When James C. Murray was born on 23 May 1855, in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, James Murray, was 24 and his mother, Mary Mc Hattie, was 32. He married Frances Elvira Myers on 16 August 1886, in Ketchum, Blaine, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1863 and lived in Abbey, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1861 and Little Wood River, Blaine, Idaho, United States in 1900. In 1888, at the age of 35, his occupation is listed as ran the big butte stage station until the railroad came in 1902 in Arco, Blaine, Idaho, United States. He died on 23 April 1926, in Arco, Blaine, Idaho, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Arco, Blaine, Idaho, United States.
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Historical Boundaries - 1880: Alturas, Idaho Territory, United States; 1890: Alturas, Idaho, United States; 1891: Alta, Idaho, United States; 1891: Alturas, Idaho, United States; 1895: Blaine, Idaho, United States; 1917: Butte, Idaho, United States
Scottish: habitational name from Moray in northeastern Scotland, which derives from Celtic mori- ‘sea’ + treb- ‘settlement’. The founder of the Scottish house of Murray was a Fleming named Freskin who was granted Strathbrock in West Lothian and Duffus in Moray by David I. The family took its name from the region in the late 12th century.
Irish and Scottish: shortened form of McMurray .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muireadhaigh ‘descendant of Muireadhach’ a personal name meaning ‘mariner’. Occasionally it may be a shortened form of McMurray .
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