Grauxe

[Clannessie]

Jane Murdock was born in 1822. There is a record I think on LDS site and it says she was born in London. But if I remember correctly when someone wrote that post on Rootsweb...the date was off for the father, Benjamin. My Benjamin Murdock was born in NS about 1796.
Jane married a William Harvie or Harvey as I think it became in the states. After her husband died and a few of her children she moved to Yakama, Washington, USA either after or with the rest of her children. She died there on April 8, 1915 and her body was sent back to NS.
I have a couple of newspaper articles on her death. One states her Grandfather was the Rev James Murdock...first Presbyterian minister in NS. That corresponds with my info. The info on her children, the name is spelled Harvie. By her death it is Harvey. The article also states she was born in Newcastle, England and left with her family to NS when she was very young. I have no clue what year that was. I can bet it was before 1841 then    with my luck!

Interesting that Newcastle is coming around again with family names. My Savages moved there around 1900 from Milngavie, Scotland. My Grandmother's family on my Mom's side. Another daughter was born there in 1901. They moved to South Africa about 1902 or 1903. I have been to Newcastle twice now...I have a Welsh cousin who lives there 

Karen

[Clannessie]

Jane was born in 1833 NOT 1822...what I get for typing in the wee early morning hours!

I have a guess at why Benjamin Murdock might have been in England from NS. His older sister, Sussanh Murdock Duffus had a daughter, Susan. Susan married Samuel Cunard of the Cunrad Shiiping Line. Maybe Benjamin worked on one of those ships...went to England, stayed, married, had kids and then returned home to NS. Later his two sons, James and John ended up in New York on the 1950 census as "ship carpenters". John and Benjamin were farmers in Port Huron, Michigan by the 1860 census.
He might also have joined the Navy. An older brother was  Lieutenant, K.N. (not sure what the KN stands for).

Just had another look at the newspaper article on Janes death in Yakama, Washington. It said she was the former Jane de Ferris Murdock. Have no clue what de Ferris is for...maybe something to do with her mother, Margarett raruxe or Graux being French?

Am tired of so many mysteries...can't anything be simple? 

Karen

[Clannessie]

I am now answering my own questions!  The "K.N" was a typo ...read it again on another site...it's RN...Royal Navy...duh