Notes for George Everitt MURRAY

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Notes for George Everitt MURRAY

The family tree done by Harriet Thurtell about 1900 and the History of the Thurtell Family done by Susan Persia Thurtell about 1968 show him as George Thurtell but list his wife, daughter, and granddaughter.

Information received from Peter Murray in 1997 shows that George, the eldest son of Alfred and Mary (Everitt) Murray, was born in London on November 29, 1830, and christened December 25, 1830, at the Scotch Church, Saint Pancres, Regent Square, London. He became a farmer in the Graaff Reinet district in the Karoo, and was an authority on, and breeder of, Angora Goats. A later newspaper clipping described him as "a mighty big game hunter." He moved about a lot, farming in various districts, and was appointed Field Cornet, Rheunosterberg, Hopetown in 1869. The last farm he and his wife Jenny occupied was at Perrieshoogte, from which they moved to Graaff Reinet in 1898. He died August 5, 1901; and both he and his wife are buried at Graaff Reinet.

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