This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DONALD, MURRAY, LESLIE, DAVIDSON, FARQUHARSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ReC.2ACI/2772.1 Message Board Post: I do hope that this family connects as I am looking for any info' & of course can share the New Zealand links. In Aberdeen, Concert Hall, on October 19th 1830, " Mary DONALD , Daughter of William DONALD , Farmer in the Parish of Alvah, " married William MURRAY, a Flesher in Aberdeen. Witnesses James CAIE & Peter MURRAY. The aboved from the OPR. Old Machar, In 1836, William MURRAY , Loanhead, & his Spouse, Mary Donaldson , had a son, William. It seems that Donald & Donaldson, are often interchangable depending on the hearing / accent etc., of the recorder of the time. Could this William DONALD be the William that you mention ? The son, WiLLIAM , of William & Mary ( Donald ), Murray , emigrated to New Zealand, in the 1800's. Became a farmer , in Northland, ( north of Auckland ) . He married Mary Ann Leslie, from Co. Kerry, in N.Z., an arranged marriage, they have a great many descendants in N.Z.