RAY Family
23 September 1894 – 2 June 1962
25 June 1892 – 8 August 1980
Origin Grays, Essex, England
Accompanying Family Albert Edward Ray (Ted), Nellie Ray, Albert Edward Ray born 1913 (Albert), Emily Grace Ray born 1915, Sylvia Joyce Ray born 1925
First settled in Mascot, Sydney, NSW
Original Occupation Gardener, caretaker
Occupation in Australia Nurseryman, factory worker
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Departure Port London
Arrival Year 1929
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Joined Ted's single brothers, Fred and Les at a Sydney nursery. Depression closed nursery. Ted did relief work at Banksmeadow until he set up his own nursery in Botany. After WWII worked in a Mascot textile factory. Retired to Heathcote, where he died. Nellie's & Ted's ashes at Woronora Cemetery.
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