I just received information from a distant cousin Kit Vernon <kitandco@ameritech.net> from yet another cousin Caroline Burnett Cooke that gives me cause to believe that my Murray ancestry, even if from Scotland, comes last from County Cork, followed with information previously compiled by 11/17/2003:

I’ll send you the JSM photo, and also a copy of the typescript of his letter to his daughter where he identifies his father as Irish (but no note on where he was born) and identifies Francis Murray as his father’s brother.  That’s the only info I have on ancestry of the Murray side.  I am disinclined to believe the Murrays were truly Irish; mostly the Presbyterianism, I guess.  I am inclined to think they were “oppressor class” Scots-Irish who may have lived in Ireland for a few generations.  My reading of the Syng history inclines me to a similar belief (County Cork but Anglican?).  Carole Burnett Cooke suggested to me that the Murrays were likely to have come from Cork as well, and to known the Syngs in Cork, or the Syngs would never have allowed their daughter to marry into the Murrays.  .  .  .