Hi BA
Thanks for this, useful to know and might come in handy. Looks like via the upload attachment tab!
Being a bit slow I thought I would get email prompts about messages here but don't think it works that way.
Murch wrote:Elaine,
Good to see someone else has visited the Maple Cemetery! I visited Vaughn last month and took some photos of the headstones as it seems everyone in that cemetery is related
I'm interested in that James McMurchy, but it seems that you and I may be talking about two different people. The James McMurchy/Martha Malloy I'm talking about has a limestone headstone that indicates:
James McMurchy "a native of Argyleshire Scotland Died 19 Feb 1854 aged 48 yrs
(Same stone) Martha Malloy wife of James McMurchy died Feb 26 1848 aged 46 yrs
Then further in the back of the cemetery there is a black headstone for another James McMurchy (my goodness there was a lot of them it seems) that has him married to an "Agnes" and a "Mary Armour McMillan".
That one states:
James McMurchy died Jan 17, 1886 aged 84 yrs 11 mo native of Argyleshire Scotland
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Agnes - Wife of James McMurchy deid Aug 28 1841 Aged 36 Yrs
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Mary McMillan - Wife of James McMurchy died Oct 15, 1896 aged 76 yrs 9 mo
At the rear of the stone it states:
Agnes - Daughter of James and Mary McMurchy died May 12 1847 age 1 yr 4 mo
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Rose - Daughter of James and Mary McMurchy died Mar 16 1918 aged 66 yrs
Side of the stone states:
Dougald - Son of James and Mary McMurchy died May 31 1890 aged 16 yrs 6 mo 5 days
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Archibald - Son of James and Mary McMurchy died Jan 19 1905 aged 60 yr 10 mo 20 days
With my James McMurchy passing away in 1854 according to that limestone marker, the children that are indicated on the UCalgary pages state that a majority of the children born to your James McMurchy couldn't have been mine due to the ages of the children as they were born after my James was deceased in 1854 (many of the kids were born in the 1860s). Perhaps an inaccuracy?
I contacted the St Andrew's Presbyterian Church historian in Maple ON a while back, and she is willing to go thru the archives at a cost, but I haven't been able to get back to her. It's a lead, just I haven't had the time to date to contact her.
That's what I have so far. My James McMurchy's kids were:
Isabella 1822-1900
Mary 1824-1840
Archibald 1826-1898
William 1828-1851
Elizabeth 1832-1867
James 1834-1852
Dugald 1836-1888
Martha 1838-
Mary Jane 1840 -
Does that help?
gizmo wrote:Does anyone interested in the McMurchys know anything about Ex-Provost James McMurchy and his wife Mary Primrose or his son Ian who was killed in WW1.
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