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Margaret GREGAN nee GRAY

Margaret Elizabeth GRAY
1830 - 1904

Margaret in her teens was taken to secretly to Australia by a minister from the CMS mission.  Its possible that her older brother Alexander GRAY Jnr was taken there at the same time.  Their father felt that they needed to leave from the treats from the Bay of Island Maori faction which considered the children under their control and ownership.  Margaret's first husband was William GOURLAY. When he died she married Edward CREGAN  

Guide Sophia HINERANGI

Mary Sophia HINERANGI / GRAY
1832 - 1911

Best known as ‘Guide Sophia’ (but sometimes also as Tepaea HINERANGI was the principal tourist guide of the famous Pink and White Terraces at Lake Rotomahana. Following their destruction during the Mt Tarawera eruption of 1886, she became a tour guide at nearby Whakarewarewa, Rotorua.  Her monument is at the entrance to Whakarewarewa Historic Villiage.
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Jane Maria PHILLIPS 1834 - 1922

Jane Maria GRAY 
1834 - 1922 

Painting with Jane on the left.
Jane had 5 marriages / unions
Sedborough MAYNE  issue 2
Charles YEELES     issue 0
Fredric HERRIES    issue 3
William Sydney SMITH issue 3
George W S PHILLIPS  issue 7