This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McMurry Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0E0.2ACEB/80 Message Board Post: I am also interested in finding a copy of the book "McMurry Family;Descendants of William and Mary McMurry, 1750-1986. Does anyone have any information on it?

The book is out of print. I have a copy. If I can do a look-up, let me know. What is your line? Rosemary Birchfield Filyaw jfilyaw2009@charter.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <rlpreston@msn.com> To: <MCMURRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 3:54 PM Subject: [McMurry] Book on William and Mary McMurry from Ireland > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: McMurry > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0E0.2ACEB/80 > > Message Board Post: > > I am also interested in finding a copy of the book "McMurry Family;Descendants of William and Mary McMurry, 1750-1986. Does anyone have any information on it? >

Good Morning, Last year Rosemary mentioned having a copy of this book. First, I'd like to know the name of the author. Then, I'd be interested to know if this particular book tells anything of my Ggrandmother, Gillie McMURRY (1866-1914) and her sister, Florence McMURRY, who are said to have been children of Frank McMURRY and Annetta PITT, by my copy of the book, "A Family Called Fort". Leslie of ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rosemary Filyaw" <jfilyaw2009@charter.net> To: <MCMURRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 7:33 PM Subject: Re: [McMurry] Book on William and Mary McMurry from Ireland > The book is out of print. I have a copy. If I can do a look-up, let me > know. What is your line? > Rosemary Birchfield Filyaw > jfilyaw2009@charter.net

The book was by Marilyn Bone. She actually compiled the information from several other people on their lines. I have been told that there are lots of mistakes in the book but I can't tell you what they are. I did not see anything on your Florence or Gillie McMurry. I may have missed something but with what I had to go on, I didn't find them. Perhaps someone else will have the information that your need. Just keep digging. ;-) Rosemary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leslie B. Kohler" <Aug67@att.net> To: <MCMURRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 9:38 AM Subject: [McMurry] McMurry Family: Descendants of William and Mary McMurry, 1750-1986 > Good Morning, > > Last year Rosemary mentioned having a copy of this book. > First, I'd like to know the name of the author. > > Then, I'd be interested to know if this particular book tells > anything of my Ggrandmother, Gillie McMURRY (1866-1914) > and her sister, Florence McMURRY, who are said to have > been children of Frank McMURRY and Annetta PITT, by my > copy of the book, "A Family Called Fort". > > Leslie > of > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rosemary Filyaw" <jfilyaw2009@charter.net> > To: <MCMURRY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 7:33 PM > Subject: Re: [McMurry] Book on William and Mary McMurry from Ireland > > > > The book is out of print. I have a copy. If I can do a look-up, let me > > know. What is your line? > > Rosemary Birchfield Filyaw > > jfilyaw2009@charter.net >

I have a copy of "McMurry Family" and am a descendant of Agnes (not Mary) & William McMurray. There are no more copies available other than those in major libraries. You might try inter-library loan to borrow McMurry Family to read. However, don't get your hopes up, there is very little documentation to support the claims in the book. It's more of a primer for researchers who want to go beyond the book's basics and prove a relationships to this large McMurray family. Some examples of the built-in errors in McMurry Family: The William McMurry (McMurray) referred to in the book is actually the son of an older William McMurray. This son's wife is probably named Agnes, surely not Mary. The name Mary came from some land William (the son) owned on the Mary (now South) River on the floor of the Shenandoah Valley. The misspelling of William McMurray's name as McMurry is a common error and Marilyn Bone, the editor, can be forgiven. The spelling was a common error of past enumerators and one that caused several of the sons of Agnes & William to allow their surname to be changed to McMurry. Please don't be discouraged, Bone's McMurry Family has some good information in it, especially for the generations that followed the earliest settlers. My ancestor, William's son James didn't fare too well, only 24 pages of history out of a total of 448 pages in the book. I first saw the book in the Genealogy Room (Thomas Jefferson Bldg) of the Library of Congress. Unfortunately, the library doesn't participate in the inter-library loan program. Your local library can do a search for you to see which libraries have copies of the book. I believe their is a copy in the library in Frankfort, Ky. In the meantime, I'll be happy to look up any connections you might have to the family. Good hunting, Don McMurray -----Original Message----- From: rlpreston@msn.com [mailto:rlpreston@msn.com] Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 4:55 PM To: MCMURRY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [McMurry] Book on William and Mary McMurry from Ireland This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McMurry Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0E0.2ACEB/80 Message Board Post: I am also interested in finding a copy of the book "McMurry Family;Descendants of William and Mary McMurry, 1750-1986. Does anyone have any information on it? ______________________________