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Mary Ann Johnston Drever and James Gray

Mary Ann Johnston Drever, b 20th Apr 1881 was the youngest of the four children of Robert Drever and Jane Hercus from Moa, Westray.

She married James Gray (b. 25th February 1885), who was the seventh of the ten children of William Gray and Janet Craigie from Brandies in Westray. James was a farm servant staying at Noltland at the time.

James and Mary’s first child had been born at Moa, two months previously.

The young family emigrated to Graminia, Alberta. They were to have three sons and four daughters, most of who had family of their own.

Mary Drever died in Edmonton, Alberta on 10th April 1942 at the age of sixty one. James Gray lived another twenty five years, dying there on 3rd January 1968, aged eighty two.

Their eldest son, William Gray, who was born at Moa on Westray on 3rd June 1905 married Alice (Kitty) Timbers (b. 11th September 1894, St Albert, Alberta) in November 1938. He died on 8th December 1984, also in Edmonton.