Margaret Ellen Murray

1885 - 1958  (73 years)

• Name	Margaret Ellen Murray
  Birth	1 Aug 1885
  Gender	Female
  Death	28 Aug 1958	Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I8310	OrwinMillar
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2023

  
  

  Father	John Murray   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Margaret Hislop   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F2747	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	James Aitken,   b. 22 Mar 1872, Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland d. 6 Apr 1915, Queensland, Australia (Age 43 years)
  Marriage	6 Feb 1906	Middlerigg, Reddingmuir, Polmont, Stirling, Scotland   [2]
  Children	1. James Aitken,   b. 20 Jul 1906, Overton Farm Redding, Polmont, Stirling, Scotland d. 2 Jan 1981, Los Angeles, California, USA (Age 74 years)   2. Margaret Hyslop Aitken,   b. 27 Dec 1908, Overton Farm Redding, Polmont, Stirling, Scotland d. 27 Aug 1978, Waterford, Oakland, Michigan, USA (Age 69 years)   3. John Murray Aitken,   b. 25 Mar 1910, Overton Farm Redding, Polmont, Stirling, Scotland d. 24 May 1978, New York, New York, USA (Age 68 years)   4. George Cunningham Aitken,   b. 11 May 1911, Polmont, Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland d. Yes, date unknown   5. Lillian Moffat Aitken,   b. 6 Mar 1914, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia d. 24 Apr 1990, Arlington, Van Buren, Michigan, USA (Age 76 years)   6. Marion Frances Hyslop Aitken,   b. 18 Jun 1915, Queensland, Australia d. 1916, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F2746	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Oct 2010

  
  

• Notes

  They proceeded to have 4 children and then James migrated to Australia by himself, with his wife and children to follow. Once getting set, though not settled, he sent for his wife and children. James and family then lived in and around the Brisbane area, Mount Brisbane, Scarborough, Towoomba, Rath Pine and then Sandgate. At Sandgate, then a separate town now a suburb of Brisbane, he owned a dairy in partnership with a Dane call Madsen, Sandgate Dairy, Bald Hills Road Sandgate. After the family arrived he and Margaret had a daughter, Lillian Moffat Aitken. James corresponded with his brother John who was farming at Hareburn Farm. In one letter he told of a tiny school nearby where the pupils and staff were terrified when a snake got into the school and would not leave. They called on James who promptly shot the reptile. It was believed that James was killed in a tractor accident whilst aged in his 30's. He may have died of a heart attack. On late information just received it states he died of a brain haemorrhage. When he died his wife was already pregnant with their daughter May. After May was born Margaret and and the children set sail back to Scotland on a troop ship. This turned out to be an epic journey, of 7 weeks, as the ship zig zagged its way across the oceans avoiding U-Boats and picking up survivors from stricken vessels. May died of influenza, which was in pandemic proportions, either on board the ship or very soon after landing. Margaret remarried in Scotland to John Morrison. John and James, Margaret's eldest boy, then went to the USA, with Margaret and the rest of the children following. Margaret and children arrived in the Port of New York on 1 Aug 1923. Margaret and John then provided a half brother for the children. The whole family moved to Michigan in 1925.

  
  

• Sources

  [S77] Terry Stewart (Reliability: 3). [S77] Terry Stewart.