Howdy from California

**McElmurry** · 11th April 10, 08:28 PM

Howdy,

I came across your site while researching my ancestors in preparation for attending the Sacramento Valley Scottish Games and Festival. So far I have discovered:

My mother’s maiden name is McElmurry. Her father stood over 6 feet tall and had red hair. His mother was a McCollum. My father’s mother was a Mitchell and her mother was a Creighton. Other names further back include Ramage and McCord. So I guess that makes me (at least partially) a Hebridean Ulster Scot with borderland and lowland accents. Probably explains my love for sailing in the cold and foggy San Francisco Bay and my need to hike to high places (I have bagged 25 California County high points and six 14ers).

My wife’s grandfather (actually a great uncle) is Leslie Gordon, which may be two for one but we haven’t researched him yet. He is not in her bloodline which is nearly pure DAR English.

I am considering joining the Clan Morrison Society of North America as it seems to be the best link of a modern clan association to my mother’s maiden name. My wife and I are enjoying perusing the tartan data base and a kilt may be in my future.

Great site you have here.

**BoldHighlander** · 11th April 10, 10:55 PM

...from the far nw corner of Washington state!

**Downunder Kilt** · 11th April 10, 11:33 PM

Hi from downunder and welcome. My only word of advice, at present, is
Get a Kilt NOW!!!!!!!!

**ThistleDown** · 12th April 10, 12:22 AM

Welcome, from Inverness-shire and British Columbia.

**Chas** · 12th April 10, 01:58 AM

Hello McElmurry,

Welcome to XMarks from the other side of the Atlantic in Norfolk, England.

Regards

Chas

**McClef** · 12th April 10, 04:05 AM

from South Wales UK!

**KFCarter** · 12th April 10, 04:25 AM

Hello and welcome from Savannah, GA.

**cessna152towser** · 12th April 10, 04:42 AM

from the Scottish Borders.

I am fascinated by your wife's maiden name McElmurry.
My wife has an ancestry line McIlmorrow from Dailly in Ayrshire in Scotland. For some reason they changed their surname to McMurray in the early 1800's.
There are no McIlmorrow's in Scotland nowadays but I have discovered McLemores in USA descended from a branch of the same McIlmorrow family and indeed there is a two hundred year old tombstone in Dailly kirk yard for a McIlemorrow which appears to be another spelling of the same name. So your wife could possibly be related to my wife!!!