was sharply criticized by Dennis Balske, Gray's attorney. "Jimmy Lee Gray died banging his head against a steel pole in the gas chamber while reporters counted his moans (eleven, according to the Associated Press)".
In part because Gray's execution was botched, Mississippi passed legislation making lethal injection the only method of execution for inmates sentenced after July 1, 1984, though three more inmates (Edward Earl Johnson, Connie Evans and Leo Edwards) sentenced before this date were still executed by lethal gas. Mississippi's gas chamber was decommissioned in 1998.
Source: Jimmy Lee Gray, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJimmy Gray (GAA)
Jimmy Gray (born November, 1929 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish former sportsman. He played hurling and Gaelic football with the C. J. Kickhams GAA club until 1955 when he became a founding member of his local club Na Fianna. He was also a member of the Dublin senior inter-county teams in both codes throughout the 1950s and 1960s. He was the goalkeeper on the Dublin senior hurling team that lost to Tipperary in the 1961 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. This was Dublin's last appearance in an All-Ireland Senior Hurling Final.
Gray subsequently served as a referee and as a GAA administrator. He held the position of chairman of the Dublin County Board from 1970 to 1981. As chairman of the Dublin County Board, he was instrumental in the appointment of Kevin Heffernan as manager of the Dublin senior football team in 1973. Gray also served as chairman of the Leinster Council of the GAA from 1990 to 1993. He took charge of the Dublin senior hurling team from 1993 until 1996.
He was declared the Hall of Fame Winner at The Friends of Dublin Hurling Awards Night on Friday 13 November 2009.
On 7 July 2013, he was accorded the honour of presenting the Bob O'Keefe Cup to John McCaffrey, captain of the Dublin senior hurling team that won the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship for the first time since 1961, when Gray was the goalkeeper on the winning Dublin team.
He currently holds the honorary position of President of Dublin GAA.
Source: Jimmy Gray (GAA), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Gray
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