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Hi again, Sorry to give you unnecessary work! Do I keep going on this thread now, and what further info do you need?
These are the siblings:- Elizabeth, b.1846, Mary Agnes, b.1847, Walter William, b.1848, Amy Edith, b.1852, Sarah Ann Martha, b.1854, Cecelia Blanche, b.1856 and Florence Marion, b.1859.
Regards,
Georgina

Like many others here I am more than happy to do look-ups but when I see that there are already 4 other threads on the same family I am very reluctant to do so. It would mean reading through all 4 threads to make sure that I don't repeat something that's already been found.

Please, Georgina, do as MC suggests and add to your previous thread instead of starting a new one.

Hi,
Parents William Beresford Wray and Elizabeth Wray formerly Bainbridge. 1851 census record is correct, they lived at 2 Austen St, Birkenhead. The father, (my g.g.grandfather) W.B.Wray formed six of the siblings into a concert group called The Little Nightingales, first here, then he took them to Australia on a tour, to Melbourne, also for his health, he had consumption and died there in April 1861, the mother and children came back to Liverpool in November 1862. It's the correct family, daughter Mary Agnes is my great grandmother.

Georgina, it would help us enormously if you would add requests for info on a member of the same family on one of the existing threads (in keeping with Genes' terms & conditions) - it saves us repeating research already done (as I just have with the baptism) and it's much better for us if we have the background to the family all in one place.

Previous thread on family:

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1317698

and

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1319529

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1318506

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1318458

Do you think he just came for the wedding!

Posting different version of 1851 to show detail:

WRAY, W B Head Married F 24 1827 Teacher Of Music Alfreton, Derbyshire
WRAY, Elizabeth Wife Married F 26 1825 Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire
WRAY, Elizabeth Daughter F 5 1846 Scholar Everton, Lancashire
WRAY, Mary Daughter F 3 1848 Everton, Lancashire
WRAY, Walter Son M 2 1849 Everton, Lancashire
BAINBRIDGE, E Mother In Law Widow F 61 1790 Flintham, Nottinghamshire
BAINBRIDGE, William Brother In Law Unmarried M 21 1830 French Polisher Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire
PRESCOTT, Sarah Servant Unmarried F 18 1833 General Servant Liverpool

Piece: 2175 Folio: 261 Page: 24
Registration District: Wirral
Civil Parish: Birkenhead

Address: 2, Austin Street, Birkenhead County: Cheshire

Posting his baptism for background info:

Liverpool, England, Baptisms, 1813-1906

Name: Walter William Wray
Birth Date: 5 Aug 1848
Baptism Date: 13 Sep 1848
Parish: Liverpool, St Peter
Father's Name: William Berisford Wray - Professor of music
Mother's Name: Elizabeth Wray
Reference Number: 283 PET/2/38

Abode: Prince Edwin Street

Hi Georgina, do you know what the circumstances were that caused the family to go to Australia and come back again? Have you got records to confirm it's the same family?

Name

Age
W B Wray 24
Elizabeth Wray 26
Elizabeth Wray 5
Mary Wray 3

Walter Wray

2
E Bainbridge

61
William Bainbridge

21
Sarah Prescott

18
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Who are his parents please

Prehaps you could give us the 1851 census

Hello,
Can you please help me find Walter William Wray, born 1848 in Everton, West Derby, Liverpool. He is in 1851 census with parents and two sisters, in Birkenhead. The whole family were in Australia in 1861 so no record of him here, the family returned to Liverpool in 1862, and I know Walter William Wray was alive in 1864 because he was a witness at his oldest sister Elizabeth's marriage, in Birkenhead. After this, I can find no record of him, either census, marriage or death, there are loads of William Wrays all over the country, but hardly any Walter William Wrays and I have no idea if any of them are him!
Hopefully,
Georgina