Introduction / William Gray and Mary Robertson

Mary Gray and John James Logan Foulis

Mary Gray married John James Logan Foulis, born 1848, the son of Armit Foulis and Christian Sutherland Foulis, on 2 April 1872. He was a farm servant and lived at Quarryhouse, Papay. He died 21 May 1913, at Quarryhouse. He was recorded at Dykeside in the 1881 and 1901 Census. This appears to be a naming mistake or controversy on the part of the Census takers since every birth, death and marriage record has the family at Quarryhouse from first to last.

1881 - East Dykeside, Papa Westray

	Relation	Age	Occupation	Born
William Gray	Head	73 years	Former farm servant	Papa Westray
Mary Gray	Wife	83 years		Papa Westray
Isabella Gray	Dau	54 years	Farm servant	Papa Westray

1881 - East Dykeside, Papa Westray

	Relation	Age	Occupation	Born
John Foulis	Head	32 years	Farm servant	Papa Westray
Mary Foulis	Wife	38 years		Papa Westray
John Foulis	Son	7 years	Scholar	Papa Westray
Mary Foulis	Dau	5 years		Papa Westray
William A Foulis	Son	3 years		Papa Westray
George Foulis	Son	1 years		Papa Westray

One wonders how John felt living next door to his in-laws!

There is an inscription in St. Boniface kirkyard naming both of them.

Their children were:

• John Foulis, born 6th March 1873

• Mary Foulis, born 5th November 1874

• William Armit Foulis, born 8th August 1877, who married Sarah Ann Byers.

• George G Foulis, born 8th September 1879, married Mary Ann Jones. They had a son, Armit John Foulis, who died in 1933 at the age of 24 years

• James Foulis, born 22nd February 1885