Diane Is it possible that this is your Elizabeth Murray married to Alex McPherson? If so I have a great deal of info on this family. ELIZABETH MURRAY [3/8/1815-24/5/1879] Married ALEXANDER McPHERSON Elizabeth Anderson Murray (Betty) was born in Brora, daughter of Angus Murray and Elizabeth McDonald. She married Alexander on 10 April 1840 at Pictou, Nova Scotia, having moved there with her parents in 1831. Betty and Alexander had eleven children, the eldest of whom was: ELIZABETH McPHERSON, born 17 April 1841 at West River. Elizabeth's twin brother, Hugh, lived only ten days. She grew up on the family farm at Watervale. In 1866 she married George Sutherland, farmer of Earltown, son of Alexander Sutherland and Elizabeth Baillie. They had five children before Elizabeth's early death in 1882. Another daughter of Betty and Alexander was ANNIE, born 1843. She married Reverend Angus Mackenzie, a Presbyterian minister. She is buried with her husband in the Ridgefield Cemetery, Washington, U.S.A.. Betty Murray is buried in Baillie Cemetery, Pictou. Christine Highland Hearts http://www.highlandhearts.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Bill & Diane Geddes [mailto:bgeddes@ameritech.net] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 12:01 AM To: SCT-SUTHERLAND-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Grant's Interests Grant, we have Andersons and Mathesons from Sutherlandshire as follows, also Alex McPherson born in Clyne who married Elizabeth Murray: John Anderson, b. 1795, married Ellen McIntosh, b. 1805. Children were John, Hugh, Catherine, Gilbert, Jane and Margaret. George Matheson, b. 1808, married Isabella McKay, b. 1805. Children were John (m. Catherine McCall), Jane, Angus, George (m. Ellen McKay), Donald, James and Robert (m. Jane Murray). Alexander McPherson, b. 1808 in Clyne, married Elizabeth Murray in 1839 in Ontario, Canada. Children were Catherine (m. Hugh Fraser), Ann (m. Robert Geddes), Jennet, Margaret, Robert and Margaret (m. John E. McKay). Elizabeth Murray may be the daughter of Angus Murray and Elizabeth/Eliza Mackay and was born in Dornoch. Any connections? Regards, Diane Geddes ------- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version 6.0.250/Virus Databse: 123 - Release Date 5/31/01 ==== SCT-SUTHERLAND Mailing List ==== You may, at times, wish to check out previous messages to this list. You can do this at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/SCT-SUTHERLAND-L/ ============================== Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.263 / Virus Database: 135 - Release Date: 6/22/01 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.263 / Virus Database: 135 - Release Date: 6/22/01