Born

Date of birth calculated from age at burial

Legal.1

Bond for the quiet Enjoyment
"Know all men by these present that We John Glover of Woodbridge in the county of Suffolk Yeoman and Joseph Cliff of Wandsworth in the county of Surrey Coachman are held and firmly bound to William Ray of Worlingworth Shopkeeper in the sum of five hundred pounds of lawful money of Great Britain ... ...
... ...
the said James Glover and Elizabeth his wife and Joseph Cliff and Sarah his wife ... ..."
Re property in Leiston and Sizewell in Suffolk

Original seen in the Norfolk Archives
"Bond for the quiet enjoyment
Mr. Glover and Mr. Cliff
to
Mr Ray"

"received on the Day of the Date of the within written obligation of and from the within names William Ray the sum of two hundred pounds being in full consideration money to be paid for the third part of the within mentioned Messuage or tenement Farm lands and Herediments we say received the same by us
James Glover
Joseph Cliff
Sarah Cliff
Eliz Glover"

Norfolk Archives - ETN 11/1/2

Legal.1

Bond
"Know all men by these present that we James Glover of Woodbridge in the county of Suffolk Yeoman Joseph Clift of Wandsworth in the county of Surrey Coachman North of Saint Mary White Chapel in the county of Middlesex Hair Dresser and Elizabeth Warner of Saint Mary White Chapel aforesaid Widow are held and firmly bond to William Ray of Worlingworth in the said county of Suffolk Shopkeeper in the sum of four hundred pounds of lawful money of Great Britain to be paid to the said William Ray of his certain Attorney Executors Administrators or Assigns for the true payment whereof ourselves and each and every of us ... ..."
Re property in Leiston with Sizewell in Suffolk

Original in the Norfolk Record Office
"Date 6th day of March 1783
Mr. Glover & others to Mr. Wm Ray
Bond for the further Assurance & Performance of Covenants"

Mentioned in Will.2

Of William Ray - died 1790
Annotated as "my younger son"

Licence obtained for marriage to Mary MILLER in Faculty Office.12

Groom - William Ray
Bride - Mary Miller

Married Mary MILLER in Finsbury.19

Mentioned in Will.3

Of Rev'd Charles Ray - died 1789
Annotated as "my nephew William Ray of Worlingworth"

Birth of daughter Susanna RAY.13

Executor.2

Of the Will of William Ray - died 1790
Joint executors - Samuel Ray and William Ray "the sons"

Birth of daughter Mary RAY in Tannington.14

Birth of daughter Lydia RAY in Tannington.15,16

Birth of daughter Catherine RAY in Tannington.16

Death of Mary MILLER.17,18

Licence obtained for marriage to Lydia CLAYTON.20

Groom - William Ray, widower, of Tannington
Bride - Lydia Clayton, single woman, of Tannington
Marriage place- Tannington

Married Lydia CLAYTON in Tannington, St Ethelbert.21

Groom - William Ray, widower
Bride - Lydia Clayton

Mentioned in Will.4

Of Lydia Ray - died 1818
Annotated as "my nephews Samuel Ray and William Ray"

Wrote will.5

From a copy of the will in the Norfolk Record Office :-

"This is the last will and testament of me William Ray of Tannington in the County of Suffolk gentleman ... ...
Some names mentioned ._
1. "Samuel Clayton of the Parish of St Giles in the City of Norwich gentleman"
2. "William Ray Clayton of the Worlingworth in the said County of Suffolk Clerk"
3. James Lenney of Brundish in the same county farmer"
4. "Lydia my beloved wife"
5. "my four children Susannah the wife of William Smee Gentleman of the Bank of England Mary the wife of John Barker of Yarmouth in the county of Norfolk gentleman Lydia Ray and Catherine Ray"

Died in Norwich.6,7,8

From the Cambridge Chronicle and Journal :-
"On Wednesday se'nnigh, at Norwich, aged 57, William Ray, Esq. of Tannington-place, Suffolk"

From the Norfolk Chronicle :-
"Wednesday last, at the house of S. Clayton, Esq. in this city, in the 58th year of his age, Wm. Ray, Esq. of Tannington, in Suffolk"

From the Gentleman's Magazine :-
"July 21. At Norwich, in his 58th year, William Ray, esq. of Tannington-place, Suffolk. In him the poor have lost a liberal benefactor, and his surviving family and relations a kind and most affectionate friend."

Buried in Tannington, St Ethelbert.9

Buried with both wives

Probate in Consistory Court of the Arch Diocese of Suffolk.5

Executors :-
William Clayton
James Lanney
Both on 14th Sept 1819
Samuel Clayton on 26th February 1828

A copy of the will extracted from the Registry of the Archdeacon of Suffolk is in the Norfolk Record Office

Mentioned in Will.10

Of Elizabeth Ray
Described as :-
"the two daughter of my late nephew William Ray of Tannington Lydia the wife of Thomas Damant Eaton and Catherine Ray of Linford"

Mentioned in Will.11

Of Lydia Ray née Clayton - died 1848
Annotated as :-
"it is my desire to be interred in the same vault with my departed husband William Ray Gentleman in the churchyard at Tannington"