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Anne Maule Murdoch

Female 1803 - 1871  (68 years)


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  • Name Anne Maule Murdoch 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Female 
    Born 18 Apr 1803  [1] 
    Baptism 10 May 1803  Kilmadock, Doune, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Residence 1819  Kilmadock, Doune, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Census 1841  [4] 
    Census 1851  Chester Street, Knightsbridge, Westminster, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Address:
    Chester Street 
    Census 1861  3 Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Census 1871  Newington, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Died 21 Dec 1871  [8] 
    Last Modified 15 Mar 2021 

    Father William Murdoch, of Gartincaber
              b. 5 Jan 1757
              d. 1805  (Age 47 years) 
    Mother Sarah Campbell "Sally" Murdoch
              b. Est 1778
              d. Abt 1835  (Age ~ 57 years) 
    Married 1801  [8] 
    • Sarah Murdoch (same surname, different family) was William Murdoch's housekeeper and their wedding was a bit of a scandal, apparently.

    Husband John Burn
              b. 28 Aug 1793
              d. 21 Aug 1862, Gartincaber, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)  [9, 10] 
    Married 18 Mar 1820  Gartincaber, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 11, 12] 
    Age at Marriage She was 16, he was 26  
    Children 
     1. John Burn-Murdoch
              b. 19 Jun 1821, 48 Frederick Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 21 Sep 1908, Gartincaber, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years)
     2. William Murdoch Burn-Murdoch
              b. 9 Nov 1822, 48 Frederick Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 12 Apr 1878  (Age 55 years)
     3. Rev. John Alexander Higgins Burn-Murdoch
              b. 17 Apr 1824, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 9 May 1883, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years)
     4. Sarah Beatrice Campbell Burn-Murdoch
              b. 15 Oct 1825, Coldoch House, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 12 Jul 1866  (Age 40 years)
     5. Marion Higgins Burn-Murdoch
              b. 24 Jan 1827, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 24 Jun 1914  (Age 87 years)
     6. Rev. James McGibbon Burn-Murdoch
              b. 28 Nov 1828, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 23 Mar 1904  (Age 75 years)
     7. Archibald James Murdoch Burn-Murdoch
              b. 28 Mar 1830, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 28 Nov 1835  (Age 5 years)
     8. Margaret Higgins Burn-Murdoch
              b. 23 May 1831, 13 Melville Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 8 Aug 1915  (Age 84 years)
     9. Archibald Murdoch Burn-Murdoch
              b. 10 Dec 1836, 13 Melville Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 30 Jun 1916  (Age 79 years)
    Last Modified 10 Jun 2019 

  • Notes 
    • Early Life
      Anne Maule Murdoch was born on the 18th of April 1803 to William Murdoch of Gartincaber and his wife Sarah Murdoch. Anne was their only child and thus became the heiress of the Gartincaber estate (Stirlingshire) on the death of her father in 1805, when she was just two. Anne's baptism was witnessed by Edward Burn of Coldoch, who could perhaps be an uncle of Anne's future husband John Burn. The other witness was James Murdoch, Anne's maternal grandfather.

      Family Life
      Anne married John Burn on the 18th of March 1820 in Gartincaber, when she was just 17. One of the conditions of her inheritance was that whomsoever she married must adopt the Murdoch name; hence her husband changed his surname to Burn-Murdoch and here started the Burn-Murdoch family that is still extant today.

      For details on their children, see the entry for her husband John.

      Annie Jessie Burn-Murdoch recalled the following memories of her grandmother Anne Maule Murdoch in a 1914 letter to her cousin Hector Burn-Murdoch:1
      I think my earliest recollection of our grandmother is a picture of a tall kind protective figure who came to take me out for a walk on a Sunday morning when my parents & elder brother & sister had gone to church. We were then living in [Number 5] Melville St, Edinburgh - & I remember the happy feeling of escaping from the Nursery where younger brothers & sisters were claiming our stern Nurse’s attention & the importance of being dressed to go for a walk with grandmamma.

      When my grandfather died [in 1862], grandmamma continued the good morning sweets & her old maid Betty used to get the tin box out for her to give them to us. I can so well remember, especially at Gartincaber, how we cousins used to loiter about after the good morning sweets making exchanges with each other over the various kinds we liked best. I can see now the mauve heart-shaped ones which were counted worth two red heart ones & these in their turn were counted worth two, if not three, of the “sheepstails”!

      I remember my grandmother telling us of her early housekeeping at Gartincaber. Soon after she was married there came to visit her there on one October the Macnab of Borain – the Chief of the Clan MacNab - & his wife2 who was grandmamma’s first cousin. The lady Macnab was carried in a palanquin which involved a good many ghillies who were accommodated in G’ber stables. The Macnabs were on their way back from Stirling & were to visit my grandparents for a few days but unfortunately an early snow storm came on which made the pass of Larnkiely (now called Glen Ogle) impassable so that instead of staying for a short time they stayed for several weeks & more & more sheep had to be killed to feed them all. You will find amongst the G’ber letters an amusing one from this Lady Macnab to John Burn-Murdoch asking him to buy a wig for her in Edinburgh. I have a copy of it here.

