Born.1

Date calculated from age at death

Mentioned in Will.2

Of William Ray - died 1768
Annotated as "my daughters ... Elizabeth Ray"

Mentioned in Will.3

Of Rev'd. Charles Ray - died 1789
Annotated as "my sisters Catherine Smyth Lydia Ray Elizabeth Ray now living together at Norwich"

Mentioned in Will.4

Of Lydia Ray - died 1818
Annotated as "my sister"

Mentioned in Will.5

Of Jemima Ray née Gurdon - died 1818
Annotated as "Elizabeth Ray of ditto" (Ditto being for Norwich"

Executor.4

Of the Will of Lydia Ray - died 1818
Annotated as "spinster the sister"

Wrote will.6

"This is the last will and testament of me Elizabeth Ray of the City of Norwich Spinster ... ..."

Some names mentioned :-
1) my niece Rebecca Clayton
2) my nephew Samuel Ray of Tannington in Suffolk
3) his son William Ray of Tannington
4) the children of Samuel Ray late of Worlingworth who shall be living at the time of my death
5) the two daughter of my late nephew William Ray of Tannington Lydia the wife of Thomas Damant Eaton and Catherine Ray of Linford
6) my nephew the Reverend Peter Eade
7) the children of my late nephew Charles Eade deceased
8) my nephew Thomas Eade
9) my nephew James Ray of Clare
10) my nieces Lydia Ray widow  and Ann Deborah Catherine Margaret Elizabeth and Susannah Clayton
11) my niece Rebecca Clayton
12) Susannah Hughes the wife of the Reverend Henry Hughes of Lothbury in Buckinghamshire
13) Ann Grove and Mary Grove the daughter of the Reverend Doctor Groves and the late Ann Groves my niece
14) the said Henry Hughes and Mrs Susannah Hughes his wife
15) the four younger children of my late niece Ann Groves John Sarah Elizabeth and Philip Groves

Died in Norwich, St Giles.7,1

From the Norfolk Chronicle :-
"Thursday last, in her 87th year, Mrs. Elizabeth Ray, of St. Giles's"

Buried in Norwich, Cathedral, North Cloister.8,1

From the gravestone :-
"Also ELIZABETH Daughter of WILLIAM RAY Gent who died June 15th 1837 Aged 86 years"

Photo taken by Linda Eccles - 16th July 2016

Probate in Norwich.6

Executor - Rebecca Clayton