Friday, March 14, 2008

Murray & Munro in Dornoch & Renton

My MURRAY and MUNRO interests:

John Murray married Margaret Murray (OPR marriage registered Feb 4, 1805) at Dornoch.

They had the following children:
John (1798); Margaret (1805); Mary (1807); William (1809); Donald (1811); Girzel (1813); Robert (1820); Catherine (1822) -married James Fraser of Kirkcaldy, Fife - they ended up in Renton, Dumbarton/Cardross near Glasgow; and my line: Hugh (1825)

Hugh married Euphemia Munro - daughter of Donald Munro & Janet MacPherson of Dornoch Parish - Donald was a stone mason.
Hugh & Effie married March 6, 1860 - Hugh's father was listed as deceased but mother still living. Hugh and Effie left the Highlands after their marriage and went to Renton, Dumbarton/Cardcross. Hugh went to work at the dye works - one company name was "T R Printworks" also referred to as "T R Dyeworks". They raised their children there.

Hugh & Effie's children were: Margaret (Maggie) (1862) - married William Cunningham.
Donald (1864) married Margaret Sim - no children then after her early death married Mary Henderson
Jessie (1867 - 1885)
John (1869) my grandfather - came to Canada and married Mary Helena Maguire
Hughina (1873) married Robert Colquhoun - came to Canada in 1910 with their family

Heather Murray
Saskatoon, SK
Canada