John Wray was born in December 1897 in Paddington, NSW. He was the eldest child of Arthur and Annie Wray who lived in ‘Derry’ Sutherland Road, Beecroft. It appears from the Wray family photograph album that the Wray family were very close and shared many happy times in Beecroft and holidaying along the NSW coast.
John who was a military cadet as a boy, was interested in photography and entered competitions from a young age.
As an adult, he married Jean Victoria Alice Handcock in 1936 in Chatswood. They had one child, Mary, and for most of their marriage they lived in Sutherland Road, Beecroft, although John later moved to Gordon in the late 1960s. John was a Commercial Traveller and a talented photographer winning many competitions with his work featuring in The Australian Woman's Weekly and other newspapers. Jean Wray died in 1968 at the age of 67 and John died in 1977 at the age of 79.
Here are some examples of published photographs from John L. Wray.KeywordsWray Family
