William Murdoch
Engineer
FamilyNo record yet ties them to their parents or their children, so the relationships above are the family tree's. 1 record that names them has been read, set out on this page. How this archive grades a claim →
None of the 14 relationships shown here is written in a record this archive has read. Every one comes from the family tree. That is not a claim that they are wrong — it is a statement about what has been checked, and on this site the difference is the point. How claims are labelled →
The record
| Born | 7 OCT 1856 | St Quivox, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Died | 22 APR 1918 | Maloney Street, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia |
| Cause | Heart attack | |
| Buried | — | Toowoomba Cemetery, Queensland, Australia |
| Trade | Engineer |
direct line
Counted here with the Murdoch family · that family →
Family
Parents
Married
Catherine Jane Matson · 26 DEC 1890 at Maryborough, Queensland, Australia
Brothers and sisters
Marion Fleming Murdoch (b. 1859) · James Murdoch (b. 1861) · Francis Murdoch (b. 1863) · Janet Murdoch (b. 1867) · George Murdoch (b. 1868) · Jeanie Murdoch (b. 1870)
Children
Francis Claudius "Frank" Murdoch (1892–1958) · Marion Janet Murdoch (1893–1972) · William James Fraser "Bill" Murdoch (1894–1946) · Allan George Murdoch (1896–1907) · Annie Kathleen Murdoch (1898–1964)
Where this comes from
No relationship on this page has been checked against a record — the parents, marriages and children drawn above are what the family tree says. But 1 record naming William Murdoch has been read, and it is set out below. How claims are labelled →
What the records say
Every record this archive has read that names William Murdoch. The name is unique in this tree, so these are his or hers. The whole register →
died 22/04/1918 · parents: Marion Fleming Watt · Francis Murdoch
recordQueensland death index 1918/C/2318 · the source ↗
Everywhere William appears in this archive
Every page of this site that writes aboutWilliam Murdoch in prose, gathered automatically — 3 in total. This counts pages, not records: the lists and registers are skipped on purpose, so a person can be well documented and appear here once or not at all. How claims are labelled →
…e, Janet, Jeanie, James and William. He died at Ayr in 1909; he never left Scotland. 1856 William Murdoch · 1856–1918 Born St Quivox and Newton, Ayrshire, 7 October 1856 — and the Scottish statutory register names his parents as Franci…
…Scotland, Marriages (indexes) www.familysearch.org/search/collection/5000163 The birth of William Murdoch at St Quivox and Newton, 7 October 1856, naming Francis Murdoch and Marion Watt; and their marriage at Avondale, Lanarkshire, 6 M…
…tring sweep reports 25 hits and every one is noise — «George» inside George Pitt D'Arcy, «William Murdoch» inside Keith William Murdoch 1925-1996, «Geraldine» inside Geraldine D'Arcy 1872-1937. tools/check_living.py now has a json_pass…
Written about here
Pages of this archive where William is part of the argument, not just a name in a list.
What is written about William
Carried across from the family tree, with its markup stripped. Family testimony, not an independent record — valuable, and labelled.
Sources attached in the tree
- FamilySearch Family Tree — https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40001-1055069206/william-murdoch-in-familysearch-family-tree
These are the citations the family tree carries. Where this archive has checked one against the original, it says so on the relevant page. Method →
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