Don, Do you have anything about any of these people going to PA? There is a Fletcher McMurray in my family. Margie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don McMurray" <don@norrishouse.com> To: <MCMURRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:15 AM Subject: RE: [McMurry] McMurry family book > Marilyn Bone sold me the last copy she had of "McMurry Family" and you are > right about discrepancies and errors in the book. Unfortunately, very > little documentation is included but the book is a good compilation of the > early research by Earnest I. Lewis and W. Fletcher Guy McMurry. I have a > lot of documentation now on the earliest McMurray men and their wives. > Including, surprisingly, proof that the William McMurry in the book was > actually William McMurray, the son of an older William McMurray. The older > William lived with two his sons, Samuel and William, up on the Cowpasture > River near Iron Gate east of Clifton Forge, Va. The other three sons were > down on the floor of the valley. > > The family history supplied by Lewis & W.F.G. McMurray tells the story of > William bringing his wife and five sons from Ulster to America prior to 1749 > when we find the family scattered in the Shenandoah Valley (Augusta Co.) of > Virginia. The family history is correct but off by a generation. If anyone > is interested in the family from 1749 on let me know. > > Regards, Don McMurray > > Shannon, Pam & Don McMurray > The Norris House Inn & Stone House Tea Room (www.norrishouse.com) > Thomas Birkby House - A Meeting Place (www.birkbyhouse.com) > 108-9 Loudoun St., SW, Leesburg, VA 20175 > Tel. NHI: 703.777.1806 E-mail: don@norrishouse.com > Tel. TBH: 703.779.2933 E-mail: info@birkbyhouse.com > Fax: 703.771.8051 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: nfn01995@naples.net [mailto:nfn01995@naples.net] > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 10:34 AM > To: MCMURRY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [McMurry] McMurry family book > > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0E0.2ACEB/36.43 > > Message Board Post: > > The book is "McMurry Family; Descendants of William and Mary McMurry, > 1750-1986," edited by Marilyn A. Bone, originally published in 1987 by > Gateway Press. It's been out of print for years. I don't have a copy > either, so please don't ask me for lookups! > > I have seen parts of it, though, and it was a very worthy effort. > Unfortunately much of the material was compiled at a time when research was > much harder to do and resources not as widely available as they are now, so > some of the information, particularly about the very earliest generation, is > inaccurate. > > ______________________________ > > >