William Gray - Papers, 1882-1937

PMB 1046

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441401

Microfilm : PMB 1046

microfilm reels 35 mm

William Gray (1854-1937) was born near Gawler, South Aust. He obtained his B.A. from Adelaide University and graduated in divinity from Union College in 1880. He married Elizabeth McEwen in 1882 and shortly after they sailed for Weasisi, Tanna, New Hebribes in the "Dayspring." Gray was the first Presbyterian Church of South Australia missionary to the New Hebrides. He produced a grammar, primer, hymnal and translation of Luke's Gospel in the Tanna language

The collection is divided into three parts. Part I (reels 1 and 2) deals with Gray's diaries. The period covered is from 1 Sept. 1884 to March 1898. Part II (reel 3) comprises miscellaneous papers which include: i) Gray's diary, ii) various birth and marriage certificates, iii) genealogy of the Gray family, iv) articles and correspondence, v) account of the wreck of the "Ferdinand de Lessops", vii) "Some notes on the Tannese", an ethnographic article of 1894. Part III consists of correspondence to Gray

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 1046
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