Johnson / Bryans Families

Tracing the ancestry of Pamela Murdoch Bryans and Maurice Alan Johnson

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Pvt. William Callander Burn-Murdoch

Military Service (Army / Canadian Light Infantry)
Male 1888 - 1915  (26 years)

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  • Name William Callander Burn-Murdoch 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Male 
    Birth 1 Jul 1888  [1] 
    Education Between 1900 and 1905  Edinburgh Academy, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Occupation Military Service (Army / Canadian Light Infantry) 
    Death 8 May 1915  Ypres, Belgium Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Siblings 3 brothers 
    Last Modified 26 Dec 2020 

    Father Archibald Murdoch Burn-Murdoch
              b. 10 Dec 1836, 13 Melville Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 30 Jun 1916 (Age 79 years) 
    Mother Mary Harriet Burn-Callander
              b. 8 Apr 1844  
              d. 6 Feb 1922 (Age 77 years) 
    Marriage 4 Nov 1874  Sevenoaks, Kent, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4] 

  • Notes 
    • Death
      The Times of the 20th of May 1915 reported his death:
      Burn-Murdoch Killed in action, on the 8th May, near Ypres, William Callander Burn-Murdoch, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, youngest son of Archibald and Mary Burn-Murdoch, 10 Merchiston Avenue, Edinburgh, aged 26.

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsEducation - Between 1900 and 1905 - Edinburgh Academy, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 8 May 1915 - Ypres, Belgium Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S0265] Edinburgh Academical Club, Edinburgh Academy Register 1824-1914, The, (Edinburgh, 1914), Page 477.

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

    3. [S0301] FamilySearch, England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005, (familysearch.org), 1874, Archibald Burn-Murdoch; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2DGX-B2J : 13 December 2014), Archibald Burn-Murdoch, 1874; from "England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1874, quarter .

    4. [S0385] Ed. Peter Beauclerk Dewar, Burke's Landed Gentry 19th Edition (Scotland), (Wilmington, Delaware, 2001), Callander of Prestonhall; p132+.