Nicholai GAY (1570–1636)

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Nicholai GAY (1570–1636) & Mariae MUNCYE (1571–1633)

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Nicholai GAY (1570–1636) & Mariae MUNCYE (1571–1633)

Nicholai GAY (1570–1636) & Mariae MUNCYE (1571–1633) were the 8^thgreat-grandparents of Drusilla GAY (1868-1948) and the 9^th great-grandparents of Jeff Augustus "Gus" BIRD (1893-1954) also the 10^th great-grandparents of Evelyn Virginia BIRD (1922-2012)

Nicholai GAY (1570–1636) was born in 1570 and died 1636 in Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “The original piece of land known as ’Cardross’ is at the eastern edge of the historic parish and the western point of the confluence of the River Clyde and River Leven at the town of Dumbarton, facing across to Dumbarton Rock and Castle. Today the land is known as “sand point” and sits on the edge of Dumbarton's Levengrove Park.^[4] The site of medieval Cardross Kirk, and its remains, sits within Levengrove Park”.

Nicholai married Mariae MUNCYE (1571–1633) in Cardross in 1589. Mariae was born in 1571 and died in 1633 in Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. [i]

Nicholai & Mariae one had known child:

Thomas GAY (1590–1652) the emigrate. Thomas was born in 1590 in Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Thomas married Isabel DAYLE (1594–1654) on December 7, 1612, in Surrey, England. Isabel was born in August 1594 in York, Yorkshire, England.

Thomas & Isabel and their family emigrated to America in 1622 from Scotland to Isle Wight County, Virginia. [ii] Thomas died in Isle Wight County, Virginia in 1652. Isabel died in 1654 in Isle Wight County, Virginia. [iii]

Direct ancestral linage:

Nicholai GAY (1570-1636)

Thomas GAY (1590-1652) emigrate

Henry I GAY (1615-1669) emigrate

Henry II GAY (1640-1688)

Henry III GAY (1663-1735)

Reverent Thomas GAY (1690-1754)

Reverent Thomas II GAY (1723-1784)

Thomas Jefferson GAY (1774-1838)

George Washington GAY (1808-1899)

George Augustus "Gus" GAY (1840-1879)

Drusilla GAY (1868-1948)

Jeff Augustus "Gus" BIRD (1893-1954)

Evelyn Virginia BIRD (1922-2012)

11^th great-grandparents Kenneth “Ken” Edward LINTON & of Terry Louis LINTON

Sources:

[i] Title: England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980; Note Genealogical Society of Utah. British Isles Vital Records Index, 2nd Edition. Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, copyright 2002. Used by permission. Publisher Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Publisher date 2008; location Provo, UT, USA; Repository information, Name Ancestry.com; Address http://www.Ancestry.com

[ii] Title: database, Ancestry.com, \i Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s\i0 Author: CARL BOYER 3RD. Newhall, Calif.: the editor, 1979. 314p. 4th pr. 1986. Reprint. Family Line Publications…. Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s; Transcript Place: Virginia; Year: 1622; Page Number: 63; Detail Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2009. Origin al data: Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gal e Research, 2009. page 395; Note Filby, P. William, ed., Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2006; Publisher Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006; Repository information Address Bucks County Court House, Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

[iii] Title : Lists of the Living & the Dead in Virginia, February 16, 1623, database, Ancestry.com; Author, Joint Committee on Library (Senate Document, Extra); State Paper Office Publisher Ancestry.com