downeaster
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My GGG grandfather was a David Murray, emigrated to the Miramichi River Valley of New Brunswick ca. 1820. His wife was Margaret or Marget Landells, christened 27 Apr. 1803 at Mousewald, Dumfries. The were burned out by the great Mirimichi forest fire of 1825. The tale passed down to me is that Margaret, with the four children (boys) then living, returned to Midtown, Cummertrees and stayed about a year while David relocated to Bathurst, New Brunswick. She returned to Canada with the two youngest boys, said to have been Charles and John, leaving the two oldest, said to have been Arthur (I doubt the Arthur, appears to have been a highly unlikely Scottish name) and William, at Midtown. The had at least seven more children. Margaret's brother, David Landells, 1806-1891 and his wife Annie Dobie 1813-1894 m. 8 Oct. 1830 Torthorwald, Dumfries subsequently (ca. 1835-1841) emigrated to the Bathurst area. Their first child, Janet Landells, was said to have been b. at Midtown ca. 1835. Does any of this seem familiar to anyone? Can anybody give me a clue as to what family David Murray may have come from? East Howcreek (which borders Midtown) perhaps? Not much information on this side of the Atlantic except a couple of census entries that confilct regarding birth year, one ca. 1791, the other ca. 1800.
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