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A significant link between the Gray family and the first white settlement and community at Yamba is that of Marie Perkins nee Gray’s husband Herbert ‘George’ Perkins (Schaumann) who was the great grandson of the first Pilot at Yamba, Francis Freeburn and his wife Elizabeth Freeburn nee McEvoy. Francis Freeburn and Elizabeth McEvoy Francis FreeburnContinue reading “George Perkins Family”

Farmer Malcolm Gordon Gray was the son of George Abner Gray who came out to Australia with his family as assisted immigrants from the Isle of Wight, England, on the ship the ‘Thomas Arbuthnot’ which left London on 22 Sept 1848 and Plymouth on 3 Oct 1848. George Gray was 31 years of age andContinue reading “Malcolm Gordon Gray”