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MURRAY, JAMES (1828-1906)

MURRAY, JAMES, Presbyterian minister, Tabusintac and Burnt Church, 1861-65, and Douglastown, 1881-85; b. Berwickshire, Scotland, 31 Aug 1828, s/o Alexander Murray and Jean Bookless; m. 1859, Margaret McLeod, d/o Roderick McLeod and h/w Janet; d. Tignish, P.E.I., 18 Feb 1906.

James Murray was trained for the ministry in Edinburgh, Scotland, and ordained by the Presbytery of Dalkeith. He was an assistant at Abernethy until sent out in 1852 by the colonial committee of the Church of Scotland to be minister at Bathurst, N.B. He occupied the Bathurst charge until 1861 and then accepted a call to his wife's home community of Tabusintac, as pastor of St Andrew's Church there and of St David's at Burnt Church. He stayed until 1865.

After serving at Dalhousie, N.B., and Wallace, N.S., Murray returned to the Miramichi in May 1881 as the first settled minister of St Mark's Church at Douglastown. The cornerstone of St Mark's was laid on 18 October 1875, and the church was dedicated on 7 July 1878, but it had taken three more years to secure a full-time minister. Murray remained for more than four years and then went back to Nova Scotia.

Murray's wife, Margaret McLeod, died at Montrose, P.E.I., in 1891, at age fifty-eight, while he was the minister of Montrose and Tignish. In 1895 his only son, James Murray Jr, died at age twenty-five. He later retired in Newcastle, where he still owned property, but in 1901 he sold out and went back to the Island. He died at Tignish in 1906, at age seventy-seven, leaving a married daughter in the United States. His remains were brought back for burial in St James churchyard beside those of his wife.

To the Chatham World, Murray was "a man of culture" and "a preacher of power and refinement."

Sources

[b] Presb. Witness 21 Apr 1906; Scottosh vital records [m] Gleaner 29 Oct 1859 [d] tombstone / Advance 4/11 Jul 1878; Advocate 11 May 1881, 4 Mar 1891, 19 Aug 1891, 31 Jul 1895, 31 Jul 1901, 28 Aug 1901; annual 1906; Archibald; FES; Leader 15 Oct 1975; Walkington; World 24 Feb 1906


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