descendants of Edward Murrow of Ansford and his three daughters
I escape the Christmas mayhem at home in the late 1990s. I've just been up to Taunton on the train! I ran along the railway line to the Record Office, just beating the train as it puffed out of the station. Wrapped in old family papers I find the Will of Edward Murrow, a man I had not heard of before. I find that we descend from Elizabeth, his eldest daughter of Edward Murrow. Edward was about to die and the date was Christmas, 170 years ago. He makes his Will, talking of his son-in-law's shop, his daughter's pregnancy and the land he owned. He divided up his property at Weekway to the three daughters of his own eldest child, Elizabeth. Mary his beloved youngest daughter died a few days after birthing her infant. That was 1732. It is now 1769 and the three girls have all grown up and disappeared from Ansford. Elizabeth's granddaughter is now in childbed of her first child and not thought to live. The rector travels to read Prayers for her. Sixty years later we read of the death of her son, elderly bachelor farmer William Whittock in 1837 as told by two local farmers writing to their sister in the States. William Whittock died in the August heat while taking out dinner to Ann Oram who was working in the hayfield. His niece Jane lived with them as her mother had died. Her marriage to the village miller is announced in the letters.
Descendants of Edward MURROW