Looking for URE's, GRAY's, & SHAW's

[Uregirl]

My grandfather came from Shotts, Lanarkshire and unfortunately he passed on before I realised the importance of discussing the family with him. If you know of these families or connect in some way I would like to hear from you.

What I think I know is as follows:
John Gray URE or John Ure GRAY - Grandfather b. 1/06/1897 in Shotts, Lanarkshire -moved to Australia in 1925 and then on to New Zealand where he lived out his life. His siblings were Jeanie, Robert, Harry, & Jessie.
Robert URE b.1863, his father, married Jane (Jeanie) HUGHES. Robert had a sister called Elizabeth b.1865.
Their father also Robert URE married Elizabeth SHAW (in 1862)and died early. Elizabeth SHAW went on to marry John GRAY(in 1867). John GRAY came to the marriage with a son called John. Elizabeth and John had 4 more children possibly named William, James, Annabella & Thomas.

[Finnigan]

Hello Uregirl,
     I have read your RootsChat article in regard to URE.
My great uncle Edward Boyle, married Elizabeth Ure in Rutherglen at the Catholic Chapel on January 13, 1890.  I beleive this same Elizabeth is found on the 1881 census at 11 years old and with her father, Robert, 47 years,  mother, Catherine, 45 years,  Thomas, 15 years  and Catherine, 6 years.  Residence is 145 Mill St., Rutherglen.
     Edward and Elizabeth had a son named Robert who died at 10months old and is buried at Westburn Cemetery. Is this the same Elizabeth Ure as in your inquiry?  Besides the Boyle name, I also have Hughes ancestors.
                     Sincerely, Finnigan (another of my names!)

[Uregirl]

Hi Finnigan,

The one thing I have discovered is that there are a great number of Robert URE's out there!!!  My Elizabeth URE born 1865 did not marry or have children. The mother, of my other Elisabeth SPALL nee Ure who was born after 1897, was Janet(Jeanie) URE nee HUGHES.  I hope this helps clarify things for you.

Regards
Uregirl

[Seaforth8]

Hello Uregirl,
My wife and I have also been researching the Ure family of Shotts and found that your Grandfather John Gray Ure was the brother of her Grandmother Jeannie Ure.   There were actually seven children in the family - Jeannie, Robert, Henry (Harry), John, Elizabeth (Lizzie), Mary and Jessie.
Elizabeth was born around 1900 and later moved to Canada and married.   She had no children, only a step-daughter.
Mary was born 1902 in Calderhead Shotts, married a Thomas Pettigrew, had no children and died in her early 30's.

Around 1910/11 the family were living in Wemyss area in Fife, as Robert Ure Snr. and two of his sons Robert and Harry were coal miners in one of the local collieries (possibly the "Rosie Pit").

Jeannie married John Birrell from Kennoway, Fife and lived the rest of her life there.   She died in 1961.
Hope this info is of use to you in your search for your "roots".

[Tussock]

 Hi Uregirl
I have no relationship to this family however I did know them  John Ure Gray b1897  died in Whangarei Northland NZ on the 12/02/1978 and  cremated at the Maunu Lawn Cemetery Crematorium  14/02/1978 .
Marjorie Drouin  Gray (Donkin) b 1909 also died in Whangarei NZ on the 28/07/2001 and was cremated on the 01/08/2001 also a the the Maunu Facility , one of  their son's Robert Melbourne Ure  Gray ( Known as Bob). b 1933 Melbourne Australia  died 14/08/2002 in Whangarei NZ and was Cremated on the 19/08/2002 also at the Maunu Facility , Bob was a Linotype operator for many years, until they became obsolete , at the local Northern Publishing Company  who printed the local newspaper "The Northern Advocate", he married a girl that he worked with Kathy  the had one child a girl but later divorced , Kathy later married a very good friend of mine who has just recently passed away
I think that John and  Marjorie had more than 1 child however I am not sure . I hope that this has been of use to you  Cheers Lew