MURRAY GARTSHORE, John 1
- Born: October 1804 2
- Died: 22 June 1884, Ravelston House, Corstorphine parish, Midlothian, Scotland 1
Cause of his death was diabetes over 12 years and a cerebral embolism over 4 months.1
User ID: P559.
General Notes:
In his 1884 death certificate John Murray Gartshore was recorded as a landed proprietor maried to (1) Mary Douglas and (2) August Louisa Davel. His age at death was 79 years. His parents were deceased.
"Alexander Gartshore held the property (Gartshore) in 1713, and in 1771 John Gartshore was registered in it as heir to his grandfather. Miss Marjory Gartshore, his sister German, and only child of the deceased John Gartshore, merchant in Glasgow, succeeded in 1806 to the estates. Shfc died 9th January, 1814, and was succeeded by John Murray, second son of Sir Patrick Murray, sixth Baronet of Ochtertyre, who assumed the name of Gartshore.
Mr. Murray Gartshore was born nth October, 1804. He got a commission as ensign in the 72nd Regiment, and was gazetted 1st August, 1823. He afterwards joined the 42nd Royal Highlanders, and whilst in the army was stationed, among other places, at Gibraltar, Malta, and Corfu; was appointed Resident at Paxo in 1835, and promoted to Ithaca in 1836.
At Corfu, 5th August, 1836, he married Mary, fourth daughter of Sir Howard Douglas, Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands; and in 1840 he sold out of the army and went to live at Gartshore.
He had three children: Mary Anne Georgina; Anne, who died in 1847 and John, who died in 1857.
Mrs. Murray Gartshore, who was well known for her musical talent, died in 1851 at Ropehill, Lymington, Hants; where they had gone on account of their son's health. [....]
Mr. Murray Gartshore married secondly 29th July, 1852, Augusta Louisa, widow of the Rev. William Casabon Purdon, of Tinneranna, County Clare, Vicar of Loxley, Warwickshire; and the only child of the Rev. George F. Tavel (by Lady Augusta Fitzroy, his wife; daughter of Augustus, third Duke of Grafton). In 1870 Mr. Murray Gartshore sold the estate of Gartshore to Alexander Whitelaw, Esq., of Woodhall, and lived in Stirling till 1873, when he bought the estate of Ravelston from his nephew, Sir Patrick Keith Murray, and settled there with his family. Mr. Murray Gartshore had a paralytic shock in August, 1877, from which he never fully recovered, and on 22nd June, 1884, he peacefully breathed his last.
While resident at Gartshore he took an active interest in all the public affairs of his county and parish, and the town of Kirkintilloch, where his appearance was familiar for many years. He was a Deputy-Lieutenant for Dumbartonshire, and took a warm interest in the Volunteer movement; the 1st Dumbartonshire Regiment of Rifle Volunteers being raised by him on 1st October, 1859, of which he was commissioned Colonel. He was also Chairman of the Parochial Board for a good many years, and was especially interested and active in the movement for establishing Industrial Schools, which were the means of education being given at a nominal rate to many who would otherwise have grown up in ignorance. This was long before the days of compulsory education."
from Electric Scotland 2
Medical Notes:
Wm. Bryce MD, Edinburgh, certified the cause of death.
John Falconer, Law Agent, of 141 George Street, Edinburgh, gave notice of the death at Corstorphine on 24 June 1884. 1
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