A Murray timeline
Date	Event	Source
1699	James Murray born in Banchory Ternan. Father is James Murray.	OPR
16 May 1719	James Murray (b. 1699) marries Jean Shepherd in Banchory Devenick.	OPR Scotland’s People.
4 Jul1736	John Murray baptised in Banchory Devenick, 7^th of 8 children. Tilliehowes to James Murray.	OPR
c. 1760	John Murray (b. 1736) marries Margaret [Elspeth?] Sim.
26 May 1774	Andrew Murray baptised in Banchory Devenick, 9^th of 11 children. Miln of Banchory. Earlier children from Tilliehowes. “Murray. John Murray & Elspet Sim in the Miln of Banchory had Andrew baptised.”	OPR
1790-1800	Assume in this period Andrew Murray served as a Purser with the East India Company, and was Superintendent of the Powder Mills at Hounslow.	His occupations as given on sons’ marriage certificates.
17Oct 1800	Andrew Murray (b. 1774) marries Sarah Jones in St. George, Hanover Square. “Andrew Murray of this Parish Bachelor and Sarah Jones of the Parish of St. Margaret’s Westminster Spinster were married in this church by licence this seventeenth day of October in the year 1800 by me J. Greville AM Curate. In the presence of James Twiner & FH (TH?) Thompson.”	Licence application & parish register
1801	Birth of James Murray	Peter Sykes (PS)
1804	Birth of Margaret Murray	PS
8Aug 1807	Baptism of Andrew John Murray, St George, Bloomsbury to Andrew Murray & Sarah. Father’s occupation is Hairdresser, and address is Everett St.	St. George, Bloomsbury, parish register.
16 Sep 1810	Birth of Robert Murray.	As above
4 Nov 1810	Baptism of Robert Murray.	As above
3 Jan 1813	Birth of Charles Henry Murray.	As above
31 Jan 1813	Baptism of Charles Henry Murray. “Baptisms in the Parish of St. George, Bloomsbury in the County of Middlesex, in the year 1813. Jan 31, born Jan 3, Charles Henry, son of Andrew and Sarah Murray. Everett St., St. George Bloomsbury, Hairdresser. J? Dyer.”	As above
13 Sep 1817	Birth of William Murray.	As above
12 Oct 1817	Baptism of William Murray.	As above.
1833	Death of Andrew Murray (b. 1774)	PS
1837	Andrew John Murray (b. 1807) marries Georgiana Hayward by licence in Camberwell, Surrey. She is a minor aged twenty years and upwards and marries with her mother’s consent. Licence dated 23 Feb 1837.	Licence application, English Origins.
1841	?Sarah Murray lodging house keeper in Gower St. age 68, not born in Middlesex.	Census
1841	?Charles Murray age 27 Engineer in King St., New Town, Deptford. Not born in Surrey.	Census
1841	?William Murray age 25 Engineer in Hedge Row, Woolwich Dockyard. Not born in Kent.	Census
1841	20 Sion Place, Margate. William Edwards 47 Fruiterer Hannah Edwards 50, Caroline Milleman 19, Sarah Milleman 15.	Census HO/107/468/4
27 Dec 1841	Charles Henry Murray (b. 1813) marries Caroline Augusta Milleman in St. John’s Margate.	Marriage certificate.
21 Oct 1842	Birth of William Murray to Charles Henry Murray and Caroline. Blackheath Hill, Greenwich. Died before 1851.	Birth certificate.
14 Jul 1844	Birth of Charles Frederick Murray to Charles Henry Murray and Caroline, 2 Blackheath Hill, Lewisham Parish.	Birth certificate
31 Aug 1847	Death of Sarah Murray age 78, 61 Charrington Street, Somers Town. Widow of Andrew Murray Purser in the East India Company’s service. Informant William Murray 61 Charrington St.	Death certificate.
15 Feb 1848	William Murray (b. 1817) marries Elizabeth de Normanville, St Giles, Cripplegate.	Marriage certificate.
24 Apr 1848	Birth of William Charles Murray to William Murray and Elizabeth. St Pancras.	PS, FreeBMD & 1851 census
6 Mar 1850	Birth of Sarah Jemima Murray to William Murray and Elizabeth, 21 University St., St Pancras. WM is Surveyor.	Birth certificate.
