Hugh Murray (abt. 1800 - abt. 1850)

Born about 1800 in Ireland [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about 1850 at about age 50 in Ireland [uncertain]

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Biography

Hugh was born about 1800. He passed away about 1850, and is unlikely to have left Ireland at any point. The only evidence for Hugh that we have so far is anecdotal - see Research Notes.

Research Notes

Many Irish families broke up from 1845 as a result of many deaths and emigrations during the Potato Famine, so the following story is typical.

The following was emailed in 2019:

"A lady in the US called Mizmartha who had a James Kenny Murray in her family tree tells the following story.... James Kenny Murray's father, Hugh Murray probably lived in Kildare, Ireland. I believe his children were James (born 1837), George (born 1843), John (born ?), and two sisters who moved to Australia about 1845 or later. Here is a copy about this from my mother, who has been dead about 30 years. :-

According to Uncle Jim Murray, Hugh Murray had a brother John Murray. Hugh had three sons, George, James, and John(?) who for some reason or other lived with John Murray around 1845, Perhaps Hugh died as for sure at least 2 sisters went to Australia at this time. One day their Uncle John told the boys, who were about 10 years old, to take a dog to a man who lived a day's journey away. They were to go there, stay all night, and return the next day. When they got back, Uncle John and wife were not in the house. They had left for Canada. James went to live with a farmer as a hired hand and George worked for a man who was the tax collector. He drove horse for the man. When they were young men they came to Canada and then to U. S. James went back to Canada to marry Harriet Bailey. Sometime later, the mother came to live with George Murray. Uncle Jim said she had married again, and her name was Lampton. He did not remember whether she married again in Ireland or here. He does remember her living with the family (James Murray) when he was about 5 years old. That would have been about 1888 in Brady Township, Saginaw. She died there and is buried in the Griffus Cemetery. Uncle Jim said the grave is just inside the gate.

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Was the 'brother' of Hugh, John, actually a brother-in-law Bailey? Perhaps the Harriet Bailey whom James married was somehow a niece of "the mother" Jane? It might explain why James would have already known her and went back to Canada for her - she was born in Canada in about 1848 according to census data.

"The mother", Jane nee Bailey, shows up in the 1880 U.S. census, staying with George on the outskirts of Detroit about 70 miles from Brady, at Macomb Street, Mt. Clemens, Macomb County: "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYB4-SYX?cc=1417683&wc=X4LG-L29%3A1589394748%2C1589406063%2C1589407657%2C1589395368 : 24 December 2015), Michigan > Macomb > Mt Clemens > ED 203 > image 25 of 27; citing NARA microfilm publication T9, (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., n.d.) . Line 21. Lampton, Jane, aged 71, she and parents b. Ireland. "Keeping House" for "Murry, George"(Son, aged 29, Laboror, he and parents b. Ireland).

Sources

• Unsourced family tree handed down to Brigit Bowron.
• Information received from a DNA match.