David Murray and Elspeth Harvie

David Murray was born in 1722 I believe in Traquair nearby to Innerleithen in the Scottish borders. He married firstly to Elspeth Harvie or Elizabeth Harvey in Melrose Selkirkshire, and secondly to Agnes Grey. His son David Murray was the ancestor of a very large group of Murrays from Utah in the USA via Davids son John Murray and his Irish wife Sarah Bates who settled in the USA.

This David was thought to have been a possible relation of our James Murray born 1797-1798 in Selkirk via his David.s son John Murray born 1766 circa in Melrose (also of Selkirk).

David Murray Senior was the owner of the Gala Bridge Inn in Ladhope Galashiels by Melrose and he is buried in the cemetery there beside his second wife Agnes Gray. This time last year July-Aug 2009 I visited their gravesite at Galashiels and took many photos, some of these will be posted here shortly. Further details regarding this family tree will be available shortly via a link from this blog. This David had a very large family including David Murray who married Christian Buchan- he was a Farmer of Eildon and Newhall. This David Jnr.is the Grandfather of John Murray of LDS fame who emigrated to America as a Soldier & married Sarah Bates.It is this clan who are the progenitors of an enormous Murray family in the USA today. Another branch of the family migrated to Canada and Australia through David Senior's 2nd wife Agnes Gray.

Researchers of this family include Georgia Clements of Australa, Todd Murray of USA, Larry Murray of USA x1; Larry Murray & Cheryl also of USA x2; Randy Montgomery USA; Delene and Donald of USA; and many many others.

I will be adding details of this family hereunder shortly so please comment by clicking the link under if you are related to Elspeth and David Murray.

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Family Tree DNA

We have recently celebrated the 94th birthday of my father, William J. Murray, who was born in Glasgow Scotland in the Mary Hill district of Kelvin Grove. Sadly at the same time after a serious fall necessitating X-Rays and CAT scan, serious lung damage was diagnosed. After much discussion and liaison with Murray family members from various countries he has decided to participate in the Murray family DNA project accessed via the Family Tree DNA website www.familytreedna.com .

Other male Murrays with ancestors from the Borders district have already participated, and I will expand on this further in discussion links hereunder. The process isn't at all difficult apart from the scraping of inside of the cheek episodes (3) in total, which are a wee bit annoying for an elderly participant. The company will send you a kit (Dad's pack arrived within a week from the USA to Australia), and the 3 samples are collected over a period of time with 3-4 hour intervals in order to ensure at least one viable sample.

William Murray is the only son of John William Murray 1881-1951 of Sydney Australia previously Glasgow and Selkirk Scotland, he is the grand son of William Murray born 1855 in Selkirk died 1930's Glasgow, son of John Murray 1823-1864 born and died in Selkirk son of James Murray born 1798 in Selkirk died 1854 in Selkirk.

By ordering the DNA kit within the Murray family web site on the above site a discount is guaranteed and importantly, by request the site will link you to everyone who has the same common ancestor as the person submitting the sample in future (Males only!) The site notifies you if you are matched with any other donor. This is an enormous leap forward for ancestor research and I shall elaborate further as to why I believe this to be so, in my next post!