Mcmurdock

[Jarvey50]

Any mcmurdocks looking for ancestors.

[Frances_mnb]

is your family Peel based
there was a John McMuldroch m Margt(Mary in burial) Higgin  German (ie Peel) 18011219
John bur Ger 18470301 age 78 - in 1841 census indicated as Scots ; Margt bur Ger 18470912 age 84
Margt d/o John Higgin + Cath Crebbin (she had a child by George Hart bapt Rushen 17450630 but never found any marr nor burial for George but not marked as illeg ) m Patrick 17460208 - first children in Rushen but in 1756 moved to Peel (entry in Par reg c from kk christ rushen but now of peeltown) - Margt bapt Ger 17630904 (entry in par reg not 100% clear + has been read as Crellin)

John McMuldrock ( s/o John + Margt) bapt Ger 18060319 m Cath Callister Ger 18341115 - house carpenter with a large fam

[Jarvey50]

Yes Peel based. John mcmurdock married and settled in belfast. Described as a mariner. Is that another name for sailors ..? He married Elizabeth Chapman Killough co down (fishing village) in 1876 when he was 27.

[Frances_mnb]

mariner in older Manx records generally indicated a sailor who spent most of time at sea with no fixed abode  on Island - a fisherman in Manx terms until late 19th Cent was generally an inshore fisherman who followed the herring during the season (april/may to Sept) but rest of time ran a croft or had labouring jobs - read history of Herring fishery in Irish Sea - with the development of larger boats and development of other fisheries then fishing became a full time job in the late 19th C

John was the second child in family with that name - his elder sibling born 1839 died 1844

In 1864 John McMurdoch was based in Castle Street Peel (known as Big Street in earlier records) and occupied a house,yard + garden owned by a James Higgins (who lived next door)

a John McMurdo (one of many renditions of name) is noted as supplying 4000 nails for rebuilding of Peel grammar school in 1782 - probably the same John McMurdo who along with John Corrin a carpenter witnessed a marriage in Castletown in 1780 - in 1782 a John McMurdoch is noted in will of Thomas Berkley as husb of Ann Harper (see summaries on www.manxnotebook.com - malew wills

[Jarvey50]

Thanks for your help. Will keep looking

[Jimmy M]

My wife's family has a Manx McMurdock connection.