| FAMILY RESEARCH covering McGURN, HARRIS, STABLES & OWENS |
| I started researching the family tree in 1988 when my late sister Kathleen suggested it would be a good idea. I had since the early 1980's been doing the history of the village where I live in West Sussex so had some idea on how to go about it. Our family name was McGURN and when I started doing the research I thought that as it wasn't such a common name (The only other McGurn I had heard of was "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn) I thought it would be so easy. How wrong I was. It wasn't until I got a computer and got onto the Internet that I was able to find out more. Family folklore was that great grandfather Philip McGurn had been born in Ireland and as he didn't want to go into the family business he left and set sail for Liverpool where he put down his roots. WRONG It turns out he was actually born in Liverpool so it must have been his father, our g-g-grandfather who left Ireland. This is where I have hit a brick wall. On the census of 1881 there are 3 men whose date of birth would fit in with my line who had put down their place of birth as being Ireland. One has a name that has run down one of the branch lines. He is CHRISTOPHER McGURN b 1814 and his wife MARY b 1820 both born Leitrim. These two seem to be a strong possibilty as females in the family line have also been called Mary. On the Maternal side there is more information. Robert Edward McGurn married Eleanor HARRIS and it is on Eleanor's side of the family that I have been able to get more information including photo's. Presumably this is because the Eleanors family hadn't liked the idea that she had married "that Irishman" so no photos kept via my branch. Not a lot of info either and what I had been given has proved to be not quite right. On the following pages can be found a brief outline of the family. The McGurn page gives details of members of some of my McGurn's. |
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