Notes A birth registration was found for Hephzibah Susan Gray: Year of Registration: 1869; Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun; District: Marylebone (1837-1901); County: London, Middlesex; Volume: 1a; Page: 432. Parents: Thomas and Emily Gray (probably Thomas Gray and Emily Drew, who married in 1858 at St Martin in the Fields, Middlesex, England).
In 1873, Hepzibah S. Gray, 4, arrived at Quebec, Canada, in a group of 60 Maria Rye chidlren en route to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Niagra, Ontario, Canada.
On July 11, 1885, at Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada, a marriage was registered between Epsie Susan Gray, 17, born in England to Thomas and Emily Sarah Gray; and another home child, Thomas Abbott, 21, groom, born in Ireland, to Thomas and Joanna Abbott.
Thomas and Epsie Susan Gray Abbott had at least 5 children: Joseph Francis Abbott, born July 20, 1888; Maud Louis Abbott, born December 8, 1885; Emily Abbott, born 1891; Joseph Abbott, born April 3, 1906; and Thomas Abbott, born March 8, 1892 and died September 2, 1893 of cholera and inflammation, at Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada.
On July 15, 1915, at Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada, a marriage was registered between Heppyzihah Abbott, 44, widow, born in England to Thomas Gray and Emily Sarah Martin; and John Shields, 43, laborer and soldier, born in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada, to Miles Shields and Lucy Hailey.