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M James Murray

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 429:
JAMES MURRAY, veterinary surgeon and farmer of Howard township, and one of the enterprising and progressive residents of that locality, was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Aug. 28, 1825, a son of James and Elizabeth Murray, natives of Scotland, where they married and located. James Murray, the father, died in Scotland, when the younger James was only five years of age. His marriage had occurred in 1822, and he left three children: Alexina, Isabella and James.
In 1834, the widow, with her three children, emigrated to Canada, settling on the 12th Concession. After coming to Canada she married Robert Grant, and located on the town line of Orford, where she died in 1850. No children were born of her second marriage. Of her children to her first marriage, the eldest, Alexina, was born in Scotland, in 1822, married, William McKariker, now deceased, settled in Orford, where she died, leaving a family; Isabella, born in Scotland in 1824, married Alfred Scarlett, of Howard township, where she died, leaving a family...