About this time (1825) some of William and Sarah's older sons moved to the Cape Breton area.

1.6.1 Walter  1.6.3a David and 1.6.4 John Gault.

Walter became a sea Captain and lived at Port Richmond, Cape Breton

His descendants indicate he married Amelia Grant and we know that in a 1856 he was married to a Susannah. Amelia's Mother was Amelia Susannah Grant so apparently she was referred to by either name so we expect the daughter was also Amelia Susannah and there is just one wife, not two.

They had about seven children including David Murray, b 1830; Charles, b 1835; Jane, b 1838, who we'll discuss later; Frances, b 1841; Walter, b 1843; and Annie b 1855. David, Charles and Frances died together in a shipwreck about 1859. Mr. Bruce tells more of these

sons later.   We recently met via e-mail a great great granddaughter of 1843 Walter Murray and Deborah Embree, Joyce Katherine MacDonald Kaye of Brantford, Ontario.

Also in 1886 William and Sarah Murray's son Andrew passed away. On 5 January 1888, their eldest son Walter Murray died at Port Hawksbury. He was about 89 years old and is buried at Grantville.

Later that year son David Murray Sr. passed away on 14 November and is buried at Port Mulgrave.

David Murray was also a sea Captain and lived at McNairs Cove, in the County of Sidney. He first married Sarah McNair. They had Sarah C., John and Colin. From a 1830 Baptism record we found David and wife Mary had son David Murray. From this I believe Sarah had died and David had remarried. Several family sources say that David's second wife was widow MacDonald. Presumably she died in later years and David Sr. then married another widow in 1852, Mary Ann Peebles Rogers. They had two children, James William and Lucretia H. Murray. McNairs Cove is now Mulgrave.

John Gault Murray also went to Cape Breton and was also a sea Captain at Port Richmond. He married Catherine Grant and they had nine children; Sarah, William, Walter, James J., John G., Robert, Lewis Archibald, Harriett Catherine and Caroline. Again, via e-mail, we've met John Gaults great great granddaughter Shirley Ann (Oliver) Lindberg of Michigan so we have an ever increasing number of Murray family researchers

David owned a beautiful little property at Port Mulgrave, and during the summer months, the venerable old gentleman may be seen operating a new fangled species of water power of which he holds the patent right. High up amongst the granite hills a crystal fountain send its sparkling stream down the rocky slope. The old man constructed a temporary trestle way down the wharves at Wylde's Cove, and supplies the trading vessels with water from the rock profitably to himself and conveniently to his patrons.

From William Dunbar See Murray General