My rationale for assembling and typing up these genealogies can be summed up by a glance at a letter Aunt Mercedes sent to my mother shortly after I was born. (The letter can be found here). In it she says she is leaving these works as a legacy for the descendants of the "Murray Girls". The copies that went to my mother are now falling apart, and it seemed a shame that so much effort should go to waste. So, I have typed them all up in Microsoft Word, and saved them as web pages. In this new electronic format they should now endure for at least a few more decades, at which point it will be the task of some future Murray descendant with too much free time to translate them into whatever format will then be current.
I do not really expect anyone to read these through from beginning to end. Quite likely I myself am the only person ever to have done so since Aunt Mercedes compiled them and then only because I was typing them. If a casual reader is looking for a dramatic highlight, I suggest going straight to Part 5 of the Toy genealogy. Incidentally, the Toy genealogy originally existed as one enormous document over 30 single spaced typewritten pages in length. Using my own authority I have divided it into 6 sections, in hopes of making it a little more digestible.
Please excuse the numerous errors and typos which appear in these documents. I am not a proffessional typist; moreover the originals were sometimes difficult to decipher. In order to avoid false interpretations on my part, I have transcribed the genealogies "as is", making corrections only where they were obviously warranted, for example in cases where a person died before they were born and so forth. The apparent instances of inbreeding have been accepted at face value. After all, they might explain something about the Murray clan's more picturesque qualities.
In all seriousness, I cannot help but be impressed by the heroic amount of effort that Aunt Mercedes devoted to this topic. I still remember visiting her and the mysterious Aunt Julia in their brownstone in the wilds of Baltimore. If she was a trifle eccentric, she was also a charming and cultured lady, easily the most colorful of all the Murrays.
So, without further ado, just click on the document you want to read.
Paul Emmett Creedon, transcriber