      On another occasion in Edinburgh when my grandparents were living in Royal Crescent & entertaining there, they had a French manservant who tried in vain to catch the Macnab name so the McNab handed him his calling card, where on the triumphant servant opened the drawing room door wide & announced “Monsieur Nab”. My grandmother said she had to make profuse apologies to sooth his wounded pride. This said Macnab’s[3] portrait by Raeburn has been lately sold to Mr Dewar for £70,000. I have been asked to come to see it after the war is over. At present it is safely in a cellar to avoid risks of air raids.


      Death
      Anne died on the 21st of December 1871, aged 68, nine years after her husband.

      Murdoch Surname
      The Burn-Murdoch arms include a Murdoch quartering:
      "parted per pale argent and sable, two ravens pendent on an arrow fessways pointing to the sinister all counterchanged"

      This matches the arms of the Murdoch family arising in Cumloden in Galloway. See here for an origins story of the arms; also repeated in L_Unknown_Kerby (Family Archive). There is also some evidence in the family archive for and against this connection:

      1. D_Murdoch (Burn-Murdoch Scrapbook) describes Archibald Murdoch (Anne Maule Murdoch's paternal grandfather) as "a cadet Murdoch of Cumloden".
      2. L_Unknown_Burn-Murdoch_Cumlodden, written by Hector Burn-Murdoch, opens with a denial of any link to the Cumloden Murdoch's but then presents other family stories which also seek to clarify the link to the Bridge of Teith Murdochs (i.e the family of Anne's mother Sarah Campbell Murdoch).

      Annie Jessie Burn-Murdoch certainly spent a lot of time investigating the Cumloden link, though (based on the extant letters) without any particular success.

      Footnotes
      A bible, gifted by Anne to her maternal grandfather James Murdoch, is in our family archive. It has a short dedication from Anne to James, and the names and dates of birth and baptism of all her children.
      [1] L_1918_03_Bryans_Burn-Murdoch_1
      [2] This is probably Anne Murdoch, who married Macnab of Borain. Their son Archibald succeeded his uncle as Laird of Macnab (the 17th chief); Archibald would have been Anne Maule Murdoch’s first cousin; he started a branch of the family in Canada
      [3] Here she’s talking about Francis Macnab, the 16th Chief and Archibald Macnab’s uncle

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 18 Mar 1820 - Gartincaber, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1861 - 3 Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Sources 
    1. [S0258] Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Anne Maule Murdoch; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X1VQ-GH5 : 10 February 2018), Ann Maule Murdoch, 18 Apr 1803; citing , reference , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,040.

    2. [S0257] Scotland Births & Baptisms 1564-1950, FindMyPast, (findmypast.co.uk), Anne Maule Murdoch, 10 May 1803.

    3. [S0226] Perthshire, Scotland, Cess, Stent and Valuation Rolls, 1650-1899, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), Anne Maule Murdoch; Perth and Kinross Council Archive; Cess Rolls Perthshire, 1819-1842; Roll: SCPERa018_026Cs18191842, 1819.

    4. [S0227] 1841 Scotland Census, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), Anne Maule Murdoch; Edinburgh St Cuthberts; Dean House; Parish 685/2, 1841.

    5. [S0311] England and Wales Census, 1851, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Anne BM Mardoch; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGTJ-YLT : 12 September 2019), Anne M B Mardoch, Saint Georges Hanover Square, Middlesex, England; citing Saint Georges Hanover Square, Middlesex, England, p. 24, from "1851 England, Scotlan, 1851.

    6. [S0249] 1861 Scotland Census, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), John Burn & Family; Parish: Edinburgh St Cuthberts; ED: 104; Page: 11; Line: 7; Roll: CSSCT1861_125, 1861.

    7. [S0415] 1871 England, Wales & Scotland Census, FindMyPast, (findmypast.co.uk), Burn-Murdoch; Greenhill Lodge, St Cuthbert, Edinburgh, 1871.

    8. [S0068] Burke's Landed Gentry, 1st Edition Reprint, John Burke and John Bernard Burke, (1849), Burn-Murdoch of Gartincaber; Volume 3, page 240, 1849.

    9. [S0186] Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), Anne Maule Murdoch; FHL Film Number1040115, 18 Mar 1820.

    10. [S0035] familysearch, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XY3C-LM4.

    11. [S0267] Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Anne Maule Murdoch; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XY3C-LM4 : 11 February 2020), Anne Maule Murdoch in entry for John Burn, 1820., 18 Mar 1820.

    12. [S0248] Murdoch Family Bible, (This is an 1815 bible gifted by Anne Maule Murdoch to her grandfather James), Notes on first pages, 1817.