Some genealogy information on Tawnamartola from Nancy Etzkorn

John Murray's father was Martin Murray - he was married to Margaret Keane.

I don't know how many children other than John they had.  I would assume there were many since that seems to have been the norm at that time.
 
My grandfather was Patrick Bryce (Brice).  His parents were:  Richard Brice and Mary William Chambers.  According to what I have been told, their house was a "stone's throw" from the Murray's.

John Murray (the weaver) wife Mary (Sheridan) is my great grandfather.  I suspected that the house was in ruins.  All the children listed are my grandmother (Mary Ann) and her siblings that were born at that time. I have information that James (born 1898( married a Mary Moran and they had 2 daughters - Mary Murray and Kathleen Murray.AND that he married:  Kate Murray and also had 2 daughters:  Rosaleen Murray and Eileen Murray. I don't have birthdates for any of the daughters but it does seem a little "suspect" to me that he was married twice.  Oh well, nothing surprises me anymore. When James passed away in 1955, his brother Patrick Murray, born in 1902, married Kate and help raise her daughters so she wouldn't have to move out of the house - do you think that would be the "Murray" house?I have been e-mailing Margaret Poole, whose mother is Nancy Gallagher and she said one of the daughters moved to England. 

I have been told is that my great-grandfather, John Murray, was so heart broken when his oldest daughter left for the States, he etched the date in a stone outside the house - much like a grave headstone.  He must have felt he would never see her again.