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Murray


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Origin of the surname

History

Generation 1

Eleanor MURRAY was baptised in 1784 in Kirklinton, Cumberland. Her parents were Charles MURRAY and Elizabeth ARMSTRONG, who married in Kirklinton in 1783; Charles signed as MORRAH. I know nothing else about Charles and he does not appear to have been baptised in Kirklinton.

Eleanor had a son, John HOLLIDAY, by John HOLLIDAY in 1815 and she appears in the 1851 census in her son's household as a widow, but with the surname of MURRAY. She also had a son Thomas by William JOHNSTONE in 1826. Thomas appears as John's brother in the 1851 census under the surname of HOLLIDAY, but in the 1861 he appears as Thomas JOHNSTON.

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