14 Feb 1851	Birth of Georgiana Jane Murray to Charles Henry Murray and Caroline, 26 Hill St. Peckham. CHM is Foreman at Engineers Manufactory.	Birth certificate
1851	21 University St. St. Pancras. William Murray 33 Civil Engineer Elizabeth 32, William C. 2, Sarah J. 1. also pupil Henery Brown, 18, born Slough, Bucks.	Census HO107/1494 336? p. 23
1851	26 Hill St., Peckham Charles Murray 36 Foreman Engineer, Caroline 29, Charles 6, Georgiana 2m.	Census HO107/1581
4 Jan 1852	Death of Georgiana Jane Murray (b. 1851), Arnold’s Cottages, St. Mary Newington, Surrey. Age 11 months, daughter of Charles Murray, an Engineer. Pneumonia and convulsions. The informant is William Murray, present at the death, of 1 Church Yard Row, Newington.	Death certificate
19 Mar 1852	Birth of Harry Andrew Murray to William Murray and Elizabeth, 1 Church Yard Row, Newington, Surrey. William is a surveyor, and the informant.	Birth certificate
23 Aug 1852 – 23 Jan 1853	William and family on Mayflower to Adelaide.	PS
C1853	Birth of third child to CHM and Caroline? Daughter Sarah?	PS
20 Apr 1855	Birth of Harriet Eliza Paver to Joseph Paver and Rebecca Paver formerly Greenway. He is an Oil Miller and their address is Beavor Lane, Hammersmith.	Birth certificate
10 Feb 1856	Birth of Margaret Hannah Murray to Charles Henry Murray and Caroline, 2 Oakley Cottages, Old Kent Road. CHM is a Railway Engineer.	Birth certificate
18 Aug 1856	Birth of Robert Louis Howell Murray to William Murray and Elizabeth in Adelaide.	PS & IGI
1857	Chain pump patent to Charles Henry Murray of Oakley Cottages, Old Kent Road.	Document
26 Sep 1858	Birth of Charles Edward Travers Francis Murray to William Murray and Elizabeth in Adelaide.	PS & IGI
1859 - 1861	1859-1861 William and family return to London. Not in Northwick Terrace on 1861 census or apparently anywhere else.	PS
1861	22 Windsor Grove, Camberwell Charles Murray 45 Machinist, Caroline 37, Charles 16 Mechanical draughtsman, Margaret 5. Alice Millman, niece, 11, Middx., Pimlico. Andrew Foster, Cousin, Unm., 40, Screw cutter, Middlesex	Census RG9/388
9 Nov 1861	Birth of Andrew Hodges Murray to William Murray and Elizabeth, 13 Northwick Terrace, Marylebone. William is Civil Engineer.	Birth certificate
12 Nov 1861	Birth announcement in The Times. “On the 9^th inst., at 13 Northwick-terrace, Maida-hill, London, the wife of Mr. William Murray, C.E., of Adelaide, South Australia of a son.”	The Times
18 Nov 1861	Death of Elizabeth Murray	FreeBMD
21 Nov 1861	Death announcement in The Times. “On the 18^th inst., at 13 Northwick-terrace, Maida-hill, London, Elizabeth Murray, the beloved and deeply lamented wife of William Murray, C.E., of Adelaide, South Australia, in her 43d. year.”	The Times
21 Nov 1861	William Murray purchases a burial plot (no. 16859 where Elizabeth was buried.) for 5 guineas in All Souls’ Cemetery, Kensal Green. Did he at this stage intend to stay in England?	Copies of documents.
