The James and Mary Murray Murdoch family history

1982·66.5 MB·English

by  the James and Mary Murray Murdock Family Organization

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THE JAMES AND MARY MURRAY MURDOCH
FAMILY HISTORY
THE JAMES AND MARY MURRAY MURDOCH
FAMILY ORGANIZATION
PROVO, UTAH
1982

Dedication
This record of James and Mary Murdoch and their family is
affectionately dedicated to their descendants of this and
future generations. May the story of our noble ancestors--
truth seekers, pioneers, community builders, and lovable
people--ever spur us on to useful and honorable effort and
service. May their memory help us surrender to the unchanging
truths that impelled them to walk righteously, to meet
sacrifice with a smile, to tame the mountains and deserts
with sturdy wills, and to toil gladly for the common good.
May we, as they did, strive to leave behind us imperishable,
worthy, living monuments of our labors on earth.
Dallas Earl Murdoch. President 1977-1981
To know nothing of our ancestry or from whence we came, to have
no reverence for the precious memories of the past, is to
ignore the elements and influences that have made us what we
are. And who so dead to sympathy and affection, to kindred
and country, that would not preserve the records of his ancestors,
the place of his birth, the home of his childhood and the sacred
spot where repose the loved ones of earth?
Author unknown
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Preface
ix
Acknowledgements xi
The Murdoch Name xiii
Map of Scotland xiv
Map of Gaswater-Auchinleck Area xv
Historical Sketch of Scotland
1
A Brief History of the Children and Grandchildren
of James and Mary Murray Murdoch 8
Sketch of Heber City, Utah 1850-1920 10
Murdochs in Idaho 20
Statistics of the Murdoch Family-1982 22
Murdoch Family Reunions 23
Recent Events of Significance to the Murdoch Family... 42
BIOGRAPHIES OF THE JAMES AND MARY MURRAY MURDOCH FAMILY
James and Mary Murray Murdoch 52
Janet Murdoch Smith 59
Alexander Smith 61
James Murdoch 66
Veronica Murdoch Caldow Giles 72
Mary Murdoch, Allan Mair and Daniel McMillan 81
John Mair and Catherine Connoly 95
James Mair and Mary Ann Pengelly 97
Allan Foulds Mair and Jean Ronald 101
Mary Mair and William Lindsay Ill
Andrew Mair and Mary Ann Thompson 148
Alexander Mair and Eliza Thompson 178
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John Murray Murdoch and Wives, Ann Steele
and Isabella Crawford 204
Mary Murray Murdoch, James Duke, and
William Ryan 250
Ann Murdoch, William M. Giles, and
Rachel Howarth Fortie Giles 274
Janett Osborne Murdoch, and Henry Lufkin
McMullin 322
Sarah Jane Murdoch, Thomas Keber Rasband
and William Lindsay 347
Jaccbina Wells Osborne Murdoch and
William Jonathon Clegg 374
Thomas Todd Murdoch and Sarah Ingeborg
Hansen Murdoch 396
Joseph A Murdoch and Martha Ellen Fortie
Murdoch 408
David Steele Murdoch and Mary Emily
Van Wagenen Murdoch 427
Millicent Sophia Murdoch and Edward
Teancum Murdock 445
Margaret Ann Murdoch and Lewis Joshua
Hawkes 459
Catherine Campbell Murdoch and David
William Kicken 474
James Crawford Murdoch and Sarah Elizabeth
Giles Murdoch 493
Brigham Murdoch, Planche Alexander Murdoch,
and Martha Louannie Hammon Murdoch 510
Robert Murdoch 550
John Murray Murdoch, Minnie Marie Miller
and Cora Leona Vail Bigler Murdoch 551
Isabella Crawford Murdoch and Hyrum Chase
Nicol 568
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