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As regards Stephen Bray; my family tree indicates that his siblings were Alfred, Alexander, Henry and Harriet.  Their parents were William (Bill) Bray (born 1833) and Ann Webb.  Bill  was the oldest child of William Bray (born 1812) and his first wife Harriet Pudney, with whom he had seven children.  Harriet passed away in 1854 and he re-married, to Sarah Ann Wingel, by whom he had another six children and adopted her child (also William). No wonder he died broke! My great grandfather was the second child of his second family and there wasn't a lot of contact between them after William (1812) died.  I do know Bill (1833)  was in Russia most of his life, and invited my great-grandfather Walter (his half-brother) to join him there around 1880.  Walter's descendants are also numerous, but all left Russia after the 1917 revolution.

If you are Stephen Bray's grandchild, we are fourth cousins.

To be clear, both my grandfather and great grandfather on my father's side were named Walter.  My great grandfather Walter 1862-1937 married Alice M. Digby.  I'm pretty sure the married in London, Wandsworth or thereabouts.  His children, in birth order, were: Walter, Alice Florence, Albert, Nancy, Florence Daisy, Frederick William, Isobelle (may have been Isabella), May (probably baptised Mary) and William.  What is your name and who are you descended from?

George Walter Bray is a distant relative - His great grandfather was my great-great-great grandfather. There was a whole colony of Brays living in Petersburg in the later 19th centruty until 1918.  George played doubles with his second cousin Walter Vassilyevich (my grandfather).  Somewhere there is a photograph of the two of them playing together on the courts on Kristovsky island.  Both were extremely tall and thin.  I remember George's son Laurie - also very tall - playing tennis with my father Peter. Tennis was big with them all, and another cousin was a professional in London.