31 Jan 1862	Deed of grave. Handwritten statement on the Grant of exclusive right of burial certificate: William Murray now of 37 Torrington Square, Bloomsbury signs over the three plots (16859, 16901 and 16902 – when did he buy the other two?) to his brother Charles Henry Murray, Engineer, of 7 Gloucester Cottages, Park Road, Peckham. In William’s handwriting, and with his signature and Caroline Murray’s signature as witness. [The plots were only used for the burial of Elizabeth.]	Copy of document
5 Feb – 23 May 1862	William and family go to Melbourne on Anglesea.	PS
Jun 1862	William and family go back to Adelaide on SS Havilah.	PS
7 Jul 1863	William Murray marries Elizabeth Bishop in Adelaide (Port Lincoln?). One of the witnesses is Georgiana Murray, William’s sister-in-law.	PS
1865-1877	Charles Henry Murray patents: address is Loman St. See list at end of timeline. Following is from Morris’s Business Directory of London 1884, Part 1. “MIDDLETON THOMAS & CO engineers &c Loman st., Southwark SE. Sole manufacturers of Murray’s patent brickmaking machinery.” Also adverts in The Times from this period. “MURRAY’S PATENT BRICKMAKING MACHINERY. Sole manufacturers, THOMAS MIDDLETON and Co., Engineers and Millwrights, Loman-street, Southwark SE.”	London Gazette and The Times
1871	1 Olney St., St. Mary Newington. Charles H. Murray 55 Engineer CE, Caroline A. 43, Margaret H. 15.	Census RG 10 615/ 97
1871	School of Military Engineering, Gillingham, Kent. Charles Frederic Murray 24, Sapper Royal Engineers.	Census RG 10 913
1871	181 Albany Road, Camberwell Mary Ann Payne – Head – W – 94 – Annuitant – Colchester, Essex. (Believed to be sister of Georgiana’s mother Sarah.) Andrew John Murray – Nephew – Mar – 61 – Special magistrate of S. Australia. Georgiana Murray – Niece – 53	Census RG 10 736
1870s	Charles Frederick Murray (b. 1844) in Bermuda with Royal Engineers?	Christopher Murray (CTM)
22 Aug 1875	Death of William Murray (b. 1817) in Adelaide, S. Australia.	PS
23 Apr 1879	Margaret Hannah Murray marries George Bryce in Croydon, Surrey. Her address is Addiscombe, and CHM is an Engineer. Witnesses are Charles Henry Murray, Kate Disney and Janet Gow Bryce (George’s sister).	Marriage certificate.
1 Feb 1880	Marriage of Harriet Eliza Paver to Alfred Jeffery, widower, licensed victualler, 20 Yardley St. Clerkenwell. Her address is 480 Rotherhithe St.
1880	Death of Andrew John Murray (b. 1807) in Lambeth.	FreeBMD
1881	Fairlight Cottage, Grant Rd., Croydon Charles Henry Murray 65 Engineer Caroline Murray 57, Maud Bryce, granddaughter 6 months.	Census RG11/813
1881	High Street, Hornsey. George Bryce 36 Wine/Spirit/Beer merchant, Margaret Bryce 25.	Census RG11/1379
1881	172 Southwark Bridge Rd. Charles Murray – Lodger – 33 – Engineer E&M [Charles Frederick b. 1844] Joseph Paver – Lodger – 23 – Engineer E&M [Harriet Eliza’s brother – so that’s how they met I guess]	Census RG11/528
1881	20 Yardley St., Wilmington Arms. Alfred Jeffrey, Head, 35, Licensed victualler. Eliza Jeffrey, Wife, 25. John Jeffrey, Brother, 33.	Census RG11/350 86 22
1881	57 Chase, Clapham Georgiana Murray Widow 63 Annuitant	Census RG11/631
13 Aug 1882	Death of Alfred Jeffrey at Wilmington Arms. Diarrhoea and vomiting 5 days, informant is HE Jeffrey (widow).	Death certificate
21 Jan 1884	Birth of Charles Frank Murray to Charles Frederick Murray and Harriet Eliza, 60 Canterbury Rd., Deptford.	Birth certificate
23 Mar 1884	Charles Frederick Murray marries Harriet Eliza Jeffery (née Paver), All Saints, Hatcham. Both give their address as 60 Canterbury Rd., and CFM and CHM are both described as Engineer. (So who was holding the baby?) Witnesses are Joseph Paver (her father or brother) and Frank Sidney Paver (her brother).	Marriage certificate.
29 Mar 1886	Birth of Catherine Murray to Charles Frederick Murray and Harriet Eliza, 75 Abbeyfield Road, Rotherhithe. CFM is Engine fitter.	Birth certificate
16 Mar 1887	Death of Caroline Augusta Murray in Upper Holloway, Islington at the house of her daughter Margaret Hannah Bryce, 33 Gresley Rd.	Death certificate.
