William James GRAY
Ida Mary ROBERTS

Husband: William James GRAY
Birth: 14 Feb 1907, Dromore, County Down, Northern Ireland
Immigration:  16 Nov 1925, Ellis Island, Port of New York, New York
Death:  (obituary) 23 Mar 1996, Lake Station, Lake Co., Indiana     
Burial:  26 Mar 1996, Ridgelawn Memorial Cemetery, Gary, Lake Co., Indiana     (pic)
Father: Samuel GRAY
Mother: Charlotte Ann MCGRADY

Marriage:       1930, Lake Co., Indiana

Wife:  Ida Mary ROBERTS
Birth:  1907, Iron Mountain, Dickinson Co., Michigan
Death:  (obituary) 28 Jan 1950, Merrillville, Lake Co., Indiana
Burial:  Jan 1950, Ridgelawn Memorial Cemetery, Gary, Lake Co., Indiana      (pic)
Father:  Fred ROBERTS
Mother:  Ida Mary POLLARD

Children:
1. Charlotte GRAY, b: 28 Oct 1930, Gary, Lake Co., Indiana
2. Ronald D. GRAY, b: 23 Feb 1933, Gary, Lake Co., Indiana
                              d: (obituary) 7 Feb 1970, Valparaiso, Porter Co., Indiana       
                           bur: Ridgelawn Memorial Cemetery, Gary, Lake Co., Indiana      (pic)
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Notes:
   Willie was enrolled in the Dromara Public Elementary School on the 1st of February, 1921.  The records show he was born February 14, 1906, and that he previously attended the Roden Street School in Belfast, Northern Ireland.  They also indicate that he was of Presbyterian denomination from Dromara and that his father was a labourer.  He attended there until May 20, 1922 and left with the reason of  "gone to an office".

   Willie didn't immigrate to the U.S. at the same time as either his father or, later, with his mother and the rest of his brothers and sister, but, instead, came over alone in 1925.  Per the Passenger Manifest and Passenger Record of the S.S. Baltic, Ellis Island Foundation, New York, he left Liverpool, England on November 7, 1925 and arrived at Ellis Island, New York on November 16, 1925. 

1940 Federal Census Data (T626_1064, Page 326A), Hobart Ward 1, Lake Co., Indiana,
                                                                                      Enumeration District: 45-16, Enumeration Date: 11-Apr-1940, Family #238

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Sources:
1) Husband - Education: Dromara School Records, Male Register, 1887-1924
2) Husband - Immigration: Ellis Island Foundation, Passage Manifests, 1925