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JOSEPH RAY Spouse: SARAH SPARROW
Parent/s: Parent/s: Sam Sparrow.
Born: c1625. Born: 8 April 1628, Depden, Suffolk.
Married: 19 February 1652/3 Depden, Suffolk. Married: 19 February 1652/3 Depden, Suffolk.
Died: Buried 11 February 1708, All Saints, Laxfield, Suffolk. Died: Buried 27 January 1690, All Saints, Laxfield, Suffolk.
Occupation: Woollen Draper of Laxfield, Suffolk. Occupation:
Notes: See LETTER TO NICHOLAS ATTLESEY
See EXTRACTS FROM WILL		 Notes: Believed to be of the same family as Bishop Anthony Sparrow, Bishop of Norwich.
Source: Boyd's Marriage Index. IGI, SFHS burial index. Source: Boyd's Marriage Index. IGI, SFHS burial index.

Joseph and Sarah had two sons and five daughters:-
SOURCE: Worlingworth Parish register, SFHS burial index.
 
The Sons:-

SAMUEL RAY (twin) born 19 April, baptised 29 April 1656, Worlingworth, Suffolk.      MORE

JOSEPH RAY (twin) born 19 April, baptised 29 April 1656, Worlingworth, Suffolk.
Joseph's father's will names two sons, Joseph and John and Daughter Ann, who married a Mr Fisher of Diss, Norfolk, (a Carpenter).
Joseph had died before the will dated 11 November 1707.

The Daughters:-

MARTHA RAY born 6 October, baptised 26 October 1658, Worlingworth, Suffolk.
Buried 19 July 1695, Laxfield, Suffolk. Unmarried.

SUSAN RAY born 24 April, baptised 3 May 1660. Worlingworth, Suffolk.
Susan's father's will refers to her as Susan Mayhew and that she had one child.

SARAH RAY baptised 30 July 1662. Worlingworth, Suffolk.    MORE

DEBORAH RAY born c1663, Laxfield, Suffolk.
Married DAN GRIMSBY
Deborah's father's will shows that she had six children.

ELIZABETH RAY born 1664, Laxfield, Suffolk.    MORE SOON

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