21 May 1888	Mihaly Molnar marries Elizabeth Alice Cattley in Christ Church, Camberwell. He is a Furrier, and both give their address as 1 Trinby Street. His father is also Mihaly, a furrier, and hers is Isaac Cattley Dec. [Really Isaac Catt …] The witnesses are Henry Rossner, a naturalised Hungarian wholesale furrier, and Louisa Cattley Elizabeth’s mother.	Marriage certificate
4 Oct 1888	Birth of George Henry Murray to Charles Frederick Murray and Harriet Eliza.	CTM
20 Mar 1889	Birth of Nellie Yren Molnar to Elizabeth Alice Molnar formerly Cattley and Mihaly Molnar, 70 Falmouth Rd., Newington.	Birth certificate
1890	Birth of Margaret Murray to Charles Frederick Murray and Harriet Eliza.	CTM
1890	Death of George Henry Murray age 2.	FreeBMD
1891	85 Lr. Addiscombe Rd., Croydon George Bryce - Head – 46 – Wine merchant Margaret H. 34, Maud C. 10, Henry G. 8, Norah M. 4, Gordon M. 1, Charles H. Murray – Father-in-law, Wdr., 77 – Retired civil engineer, Harriet Jones – companion to CHM – Wid. – 52 – Sick nurse.	Census RG12/593
1891	1 Olney St., Newington Charles F. Murray 44 Engineer, Harriet E. Murray 35, Charles F. 7, Catherine 5, Margaret 1.	Census RG12/356
1891	175 Upland Rd, Camberwell [East Dulwich] Georgiana Murray 73 Living on own means.	Census RG12/471
2 Nov 1891	Birth of Joseph Henry Murray to Charles Frederick Murray and Harriet Eliza, 1 Olney St., Walworth.	Birth certificate
2 Dec 1891	Death of Charles Henry Murray age 77 in Croydon, 85 Lower Addiscombe Rd. Inventor and Mechanical Engineer, George Bryce informant.	Death certificate
1891	CHM’s will – 2 trusts set up, one for Margaret and George Bryce, one for Charles Frederick and Harriet. Also a payment of £50 to Andrew Hodges de Normanville Murray, but doesn’t say why; obviously the two families were still in contact.	Will & London Gazette
1892	Death of Andrew Hodges de Normanville Murray at sea. Was he returning to Adelaide having given legal advice on CHM’s will?	PS
19 Jun 1892	Death of Charles Frederic Murray (b. 1844) at Queens Arms Tavern, Court Hill, Lewisham, Beer retailer and engine fitter, heart disease and exhaustion. H.E. Murray informant.	Death certificate
24 May 1894	Birth of Emma Eliza Ingersoll to Eliza Ingersoll late Murray formerly Paver and Frederick Ingersoll. 3 Nightingale Grove, Hither Green, Lewisham.	Birth certificate
6 Oct 1897	Death of Margaret Hannah Bryce, Consumption Hospital, Brompton, Kensington. TB. George Bryce informant, 39 Cowley Rd., Leytonstone.	Death certificate
1897	Birth of Louisa Ingersoll to Eliza Ingersoll late Murray formerly Paver and Frederick Ingersoll.	FreeBMD
14 Jun 1900	Death of Elizabeth Molnar, wife of Mihaly Molnar, a furrier of 3 New Cross Rd. Southeastern Hospital Deptford. Louisa Cattley informant, 248 Commercial Rd.	Death certificate
1901	27 Holbeach Rd. Lewisham Frederick Inkersole – Head – M- 46 – Gardener – Lewisham Harriet Inkersole – Wife – M- 45 – Washerwoman – Rotherhithe Charles F. Murray – Step-son – 17 – Butcher – Walworth Catherine Murray 15, Margaret Murray 11, Joseph H. Murray 9 – step children. Emma E. Inkersole – daughter – 6, Louisa Inkersole – daughter – 4. Only occasion family is called Inkersole, properly Ingersoll.	Census RG13/553 71
1901	Death of Georgiana Murray 84 Camberwell	FreeBMD
1901 Sep Q	Birth of Alice Rose Ingersoll to Eliza Ingersoll late Murray formerly Paver and Frederick Ingersoll.	FreeBMD
1904	Death of Emma Eliza Ingersoll in Lewisham.	FreeBMD
22 Jan 1906	Eliza Murray marries Frederick Riley Ingersoll in St. Luke’s Church, Deptford. He is a grave-digger, a bachelor of 22 Windale Rd., and she is a widow of 169 Sanders Rd., Catford. Witnesses are James and Rebecca Page, [Harriet] Eliza’s sister and her husband.	Marriage Certificate
