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. . THE JAMES AND MARY MURRAY MURDOCH FAMIiY HISTORY mmr mmnAY :>Aum mtt Murdoch vm. FA^SiY 0&G4N&ZAT50M ' i ' : ' ....... .. . ,M8736 . J 3iyie• .; M3 r y Mu v r 1 y h i s to . RICKSCOLLEGE LRC / 3 1404 00 1 m UBRARY USE ONLY RICKS COLLEGE David O. McKay Learning Resources Center Rexburg, Idaho 83440 ?0R UBRARY v U' This book is presented to Upper Snake River Valley — Genealogical Library 1982 As a family we appreciate the facilities and services available to us here. The James and Mary Murray Murdoch Family Organization Family members may contact James C. Baird Rt. 4 Box 277 Rigby, Idaho 83442 phone 745 - 7812 for a copy DATE DUE Utl IUUI | / ^ ^ Demco Digitized by the Internet Archive 2011 with funding from in Brigham Young University-Idaho http://www.archive.org/details/jamesmarymurraymOOmurd 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 111 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 , 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 VI