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According to information received in 1997 from Peter Murray, Walter, the
youngest son of Alfred and Mary (Everitt) Murray, was born December 10,
1837, at Salem in the Alburney district, Cape Province, South Africa, and
was the first baby baptised in St. John's Church, Bathurst. At age 18 he
began farming in the Graaff Reinet district, Cape Colony,and after many
moves acquired the farms Hoeksfontein in 1865 and Roode Bloem in 1873,
settling on the latter farm in 1875. He raised sheep and also pioneered
the introduction of irrigation techniques and ostrich farming in the
Graaff Reinet district. He raised and commanded a mounted volunteer
corps, the Voor Sneeuberg Rangers, in the Gaika Galeka War in 1878. He
took an active interest in the elimination of scab (a disease of sheep)
and obtained an appointment as scab inspector for the government. He
invented and promoted the circular dip tank still in use today for
treatment of scab and became an agent for Cooper's Dip. He was also very
active in the Zwart Ruggens Farmers Association. Known as Oupa to his
large family, he died May 9, 1924, aged 86 having been an invalid for the
last 10 years.
He married on August 1, 1859, Anna Elizabeth Southey (born December 20,
1836, died October 15, 1914), eldest child of George and Eleanor
(Rubidge) Southey of Bloemhof farm, Graaff Reinet district.
Walter and Anna Murray had 11 children, and the family they founded were
well known in the Cape Colony as the Roode Bloem Murrays to distinguish
them from the unrelated but equally numerous family of the Rev'd Andrew
Murray in Graaff Reinet.
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CHILDREN
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Name: William Everitt MURRAY
Born: ABT. APR 1860 at:
Married: at:
Died: 29 MAY 1861 at:
Spouses:
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Name: Ellie Harriet MURRAY
Born: ABT. 1861 at:
Married: at:
Died: 23 MAY 1861 at:
Spouses:
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Name: George Alfred Everitt MURRAY
Born: 18 MAR 1862 at:
Married: 8 OCT 1889 at: Graaff Reinet, Karoo, South Africa
Died: 5 JUL 1941 at: Johannesburg, South Africa
Spouses: Kathleen Elizabeth Mary DUNNE
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Name: Edith Mary MURRAY
Born: 28 SEP 1863 at:
Married: at:
Died: 14 SEP 1923 at:
Spouses:
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Name: Walter Everitt MURRAY
Born: 22 JAN 1865 at:
Married: 18 OCT 1918 at:
Died: 6 JUN 1936 at:
Spouses: Gundreda Mary WARREN
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Name: Harriet Eleanor MURRAY
Born: 18 OCT 1866 at:
Married: at:
Died: AUG 1942 at:
Spouses:
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Name: Arthur Everitt MURRAY
Born: 19 JUN 1869 at:
Married: JAN 1895 at:
Died: 3 MAR 1939 at:
Spouses: Eleanor Rubidge STEABLER Ethel Marion LUSCOMBE
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Name: Thomas Everitt MURRAY
Born: 14 OCT 1870 at:
Married: 1900 at:
Died: 22 MAY 1941 at:
Spouses: Eleanor MCDONALD
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Name: Frank Everitt MURRAY
Born: 27 MAR 1873 at:
Married: 7 JUL 1903 at: Cape Town, South Africa
Died: 1 FEB 1907 at:
Spouses: Florence LUSCOMBE
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Name: Annie Elizabeth MURRAY
Born: 3 AUG 1876 at:
Married: at:
Died: 9 MAR 1955 at:
Spouses:
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Name: Herbert Everitt MURRAY
Born: 1879 at:
Married: at:
Died: 1880 at:
Spouses:
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