On Thursday, December 30, 1999 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, James Falkner wrote:   
   > Throughout the American history of the family, the name appears as   
   > McMurtry, McMurtrey, McMurtrie and McMurtree. According to our family   
   > tradition, five brothers came to America about/before 1720 and founded   
   > the McMurtry family on this side of the Atlantic.  We now know that   
   > there were three brothers, Joseph, Thomas and Robert and two sisters   
   > (one probably named Hannah) with their husbands James Hanna and Robert   
   > Houey. A probable cousin, Alexander, joined them later.  My family is   
   > descended from Joseph.  One of the brothers (not our Joseph) was   
   > married at the time of their arrival in America. Joseph died 2 Jun   
   > 1761, Oxford Township, New Jersey.  Also, it has been passed down that   
   > one of the three McMurtrie/McMurtry brothers, not our Joseph, returned   
   > to Scotland to reclaim the family estate, lands and castle but found   
   > that it had been seized by the Crown.  To this day, the reason remains   
   > unknown.   
   > Sibling details:   
   > 1. Joseph MCMURTRY b. 1685, Dalmellington, Ayrshire, Scotland.  Some   
   > researchers claim that Joseph was born in Northern Ireland.  I have   
   > his will. In the original Gaelic, it was spelled MacMuirceartach.  The   
   > McMurtry's are not a clan but a sept of the clan Stewart of Bute.   
   > 2. Thomas MCMURTRY was born about 1700.  He died in 1788 in Bernards   
   > Township, Somerset County, New Jersey.   
   > 3. Robert MCMURTRIE was born about 1710.  He died before 6 Sep 1777 in   
   > Sussex County, New Jersey.   
   > 4. (Female/sister #1) was married to James HANNA.   
   > 5. Hannah MCMURTRY was married to Robert HOUEY.   
   >   
   > Is this family familiar to anyone?  /Jim Falkner, son of Marguerite   
   > McMurtry.   
      
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