Photos above:  William Gracey (b. 1798), left; 
Daguerreotype of his four sisters. (Most likely to be Martha, Sarah, Mary, and Catherine)




1. William GRACEY (other spellings Greacey, Grasy) and Agness CRAIG  m. 1790
   William was born 12, May 1760. He died 1836 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
   Agness was born 26, April 1769. She died 7, July 1835.  In 1789, William was living 
   in the Northern Liberties area of Philadelphia. He was a shipworker
(Pennsylvania Tax and Exoneration records). In 1807, he lived in Whitpain, 
Montgomery County, PA. He was a labourer.    They were from Northern Ireland.

   Their children:  


    2. Martha     b. 15, July 1791  Montgomery, PA. She m. 1816 to 
                  Isaac CUSTER.  She died 20, March 1870.
    3. John       b. 31, August 1793
    4. William    b.  17, Dec. 1798 in Pennsylvania.  He 
                  m. Mary Jane  ?
    5. Sarah      b. 1, July 1801 (alive in 1836)
    6. Agness     b. 19, February 1803 in Pennsylvania.  
                  She m. ca. 1833 Jhob  WORSLEY
    7. James      b. 3, April  1805 d. 24, June 1883 m. Susannah E.
        REED b. 1808 d. 1884. See Gracey In PA on Genforum for James and Susannah Gracey's Descendants: 
 (Source: Kathleen Dorr Bevan)

    8. Samuel     b. 28, November 1807 in Pennsylvania.
    9. Mary       b. 17, April 1810 (alive in 1836)
   10. Catherine  b. 18, April 1811 (alive in 1836)

SECOND GENERATION:
2. Martha Gracey m. Isaac CUSTER in 1816 Montgomery County, PA, Son of John CUSTER 
Children:
11. John Custer
12. William 
13. Sarah
14. Mary Ann (Source Marilyn Custer)



4. William GRACEY (pictured above, left) (William Gracey Sr.) 
   and Mary Jane ?

William GRACEY   m. Mary Jane ? (She might have been Melungeon.)
William died ca. 1865.   Mary Jane ? 
was b. 20, July 1820 Kentucky.  She died 12, July 1891 in Oakland, 
Alameda County, California.  She is buried at Mt. View Cemetery in 
Oakland, California.   Her mother was born in Missouri;  her father 
was born in Kentucky.  

William GRACEY and Mary Jane ? lived in Scott County,
Missouri where William GRACEY  had a pottery making
business.  He was also  a road overseer and postmaster
of the town.   William, his brother, Samuel, and his sister 
Agness lived in the town of Commerce, Scott County, Missouri. 


The children of William and Mary Jane Gracey:
15. Roxana b. 1844 (May actually be daughter of Patrick TOBIN. 
Patrick  m. Araminta Raspberry in 1854 in Scott County, Missouri.)

16. Louisiana (Lucy) b. 10, March 1846 in Missouri. (May actually 
    be daughter of Patrick Tobin.) She was
    buried 17, October 1899 at Mountain View Cemetery,
    Oakland, California.   She married J.J. "Jasper" Hale in Crescent
    City, Del Norte County, California on 20, September 1860.
    They had two sons, Marcellus L. HALE b. Hydesville, 
    Bridgeport in 1869, and Elmer Baker HALE b. ca. 1871.
    Marcellus had a son Thomas.

17. Eugene William (Gene)  b. 1, January 1857 in Crescent 
    City, Del Norte, California.  He is buried 28, June 
    1933 at Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California.
    He  married Agnes Catherine Gracey in 1893 in Oakland,
    Alameda County, California. The 1892 California Voter 
    Register shows him as 5'-9" in height with dark complexion, 
    eyes, and hair.

18. Hatteras Samuel b. 12, September 1861 Crescent City, 
    Del Norte Co., California.  He died 1920 at Forest
    Glen, Trinity County, California.  He is buried 
    at Mt. View cemetery in Oakland, CA. The 1892 California 
    Voter Register shows him as 5'-10" in height with dark complexion, 
    eyes, and hair.




The family moved from Crescent City to San Francisco 
in 1865, and then to Oakland, Alameda County, CA in 1867. 

Possible related family names that I found in an old family
photo album:  Urso, Anderson, Jones, and Beeman/Beaman/Beatman.



6. Agness Gracey (William Sr.) was born 19, 
February 1803 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
and died 1, August 1849 in Commerce, Missouri. 
She married Jhob WORSLEY ca. 1833 in Philadelphia. 
Agness and Jhob are buried in the Anderson/ Commerce 
Cemetery in Missouri.

