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Murray War Grave Sleepyhillock Cemetery Montrose Scotland

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Channel: tourscotland · 2013 · Travel & Events

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Tour Scotland video of Flight Sergeant, William Stanley Murray, gravestone in Sleepyhillock Cemetery on ancestry visit to Montrose. William served with the Royal Australian Air Force and died aged 23, on the 11th of October 1943. He was the son of Sidney James Murray and Lily Maude Murray, of Auburn, New South Wales, Australia. Murray was first used as a surname by descendants of the Pictish people of ancient Scotland. The ancestors of the Murray family lived in the county of Moray in the northeast of Scotland, but some historians describe the Clan's forbears as originally Flemish, some as Lowland Scots. More enlightened research places them as descendents of MacAngus de Moravia, who was descended from King Duncan of Scotland and who was the first Earl of Murray. The surname Murray was first found in Moray, where the Clan founder, Freskin, received a grant of the lands of Strathbrock in 1100 AD. He was descended from the first Earl, and his grandson, William, married the heiress of the Bothwell Clan in Lanarkshire. His sons founded many other houses, including the Murrays of Tullibardine, who later became the Dukes of Atholl, and Chiefs of the Clan.

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