August 13, 2002:
Hello Al:

If that is your picture in a suit, you look a lot like the Daley family
for sure.  Any relation?  I was looking at the 1879 Census for Osgoode
township.  It lists many Murrays in Osgoode at that time and I am pretty
sure they are all related somehow.  The Murray I am related to is Joseph
Murray from Concession X.  He was my great great grandfather.  His son
was Arthur Murray (my grandfather) and Arthur's son is Howard Murray (my
grandfather) and Jack (John Joseph) Murray (my father).  I believe that
Joseph Murray married a widow who's husband was last named Hall.  He
died on the Ottawa River.  She was a Methodist.

My question is this, I can't relate Joseph Murray in the 1879 Census to
the JMR Murray tombstone that is at St. Catharines Cemetary in
Metcalfe.  I also cannot figure out if these Murray's were famine
immigrants or Catholic uprising immigrants.  I have heard many stories.
I know that my family of Murray were Catholic.  I know that they
originally settled in Osgoode on the 10th Concession Osgoode but do not
know much else.  My dad's father was Howard Murray and he had sisters
(Ethel, Edna and May).  He was married to Elizabeth Daly who is related
to Michael Daley who contributes to this site.

I would really like to know when they emigrated and from where?  I've
never seen them on ship registers but have not looked really hard and
one of the stories I heard was that they were brothers who came to
Canada during an uprising in Ireland and jumped ship here in Canada???
Another story I heard was that three brothers came here and sent for
their wives and kids afterward.

Any information you can provide would be most useful.

Thanks
Steve Murray

1881 Census
Osgoode, Russell, Ontario, Canada
	Source:	FHL Film 1375865  NAC C-13229  Dist 104  SubDist G  Div 3  Page 38  Family 165
	Sex	Marr	Age	Origin	Birthplace
Joseph MURRY	M	M	41	Irish	Ireland
	Occ:	Farmer	Religion:	Catholic	
Maryann MURRY	F	M	41	Irish	Ontario
			Religion:	Catholic	
William MURRY	M		16	Irish	Ontario
			Religion:	Catholic	
Cathrine MURRY	F		14	Irish	Ontario
			Religion:	Catholic	
John MURRY	M		11	Irish		Ontario
			Religion:	Catholic	
Mariah MURRY	F		7	Irish	Ontario
			Religion:	Catholic	
Emelia MURRY	F		4	Irish	Ontario
			Religion:	Catholic
	
Note: For more Murrays in Osgoode Township see John Murray.

January 29, 2009:

Hi Steve,
I happened upon a name I recognized while browsing the genealogy index for Osgoode Township.  
My name is Diane Wade, born and raised in Osgoode Township.

The Joseph Murray you speak of was my step- gggrandfather.  Maryann Wallace was married to 
John Hall who drowned in the Castor River in Russell.  She had three small children, John, 
Bill, and Kate Hall.  She married Joseph Murray and had 4 more Murray children, Alfred, Emmie,
Arthur, Maria. 
  
Of interest, especially in those days...the Murrys were Catholic, the Halls were Methodist.  
They all attended church in Metcalfe.  The Halls were dropped off at the Methodist Church at 
the Union Cemetery on Methodist Hill, Metcalfe and the Murrys continued on to the Catholic 
Church in the village.  Thus there was never any 'Orange' in our family.  If interested I 
have a Murry family picture of Joseph , Maryann and their families.

... Diane Wade
January 30, 2009:

Thanks to Diane for the following photograph:


 February 6, 2009:

Thanks to Michael Daley for the following:

Hi Al  
in re-reading  Your "what's new"    January 29 2009 , the article by Steve Murray, 2002 
and Diane wade, Jan,29.  they are both descendants of, James Murray, [1794- 1879] and his 
wife Maria Harveson [1801- 1879].              

In the mid 1840's during the great hunger in Ireland, James  Murray came to Canada to 
prepare a new home for his wife , and family. It is understood that the mother came shortly 
afterwords with the younger children - Matthew, Emma, Mary,and baby Joseph whom she was 
nursing. The ship docked at Boston after a 6- week journey during which the fresh water ran 
out as well as the mother's milk, the mother chewed rolled oats and put it in the baby's 
mouth to keep him alive, Daughter Mary died en route and was buried at sea. 

Somehow  the family got from Boston to Osgoode Township, to lot 16 in the 10, concession.

Like Diane states,  Son Joseph Murray ,lived almost next door to a young woman widowed in 
1870, Mary Ann Wallace was the oldest daughter of John Wallace, who had married Ann Cooper 
when she was age 14, and  who bore 14 children , Mary Ann married John Hall, they had 3 
children when John was drowned floating logs down the Castor River, Mary Ann then married 
Joseph Murray and had 4 more children.                                    

For more info on this Murray Family compiled by Teresa Murray Smith in 1977, see Vol. no  V1 
& V111  Pioneer Families of Osgoode Township at the Osgoode Township Historical 
Society, e-mail oths@magma.ca                             

... Michael  Daley