thanks N. Girl. well i think my mystery is solved but does not help me in respects to your Murray/ Shaw connection.
Mine is a much later connection and probably of unrelated.
1891 Census - RG12/336 Folio 54 Page 39
My William and Jane E. A. McMurray (maiden name Johnson) - had a daughter Jane (sister to my Great geat grandfather William Mc Murray) who's first marriage was to a Frederick Shaw - hence the grand Daughtetr Norah who lived with William and Jane in the 1901 census.
My William did have a brother James born after him - aprox 1850( don't have my notes in front of me) and apparently he emigrated to the states and maybe owned a bar?
william Mc Murray's parents were John (born 1810)and Catherine Mc Murray both of Ireland but I do not know what town they were from. rumors aroung Antrim and Mayo - quite a difference.
More family rumors- somewhere back there they are supposed to be mcMurrays of Scotland but i can not even pin them down in Ireland yet!
Great site! Glad to be here! Hope to find my McMurrays