With apologies for taking this discussion to far, I just want to say that even among silbings in families the name McMurray/McMurry is changed. In researching the Rutherford Co. NC McMurrays, most of whom were all from the same family line, one finds spellings of McMurray, McMurry and even a possible McCurry (Probably a different family). The various spellings occurred in Census records, bible records, legal documents, etc. and some are still present today, although most of the family members use McMurray. I have an interesting situation in that my Callahan ancestor married a McMurray in Rutherford Co. but his brothers who migrated to GA had children who married McMurrys. I believe they were all related somehow. My Callahans also have various inter-family spellings of Calahan, Callahan and Callihan, even to the point of claiming that the different spellings designate different families not related to each other. Now if anyone really wants to get this going what about Vanzant/Van Zandt/Vinzant/Van Sant/etc., etc. etc.