Jean Vivra Gray1

(20 July 1924 - 29 July 2016)
FatherAllan Arthur Gray2 (c Mar 1898 - )
MotherDoris Maud Simpson3
     Jean Vivra Gray was born on 20 July 1924 at Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, .1 She was the daughter of Allan Arthur Gray and Doris Maud Simpson.2,3 Her birth was registered in the September quarter of 1924 in the Grimsby registration district.4 Jean Vivra Gray died on 29 July 2016 at Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England, , at age 92.1

Research Notes

  • Jean Vivra Gray was familiar to television viewers of the 1970s and 1980s for her roles in a series of Australian television soap operas, including as Edna Pearson in Prisoner Cell Block H, as Ida Jessop in The Sullivans (which earned her a Logie Award in 1978 for Best Sustained Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role), and later,
    and most famously, as the loathsome busy-body Mrs (Nell) Mangel in Neighbours. at Australia, .5

Citations

  1. [S672] The Telegraph, 29 Jul 2016, Vivean Gray was born Jean Vivra Gray on July 20 1924 at Cleethorpes ... Vivean Gray left Australia for Britain in the mid-1990s and settled at Shoreham-by-
    Sea ...Vivean Gray, born July 20 1924, died July 29 2016.
  2. [S672] The Telegraph, 29 Jul 2016, Her father, Allan, was a fish merchant at Grimsby Docks.
  3. [S110] FreeBMD, online http://www.freebmd.org.uk/, MARRIAGE of Allan A Gray and Doris M Simpson, Grimsby 7a 1637, Jun 1923.
  4. [S110] FreeBMD, online http://www.freebmd.org.uk/, BIRTH Jean V Gray, Simpson, Grimsby 7a 1036, Sep 1924.
  5. [S672] The Telegraph, 29 Jul 2016, became familiar to television viewers of the 1970s and 1980s for her roles in a series of Australian television soap operas, including as Edna Pearson in Prisoner Cell Block H, as Ida Jessop in The Sullivans (which earned her a Logie Award in 1978 for Best Sustained Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role), and later,
    and most famously, as the loathsome busy-body Mrs (Nell) Mangel in Neighbours.