George Murison (1690 - 1777)

Born 1690 in Lonend of Memsie, Aberdeen, Scotland [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 7 Dec 1777 at about age 87 in Lonend of Memsie, Aberdeen, Scotland [uncertain]

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Biography

Everything we know about George Murison comes from the transcription of the family gravestone (#149, image uploaded) at Rathen Auld Kirkyard. We have found no evidence of records of his birth, or either of his marriages, on ScotlandPeople. However, it appears that documentary evidence may indeed exist in respect of his death at age 87 on 7 December 1777^[1] and his subsdquent burial in the Auld Kirkyard of Rathen, in the County of Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

He is stated to have been a "Farmer in Loanend of Memsie", but after much searching we have not yet managed to discover where exactly this farm may have been.

George evidently married twice, first in about 1720 to Margaret Taill, with whom he may have had six children, and later in about 1737 to Ann Setton with whom he may have had a further three.

Research Notes

From the available birth records on ScotlandsPeople we can see that there were at least two different persons named George Murison who had children baptized in Rathen during the period 1720-1750.^[2] We can determine this by studying the dates and spacings of the listed baptismal records. It is not clear how this can ever be completely unravelled without some major new record coming to light.

Sources

• WikiTree profile Murison-37 created through the import of mcleanNZ.ged on Feb 3, 2012 by Rhona Mclean. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Rhona and others.

• MyHeritage user 'Donna Jameson' shows George Murison born in Muirton of Memsie, a farmstead just southwest of Memsie, which is within a general area I once saw marked on a map as "Loanend". I have been unable to corroborate this.

1. ↑ Death: Death Record available from ScotlandsPeople Search on CHURCH REGISTERS; TYPE:Deaths CHURCH:Church of Scotland; SURNAME:Murison; FORENAME:Geo (sic); YEAR:1777; COUNTY:Aberdeen; PARISH:Rathen (free registration required, small fee to view the original document).
2. ↑ Selection of Birth Records: Birth Records available from ScotlandsPeople Search on CHURCH REGISTERS; TYPE:Births CHURCH:Church of Scotland; SURNAME:Murison; FORENAME:(blank); 1st PARENT NAME:Georg (sic) Murison; YEAR:1720 to 1750; COUNTY:Aberdeen; PARISH:Rathen (free registration required, small fee to view the original document).