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From: "P.L.Murray" <>
Subject: Enquiry Regarding Murray Family
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 23:09:17 +0200


For some time I have been researching the genealogy of my family, the
Murrays.

Our progenitor was John Murray, a Scots mechant and whale-fishery
owner who arrived at the Cape around 1797 and died in 1815. His only
child, a son also named John, married Martha Gysbertha de Milander
and was father of 8 children. John #2 was also a merchant and
whale-fishery owner and lived in Cape Town, but moved to Stellenbosch
at about 1830. In 1854 he was a witness to the baptism of one of his
grandchildren.

I would be very glad to hear from anyone who has come across any
record of the death of John Murray (#2) or any other information
concerning this family. I would also like to make contact with any
descendant of John's second son, Robert William Murray who had 4 sons
named: Henry Heron, Samuel, Hermanus Johannes and Johannes Gysbertus.

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