Nicholass Wray, *

1590 - Abt 1641  (51 years)

• Name	Nicholass Wray  [1, 2, 3]
  Suffix	*
  Birth	1590	Tanderagee, County of Armagh, Ulster, Northern Ireland
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1641	Tanderagree, Armagh, Ireland
  Person ID	I14045	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Family 1	Ann Unknown, *,   b. Abt 1600, Armagh, Northern Ireland d. Aft 1628, Armagh, Northern Ireland (Age > 29 years)
  _MARRIED	N
  Children	1. Ann Ree, *,   b. Abt 1628, Tanderagree, Armagh, Ireland d. 1 Feb 1671, Beleniskcrannel, Sego, Armagh, Northern Ireland (Age 43 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F4798	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Marriage	1620	Parish Kilmore, Armagh, Ireland
  Family ID	F8432	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

• Notes

  This name is also spelled Rea, Rhea and Ree. It was pronounced Ray. It might come from the Scotts names of McRay, McRea, McCrea, McCree or Machree. Nicholas was a British tenant on Lord Viscount Grandison's Plantation in Armagh, IRL.e are two Nicholas Wray's listed in 1630/31 as working the lands of Lord Grandison, both owning a Snaphance, a firelock handgun. The second Nicholas might be an error of duplication or two generations of Nicholas. The error is suspected because these Englishmen working the land were in the army and usually rather young of age. In the 1641 Irish rebellion, the St. Johns who oversaw the plantation were killed, their church and castle taken and Tanderagee destroyed. Nicholas might have died in the1641 Irish Rebellion. His only known child was Ann Ree. (C-956)

  
  

• Sources

  [S86] John W. Wayland, comp, Hopewell Friends History 1734-1934, Frederick Co, Virginia (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1975). [S87] Stewart J. Adger, comp, Descendants of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr. (John P. Morton & Co., 1925). [S1797] Valentine Hollingsworth Pedigree Chart entitled "The Immigrant".