31 Oct 1913	Death of Mihaly Molnar in Camberwell Infirmary. TB and exhaustion. Furrier journeyman of 10 Lugard Rd. Informant is Nellie Molnar, daughter, 4 Engleheart Rd., Catford.	Death certificate
4 Jan 1914	Charles Frank Murray marries Nellie Erehn Molnar in St. Laurence, Catford. He is 29 and a Greengrocer, and both give their address as 4 Engleheart Rd. Witnesses are Catherine Murray (his sister), and James J.E. Page (his uncle, the husband of Harriet’s sister Rebecca).	Marriage Certificate
26 Jan 1914	Harriet Eliza Ingersoll dies in Lewisham Union Infirmary. Wife of Frederick Ingersoll grave-digger of 4 Engleheart Rd., Catford. Informant is C.F. Murray, son, 4 Engleheart Rd.	Death certificate
1914 Mar Q	Catherine Murray (b. 1886) marries Edward Dowdall.	BMD Index
31 May 1914	Joseph Henry Murray marries Jenny Atkins in the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Catford. His address is 4 Engleheart Rd. and the witnesses are William Atkins (her father probably) and Margaret Murray (his sister).	Marriage certificate
1914 Dec Q	Birth of Margaret Murray to Charles Frank and Nellie Murray, Camberwell.	BMD Index
24 May 1916	Birth of Nellie Murray to Charles Frank and Nellie Murray, 87 Fitzalan Street.	Birth certificate
8 Apr 1917	Marriage of Louisa Ingersoll to Charles John Robert Solly in Lee, Kent.	Marriage certificate
1918	National roll of the Great War. P. 143 MURRAY, C.F., Sapper, Royal Engineers. [Charles Frank Murray (b. 1884). Medal card: Murray, Charles F. RE, The Queen’s Regiment, Labour C., RE. Victory medal and General Service medal. He attributed his gradual loss of sight to having been gassed in the war. But as glaucoma has been diagnosed among his descendants one wonders if it was this that caused it. Asked my ophthalmologist, and he said gassing would certainly have aggravated the condition …
27 May 1919	Birth of Grace Murray to Charles Frank and Nellie Murray, 87 Fitzalan Street.	BMD Index
24 Jan 1921	Birth of Charles Frank Murray to Charles Frank and Nellie Murray, 87 Fitzalan Street.	BMD Index
31 Mar 1921	Death of Frederick Henry [should be Riley] Ingersoll, 63 years of 38 Knowles Hill Crescent, Lewisham, Gardener, jobbing. Informant L. Solly, daughter, 111 Taunton Rd. Lee.	Death certificate
1922	Birth of George A. Murray to Charles Frank and Nellie Murray, 87 Fitzalan Street.	BMD Index
1923	Death of George A. Murray, 87 Fitzalan Street.	BMD Index
1924	Marriage of Alice Rose Ingersoll to Bob T. Lemon	FreeBMD
1925	Birth of Peggy Murray to Charles Frank and Nellie Murray, 87 Fitzalan Street.	BMD Index
19 Dec 1928	Birth of Christopher Thomas Murray to Charles Frank and Nellie Murray, 87 Fitzalan Street.	BMD Index
29 Apr 1931	Death of Nellie Murray (née Molnar, b.1889), St. Thomas’s Hospital. Of 87 Fitzalan Street, SE 11, wife of Charles Frank Murray a butcher’s machine man. Informant is C.F. Murray 87 Fitzalan St.	Death certificate
1935	Marriage of Margaret Murray to Frederick Hacker in Lambeth.	BMD Index
20 May 1940	Charles Frank Murray, Private 6090205 2/7^th Bn., The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey) died Monday 20^th May 1940, age 19. He is buried in Saleux Communal Cemetery, Somme, France, Grave 5.	Commonwealth War Graves Commission
4 Oct 1940	87 Fitzalan St. received direct hit, the family home since 1914 was totally destroyed.	N. Murray
1943	Marriage of Peggy Murray to William Jordan in Holsworthy in Devon.	BMD Index
1946	Marriage of Grace Murray to Bruce Clark in Wandsworth.	BMD Index
3 Jul 1947	Marriage of Nellie Murray to Sidney Charles Bradley in Winchester in Hampshire.