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L. I. Bray

Signed family name
Bray
Signed given name
L. I.
Given address
George St
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Central Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Originally transcribed as LJ Bray

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Lucy Ida Bray was born in Dawlish, Devon, England in 1870 – the daughter of George Edmund Bray, a railway station superintendent, and Lucy Bovey Piller. (See 52 L B Bray)

She emigrated to New Zealand in 1883 on the Ionic with her family and they settled in Dunedin.

Lucy did not marry and she moved to Wellington in the 1900s with her family.

She died on 21 May 1942 and is buried in the Karori Cemetery, Wellington.

Sources

GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk

NZ Yesteryears http://www.yesteryears.co.nz

Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

Wellington City Council https://wellington.govt.nz

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.