James (1853, 1901, 1911 - Glenhall, 1912 - Managher) Gray 
James was born in 1832.Birth Notes
Gives 79 as age in 1911 census = Date of Birth of 1832.
Death Notes
General Registry Office has Death certificate for James Gray of Managher, died 1912, aged 80, Present at Death was daughter, Eliza Jane Gray. This must be this James, even though he seems to have moved to Managher in the last year of his life, because his daughter, Eliza Jane, is unmarried in the 1911 census and he is aged 79 at that time. There is a problem with the Griffiths Valuation Revision Book which seems to show James arriving in Managher in 1913 and scratched out in 1915 when he is replaced by Eliza Jane, who, herself, is scratched out in the same year, 1915. But this is probably explainable by the way in which the Griffiths Valuation Revision Books are kept.
General Notes
Why are there two James Grays of Glenhall, both sons of a James Gray and both marrying in 1853, in the Local Record Office?!!
Why is there no trace of this man in the Griffiths Valuation of circa 1855.
The 1901 Census shows James and Rachel living alone in Glenhall, Reformed Presbyterians, aged 67 and 66 respectively, he an Agricultural Labourer and she a Seamstress, both from County Derry. They live in a house belonging to William Henry, who also lives in Glenhall.
By 1911, James and Rachel are both 79, Presbyterians, he still an Agricultural Labourer, she no occunpation and they are now living with their daighter, Eliza Jane Gray, who is 55 and unmarried. It shows that James and Rachel had four children, two still alive. They were still living in William Henry's house and he still lived in Glenhall.
Good lord! This man, James Gray, first appears in House 8a in Glenhall in the GVRBs in 1904, holding the house from a Wiliam Henry. It must be him because the house becomes "vacant" in the GVRBs in 1913 and we know this man died in 1912 (although, he died in Managher). And guess what. William Henry acquired all of Plots 7, 8 and 9 in 1886 from...... a John Brewster!! This is very odd. It would make more sense if the James Gray who is married to Hannah Elizabeth Henry, the brother of my William Gray, who was married to Anne Brewster, inherited the land of a John Brewster of Glenhall from a William Henry! Having said that, Anne Brewster's grandfather, John Brewster, probably came from Drumcroon rather than Glenhall.
It is also worth noting that a James Gray appeared in Managher, in 1913, to be replaced by Eliza Jane Gray in 1915, who is in turn scored out in what seems to be the same year. So, we can be fairly certain that we have the right James Gray = the one NOT married to Hannah Elizabeth Henry, nor his father = the one married to Aliza Jane Brown, not his father either = the one married to Elizabeth ????. But clearly, the two James Grays, one married to Rachel Mitchell and the other to Hannah Elizabeth Henry, must have been connected in some way.
Details of James' family with Rachel (1901, 1911 - Glenhall, 1919 - Managher) Mitchell
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