Johnson / Bryans Families

Tracing the ancestry of Pamela Murdoch Bryans and Maurice Alan Johnson

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Alfred Maule Burn-Murdoch

Male 1868 - 1914  (45 years)

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  • Name Alfred Maule Burn-Murdoch 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Male 
    Birth 7 Jul 1868  Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Death 5 Mar 1914  Selangor, Malaysia Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Siblings 4 brothers and 6 sisters 
    Last Modified 24 Jan 2021 

    Father 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) 
    Mother Dorothea Harriet "Dora" Monck-Mason
              b. Abt 1832  
              d. 13 May 1919 (Age ~ 87 years) 
    Marriage 28 Jun 1851  Kilmadock, Doune, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    • Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910 has the date as the 11th September 1851

    Wife Ma Thet
              b. Between 1868 and 1883 
    Marriage 1899  [5] 
    Age at Marriage Alfred was ~ 30 years old - Ma was ~ 31 years old. 
    Children 
     1. Harry Grey Burn-Murdoch
              b. 21 Nov 1900  
              d. 27 Dec 1975, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
    Last Modified 26 Oct 2020 

  • Notes 
    • Early Life
      Born 7th of July 1868, to John Burn-Murdoch and Dorothea (née Monck-Mason), their eighth child. Alfred attended Loretto School from April 1884 to July 1887 (aged 16-18) and was a prizewinner in the Interscholastic Games.

      Career
      Alfred went to the Royal Indian Engineering College in Cooper's Hill (Surrey) in 1888. From there he was appointed to the Indian Woods and Forests Department, which he joined in 1891. He served in Burmah from 1891 to 1901. He was then appointed Conservator of Forests for the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States in 1901.

      Death
      Alfred died on the 5th March 1914 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from a stroke, aged only 46. A notice in the Singapore Free Press1 read as follows:
      The Secretary to the High Commissioner informs us that a telegram has been received stating that Mr Burn Murdoch died suddenly at Klang on Thursday night.

      The late Mr Alfred Maule Burn Murdoch was Conservator of Forests, FMS, and was born in 1868, thus being under 46 years of age. He came from Burma (where he had been assistant conservator of forests for ten years) in 1901 and has written many useful reports on the forestry of the Malay Peninsula.
      (From Our Own Correspondent.)
      Kuala Lumpur
      My Burn Murdoch died as the result of a stroke. He had only recently returned from leave.


      Footnotes
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      [1] The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, 7 March 1914, Page 7

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 7 Jul 1868 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 5 Mar 1914 - Selangor, Malaysia Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S0149] Ancestry, Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950, (ancestry.co.uk), 1868, Alfred Maule Burn-Murdoch; FHL Film Number: 6035516.

    2. [S0119] Ancestry, England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1858-1966, 1973-1995, (ancestry.com), 1914, Alfred Maule Burn Murdoch.

    3. [S0078] Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families (5th Edition), 1905, Burn-Murdoch; page 190.

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

    5. [S0385] Ed. Peter Beauclerk Dewar, Burke's Landed Gentry 19th Edition (Scotland), (Wilmington, Delaware, 2001), 2001, Burn-Murdoch; Volume 1; Pages 1061-1063.