McKenzie Tartan
MURCHISON Family History
CREST: Crown-Loyalty and Achievement; Laurel Wreath-Victory and Leadership, Achievement of Ideals
HAND: Friendship and Hospitality
MOTTO: Fearless or Undaunted
COLORS: Red-Courage; Green-Strength and Vigor; Gold-Firmness and Character; Black-Secrecy and Solidity
Surnames were not used in Gaelic names until the last part of the 16th Century. Murchison derives from MAC (son of) Mhurchaidh (Murdoch). From the year 1400, the sept of Murchison was identified with the Clan Donald McKenzie. Kenneth McKenzie was the first chief of the sept known today as Murchison.
The Highland parishes of Scotland in general kept poor records, possibly because they relied on oral tradition or possibly because few spoke English and Gaelic in general was not used as a written language. Records exist of the sept known today as Murchison in the parish register at Inverness.
MURCHISON Family Line
John Murchison (parents not yet identified) married Mary Ann Summers Purse (daughter of Thomas and Mary Jane (Pilkington) Purse)
Mary Ellen Murchison married Cornelius Decatur Rogers
Margaret Murchison Rogers married James Tinley Ryder
Mary Ella Ryder married Z.L. Chancellor
Margaret Ryder Chancellor married Lewis G. Bowdoin
Margaret Ellen Bowdoin married Robert Floyd Lewin
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