{"id":837,"date":"2021-07-02T21:20:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T21:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/?p=837"},"modified":"2023-09-09T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T20:54:00","slug":"children-of-michael-catherine-murray-of-barnamaghery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/2021\/07\/02\/children-of-michael-catherine-murray-of-barnamaghery\/","title":{"rendered":"Children of Michael & Catherine Murray of Barnamaghery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Children of Michael and Catherine Murray of Barnamaghery<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n
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Murray Farm in Barnamaghery, Killinchy, Down, Ireland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Michael Murray (1799-1865) was a farmer in county Down, Ireland. He and his wife, Catherine (nee) Murray (1802-1882), had 10 children, five boys and five girls. In 1888 Hugh Murray, their seventh child, was a wagon maker and undertaker residing in Potosi, Washington County, Missouri, USA.[1]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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One Son of Michael & Catherine Murray<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Question<\/strong>: Who were Michael and Catherine Murray\u2019s other nine children?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This question is challenging for two reasons. Firstly, civil registration of births began in Ireland in 1864, a few decades after the children were born. Secondly, the family was Catholic and parish sacramental registers that might identify the children\u2019s baptisms were inconsistently kept and preserved in Ireland in the 1800s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adding to these challenges was the fact that only the Irish county of residence for Hugh and his parents was known at the outset, namely county Down. Identifying the townland and civil parish for Michael Murray\u2019s farm in County Down was an essential key to unlock Irish records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In mid-19th<\/sup> century Ireland, there were 70 civil parishes and 40 Catholic parishes within county Down.[2]<\/a> Civil parishes in Ireland are administrative units that in the 1800s generally corresponded to the parishes of the established Church, namely the (Anglican) Church of Ireland. Civil parishes are comprised of townlands and many records of historical and genealogical interest are organized by townland and\/or civil parish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catholic parishes in Ireland are organized by diocese and often cross civil parish boundaries. In some cases, the Catholic parish registers identify an individual\u2019s townland in baptismal and marriage entries. Hugh Murray\u2019s 1838 baptism was recorded in the baptismal register of the parish of Carrickmannon and Saintfield. The register also recorded BM (Barnamaghery) as the family\u2019s residence.[3]<\/a> Barnamaghery townland is in the civil parish of Killinchy in county Down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These two location facts, townland and civil parish, enabled research access to Irish valuation, land, probate, census, and civil registration records for the family. Additionally, detailed obituaries in Irish newspapers proved vital to identifying three of the female children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, including Hugh Murray, nine of the ten children of Michael Murray and Catherine Murray were discovered. Additionally, 47 of their grandchildren were identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford & Gasconade Counties, Missouri<\/em> (Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1888), 1006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> Brian Mitchell, A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland<\/em> (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2002), pp. 63 & 66.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> Kathleen Murray, \u201cA Farmer in County Down,\u201d Kathleen Murray, My Family History<\/em>, 27 March 2017 (http:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/2017\/03\/21\/michael-murray-northern-ireland\/<\/a> : accessed 10 February 2021), para 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Murray (1799-1865) was a farmer in county Down, Ireland. He and his wife, Catherine (nee) Murray (1802-1882), had 10 children, five boys and five girls. In 1888 Hugh Murray, their seventh child, was a wagon maker and undertaker residing in Potosi, Washington County, Missouri, USA.[1] Question: Who were Michael and Catherine Murray\u2019s other nine … Continue reading “Children of Michael & Catherine Murray of Barnamaghery”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-molony"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}