Children of Agness Gracey and Jhob Worsley are:  
19.  Eliza Worsley, b. ca. 1833; d. Pennsylvania  
     or Delaware
20.  Rebecca Worsley b. ca. 1835; d. ca. 1835 Delaware
21.  Hanna Worlsey b. ca. 1836 d. ca. 1836 Delaware
22.  Martha Ann Worsley b. 1839 
23.  Wm. James Worsley b. 1844

7. James Gracey m. Susannah E. 
Children:
24. Samuel Gracey b. 15, August, 1833 d. 15, January 1915 and is buried in Zion's Lutheran   Cemetery  in          Pottstown, PA. He  m. Annie Grimm.  Their children: Susan ? and Ida L. (Source: Barbara Mihilchek)
25. James b. about 1836
26. William b. about 1838
27. Martha  b. about 1840 m. Mr. Babb  of Wilmington, Delaware (Source: Barbara Mihilchek)
28. John  b. about 1842
29. Susan E. b. about 1844 M. Mr. Jordan of Chester Springs (Source: Barbara Mihilchek)
30. Mary C. b. about 1846 married C.W. Wagoner (or Wagner)
31. Catharine b. about 1848 (source-1850 PA census) (Source: Marjie Amic)

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16.Children of Louisiana GRACEY & J.J. HALE
  32. Marcellus Hale
  33. Elmer Baker Hale
Children of  Marcellus & Lou Olive Hale (m. 2nd Peter McNAUGHTON)
  Thomas M. Hale b. ca. 13, Sept. 1908.He m. Helen ?; they 
  lived at 2004 Pine Street, Eureka, Ca in 1960.He d. ca. March 1971.
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17. Eugene William GRACEY (Wm, Wm Sr.)& Agnes Catherine
    JACKSON were m. in Oakland,Alameda County,
    California  on July 7th, 1893 at 11:41 am by Father J.B. O'Connor of 
    Rodeo Church. Witnesses were Frank Evans and Rosa O'Connor, 
    both of Oakland.

William died in 1933. He went to Brayton College,
forerunner of the University of California, 
before it was moved to Berkeley, California.  He
was a skilled painter of the faux arts. He belonged
to the amateur baseball club, "Oakland
Nine of the Wide Awakes".

Agnes Catherine was born 26, February 1871  in
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.  Her father, John
JACKSON, was b. in Ireland ca. 1827/1828. His
father was William/Peter JACKSON and his mother was 
poss. Ann  McDADE/McDEVITT.
Her mother, Mary Anne LAFFY, was b. in Ireland ca. 
1841/42  and settled in Scotland when she was
about two years old.  She was the daughter of Thomas 
LAFFY(ey)(ie) and Agnes STEVENSON/STEVENSTON. 
Thomas was a brusher in an iron pit. Agnes 
was the daughter  Moley/Molly (?)  
Stevenston-Davis (or Davies). MaryAnne's sister was 
Catherine, who went to the United States and married
Andrew McClure and settled in Paterson, New Jersey. Their 
children were listed in the 1910 Paterson, New Jersey census
(Andrew, William, Allan, and Catherine).

John Jackson and MaryAnne Laffy were m. 
14, May 1866 in Port Glasgow, Scotland.  The family
lived at 41 Havannah Street, a tenement. John 
Jackson d.1874 (poss. August 8). John Jackson,
a furnaceman at a chemical works, is said to have
committed suicide off a Glasgow bridge in Scotland. 
His body was found at Monkland Canal near St. 
Rollocks Chemical Works (poss. where he worked). 
He is buried at Dalbeth Cemetery. His parents were 
William and Ann (McDade or McDevitt) Jackson.  
MaryAnn was a jute weaver. Both John and MayAnn 
Jackson were illiterate. MaryAnn Laffy Jackson remarried
Michael New (son of Matthew and Helen (Machar) 
New).  They lived in the village of Barry 
near Carnoustie (north of Dundee). They lived at 4 
Annfield Road. In 1911, Mary Ann Laffy Jackson New 
died at the Parochial Hospital. 

Children of John Jackson and Mary Ann Laffey: 
i.Agnes Catherine 26, February 1871
ii.Mary (b. 1869),
iii.Catherine (b. 1872 d. 1874 of teething).  

Agnes Catherine Jackson  attended grade school in
Dundee, Scotland. She came to America ca. 1889 on the 
S.S. Furnessia to work in the New Jersey spinning mills.  
She was sent to California to instruct girls how to 
operate the spinning machines at the Oakland 
California Cotton Mills (a new mill in 1881) to 
help establish the new jute spinning 
department in about 1891. (For picture go to
http://collections.museumca.org/item_detail.jsp?from_basic_search=t&id=56062&start=11) Related family names:
LECKIE, McCLURE, EMMONS.





S.S. Furnessia

Eugene William GRACEY, Hatteras Samuel GRACEY,
and cousin  Marcellus HALE and families -all
homesteaded in 1894 in the Long Ridge Area 
of the Mad River country of Trinity County going in 
on trails by horseback from Eureka, Humboldt
County, California.  

Children of Eugene William Gracey and Agnes Jackson:
34. Robert Ingersoll m. 20, September 1924 to Bertha Adele 
    HUTCHISON Hutchison webpage: Hutchisons of Butler  County, Pennsylvania

35. Marguerite Cecilia m.  Otto LEHR;
36. Sarah (d. young; 1903); drowned in Ferndale, California
37.Samuel (d. young;1903) drowned in Ferndale, California
38.Francis (d. young;1903);
39.William  m.1932 to  Dorothy Beatrice  HAUSMAN
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18. Hatteras Samuel Gracey
Children of Hatteras Samuel Gracey:
(Not known if he had any children)
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23. Wm. James WORSLEY (Agnes Gracey, Wm. Gracey Sr.) was b. 22, 
September 1844 
in Commerce, Scott County, MO.;
d. 29, May 1920 in Commerce, Scott County, 
MO.He m.(1) Ann PRICE.He m.(2) Jennie RANDOL. 

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