Notes for George Alfred Everitt MURRAY

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Notes for George Alfred Everitt MURRAY

The History of the Thurtell Family done by Susan Persia Thurtell about 1968 and the big family tree done by Harriet Thurtell about 1900 show George Alfred E. Thurtell married Kathleen Dunne and lists their three oldest children. The rest of the information about him and his descendants was received from Peter Murray in 1997.

It shows that Dr. George Alfred Everitt Murray, M.B., F.R.C.S., eldest son of Walter and Annie Murray of Roode Bloem, was born March 18, 1862, and died in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 5, 1941. He obtained his medical training with distinction at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, and returned to South Africa to become a surgeon in Johannesburg, the first doctor in that pioneer town. He was a founder of Johannesburg General Hospital and Chief of Surgery there. During the Boer War he and his wife Kathleen went to England on the hospital ship "Norman" in 1900 and were both invested by Queen Victoria with the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in recognition of their organization of hospital services during a critical period of the conflict. Later he became the first president of the South African Medical Association. He was married in Graaff Reinet, South Africa, October 8, 1889, to Kathleen Elizabeth Mary Dunne, "Kit." George and Kathleen (Dunne) Murray had 4 children, all sons:

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