Thanks to Sue for providing Mr. Macmurdo's wife's name and locations of his birth and death.
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Henley Marriage & Obituary Database at the Library of Virginia:Full View of Record: LVA CatalogsMain Entry Richmond Whig & public advertiserTitle Died- On Dec. 29, 1848, Charles J. McMurdo, in his 78th year, a native of Scotland, who came to Richmond when 14 years old. (p. 4, c. 3)Publication Tuesday, January 2, 1849.Gen. note From the marriage and obituary citations compiled by Bernard J. Henley from Virginia newspapers on microfilm at the Library of Virginia.
Other Format Available on microfilm (Library of Virginia Film 144).Added Title Bernard J. Henley papers.System Number 001162679Scotland is also given as a birth place in a biography of Rt. Rev. John Stark Ravenscroft:Haywood, Marshall De Lancey, “Lives of the Bishops of North Carolina, From the Establishment of the Episcopate in that State Down to the Division of the Diocese,” Alfred Williams & Co., Raleigh, NC, 1910.
p. 40 - footnotes“After the death of her first husband, Mrs. Rebecca Ravenscroft (born Stark) married George McMurdo, who died in Galloway, Scotland, in 1798. She left several children by her second husband and one or more settled in Virginia, among these being Charles J. McMurdo. The last named had a daughter (wife of Patrick Gibson) whose son, the Reverend Churchill J. Gibson, married a sister of Bishop Atkinson and was father of Right Reverend Robert Atkinson Gibson, Bishop of Virginia.
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Henley Marriage & Obituary Database at the Library of Virginia:Full View of Record: LVA CatalogsMain Entry Richmond Whig & public advertiserTitle Died- On Dec. 29, 1848, Charles J. McMurdo, in his 78th year, a native of Scotland, who came to Richmond when 14 years old. (p. 4, c. 3)Publication Tuesday, January 2, 1849.Gen. note From the marriage and obituary citations compiled by Bernard J. Henley from Virginia newspapers on microfilm at the Library of Virginia.
Other Format Available on microfilm (Library of Virginia Film 144).Added Title Bernard J. Henley papers.System Number 001162679Scotland is also given as a birth place in a biography of Rt. Rev. John Stark Ravenscroft:Haywood, Marshall De Lancey, “Lives of the Bishops of North Carolina, From the Establishment of the Episcopate in that State Down to the Division of the Diocese,” Alfred Williams & Co., Raleigh, NC, 1910.
p. 40 - footnotes“After the death of her first husband, Mrs. Rebecca Ravenscroft (born Stark) married George McMurdo, who died in Galloway, Scotland, in 1798. She left several children by her second husband and one or more settled in Virginia, among these being Charles J. McMurdo. The last named had a daughter (wife of Patrick Gibson) whose son, the Reverend Churchill J. Gibson, married a sister of Bishop Atkinson and was father of Right Reverend Robert Atkinson Gibson, Bishop of Virginia.
Thanks to Sue for providing Mr. Macmurdo's wife's name and locations of his birth and death.
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Henley Marriage & Obituary Database at the Library of Virginia:Full View of Record: LVA CatalogsMain Entry Richmond Whig & public advertiserTitle Died- On Dec. 29, 1848, Charles J. McMurdo, in his 78th year, a native of Scotland, who came to Richmond when 14 years old. (p. 4, c. 3)Publication Tuesday, January 2, 1849.Gen. note From the marriage and obituary citations compiled by Bernard J. Henley from Virginia newspapers on microfilm at the Library of Virginia.
Other Format Available on microfilm (Library of Virginia Film 144).Added Title Bernard J. Henley papers.System Number 001162679Scotland is also given as a birth place in a biography of Rt. Rev. John Stark Ravenscroft:Haywood, Marshall De Lancey, “Lives of the Bishops of North Carolina, From the Establishment of the Episcopate in that State Down to the Division of the Diocese,” Alfred Williams & Co., Raleigh, NC, 1910.
p. 40 - footnotes“After the death of her first husband, Mrs. Rebecca Ravenscroft (born Stark) married George McMurdo, who died in Galloway, Scotland, in 1798. She left several children by her second husband and one or more settled in Virginia, among these being Charles J. McMurdo. The last named had a daughter (wife of Patrick Gibson) whose son, the Reverend Churchill J. Gibson, married a sister of Bishop Atkinson and was father of Right Reverend Robert Atkinson Gibson, Bishop of Virginia.
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Henley Marriage & Obituary Database at the Library of Virginia:Full View of Record: LVA CatalogsMain Entry Richmond Whig & public advertiserTitle Died- On Dec. 29, 1848, Charles J. McMurdo, in his 78th year, a native of Scotland, who came to Richmond when 14 years old. (p. 4, c. 3)Publication Tuesday, January 2, 1849.Gen. note From the marriage and obituary citations compiled by Bernard J. Henley from Virginia newspapers on microfilm at the Library of Virginia.
Other Format Available on microfilm (Library of Virginia Film 144).Added Title Bernard J. Henley papers.System Number 001162679Scotland is also given as a birth place in a biography of Rt. Rev. John Stark Ravenscroft:Haywood, Marshall De Lancey, “Lives of the Bishops of North Carolina, From the Establishment of the Episcopate in that State Down to the Division of the Diocese,” Alfred Williams & Co., Raleigh, NC, 1910.
p. 40 - footnotes“After the death of her first husband, Mrs. Rebecca Ravenscroft (born Stark) married George McMurdo, who died in Galloway, Scotland, in 1798. She left several children by her second husband and one or more settled in Virginia, among these being Charles J. McMurdo. The last named had a daughter (wife of Patrick Gibson) whose son, the Reverend Churchill J. Gibson, married a sister of Bishop Atkinson and was father of Right Reverend Robert Atkinson Gibson, Bishop of Virginia.
Inscription
Charles James Macmurdo
Born 6 Jany' 1771
Died 29 Dec'r 1848.
Gravesite Details
Buried on 31 Dec 1848. Age at death: 78. Information from transcription of the Shockoe Hill Cemetery Burial Register 1822 to 1850. Name listed as Chas. McMurdo in the burial register.
Family Members
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