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.   
      
   According to what I have been able to determine is I descend from the brother   
   Joseph too except I have a different date of death (d. 17 May 1772} in Oxford   
   Township, Sussex County, New Jersey. As we track my lineage, He had a son   
   James {b 1727) in Warren,   
    NJ.  James fathered William (b. 1752) in Bedford County, Virginia, who in   
   turn fathered Price (b. Abt 1795) Green County, Kentucky.  Price fathered   
   Benjamin Franklin McMurtry, my great, great grandfather who died only 20 miles   
   from where I currently    
   live in very rural Northern, California.  This detail and a great deal more   
   can be found in my tree in Ancestry.com called "Marshall-McMurtr   
   -Knowles-Skelton".   Although I show up n the tree as Duncan Marshall James,   
   my true last name is McMurtry.  I    
   was never adopted nor has m name been legally changed.  It was a name I   
   assumed when I started school. I am the son of Ralph Bertram McMurtry (b. 5   
   Jun 1910; d. 23 Apr 1986) who was born and died in San Francisco, CA.  If you   
   have any information that    
   you think would be helpful I would really appreciate it.  Thanks   
      
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