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 This home page pertains to the
Murdock
family that descended from Robert Murdock the earliest known
Murdock in my family line. His birth is given as September 6, 1665
in Sterling, Scotland. During the early part of 1680 there was a
considerable immigration from Scotland and it is thought that
Robert came to the United States during that period. He was
married to Hanna Stedman in Roxbury, Massachusetts on April 28,
1692. Records further show that Robert died in Newton, Ma. on
April 28, 1754. To-date we have no information regarding
Robert’s passage to the U. S. neither as to the ship he traveled
on nor as to any person that may have taken the trip with him.
Succeeding generations of this Murdock family moved West through
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Iowa. As various
generations of this family line moved West they expanded and
branches moved into surrounding states and some went further west
to Nebraska, Kansas and Utah. At the present time my family record
contains over 6600 names of individuals that are directly related
or that became associated with the family through marriage.
It is recognized that several
Murdock families appeared in
America during the 1600’s. Any connection between these families
has never been established. It appears that information about any
relationships among these families will need to be found in
Scottish records which is a difficult endeavor because of the
unsettled conditions that existed in Scotland during and prior to
the 1600’s. During this period the conflict that existed between
various hostile forms of church government resulted in records
being either maintained haphazardly or destroyed. Some
genealogists have expressed the opinion that it is doubtful the
ancestry of any early Scotch immigrant to America can be
definitely established. It is hoped that this is found not to be
true in this particular research project.
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To secure more information about the life of
Robert
Murdock who was born in Scotland and died in
Massachusetts.
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To find the ancestors of Robert
Murdock.
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To secure more information about the following
families:
KERR
– Samuel Kerr, my earliest known Kerr, was born in Ireland,
October, 1813 and died in Van Buren County, Iowa in on December
24, 1895. He first appears .in Ohio in 1840’s; after 1850 he
and his descendents are found in Van Buren County, Iowa where an
offspring Elsie Delila Kerr married Reynolds Cyrus Murdock in
1921.
PIKE
-- William Pike, my earliest known Pike, leaves Indiana in 1856
and settles in Page County, Iowa. Here William Pike
unsuccessfully attempted to develop Page City as the county
seat. Family history is vague after his death in 1874. An
offspring Elsie E. Pike married William Mort in 1870; they had
an offspring Floy May Mort who married Samuel Clyde Kerr in
1899.
DAVIS
– Samuel Davis, my earliest known Davis, and his wife Rhoda
Hilton appear in New Milford, Ct. in the late 1700’s. They
later moved to Delaware County, NY where an offspring Clarissa
Dorr Davis married John Savage Murdock in 1812.
JORDAN
– Cyrus P. Jordan, my earliest known Jordan, was born in Ohio
in 1818 and by 1838 was in Springfield, Ill. He later went to Sigourney, Ia.
and finally to Geneva, Neb. While in Sigourney an offspring Alcy
Jane Jordan married Melancthon Murdock in 1856.
by William
C. Murdock
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There are about 6600 entries in my data base. Below are the
individuals who are my direct ancestors. They are the people that
would appear in my pedigree charts.
If you find families that you
would like more information contact me.
I would also like to be contacted if there are families that are
common to both of us. We can exchange family information in more
detail than is provided by this web page. I would like to hear
from anyone that is researching the MURDOCK family lines.
I hope you are able to find some information that is of
interest and help to you in your genealogical research.
The ancestry report uses 'Ahnentafel' numbering. This means that
a person's parent's numbers will be twice as large as the
person's number. So if someone's number is 15, her father will
be number 30, and mother will be 31. Her child will be number 7.
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