Thankyou Gavin, I suppose I should have mentioned that it was family oral history which put the Birth at Woodside. William MURRAY Bap 7 April 1801, at Skene, ( assume to be Banffshire ), died 1879 38 North Prioadford , ( ? spelling), Old Machar, was the father of William Duff MURRAY. Old Machar also became part of family oral history. William Murray 1861 was age 58 years, ( apparently Baptised 1801,) living 233 Stricket Road, ? Aberdeen City. His son, William Duff MURRAY born 1836, subsequently named his farm in the Bay Of Islands near Matauri Bay , New Zealand, as Woodside Farm. he died 5 December 1886 at Woodside Farm. Thankyou & I will check my paper files, Mary -----Original Message----- From: aberdeen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aberdeen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Gavin Bell Sent: Thursday, 26 November 2009 10:00 p.m. To: aberdeen@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Duff MURRAY Mary Legarth wrote: > The MURRAY family that I research, has William Duff MURRAY Baptised / Born > 1836 Woodside, Aberdeen , Scotland, I was a little surprised to see a birth/baptism shown as being recorded in "Woodside" in 1836, because at that date, it was part of the parish of Old Machar, only becoming a 'quoad sacra' parish in 1862 (by which time registration of births, deaths and marriages had passed to the civil Registrar). So I checked the IGI, and find that, while the birth of a William Duff Murray is indeed recorded on 9th April 1836, it is recorded as happening in "Aberdeen" (which was also not, at that date, the name of a parish) and that the entry is marked: "Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. No additional information is available." Now, it is quite possible for there to be documentary evidence for a birth/baptism that is independent of the Old parish Registers - but unless you know what that evidence is, I would have serious doubts about the accuracy of the claimed date and place of birth for William. Gavin Bell