Catherine Auld, described as a ‘Domestic Worker’, the youngest daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth Auld, married George Murray, a 22 year old labourer, on the 18th November 1873 at the family home at Milton, near Wick. George, born in Dornock, Sutherland in 1853, later became a worker on the railways.
A daughter, Elizabeth, was born in Wick during 1874; a second daughter, Christina, in Loth, Sutherland in 1876; a son, John Donald, in Kildonan, Sutherland in 1878 and a third daughter, Annie, in the same place in 1880. The 1881 Census shows the family living in Suisgill, Kildonan and their father was described as a ‘Railway Surfaceman’.
By 1891 the family had grown. They were still living at Suisgill but now they had been joined by Hugh, born in 1887 and Catherine in 1889.
The 1901 Census shows that they have moved to Carbuie in the same Kildonan area and that Christina, Hugh, David (not mentioned in the previous census as he wasn’t born until 1893), and Catherine, aged 3, were living with their parents. It would appear most probably that Catherine, born in 1889, must have died and another daughter was born in 1898 and given the same name.
George and Catherine's daughter, Annie, a Domestic Servant, was married on the 10th July 1902 in St. Donan’s Church, Kildonan to James G. Grant, a 25 year old House Painter, the son of James Grant, a Cattle Dealer, and Annie (nee Gordon). The witnesses were John Murray and Nellie I.Grant.
Catherine Murray (m.s. Auld) died of a Cerebral Hemorrhage at Suisgill, Kildonan on the 1st February 1926, aged 73. The informant on her Death Certificate was her daughter Annie Grant who was living at 30 Thomson Street, Aberdeen. Catherine’s husband, George, was still alive at this time.
Their son, John Donald, married Marion Nicolson and during the 1920’s was Station Master at Watten, Caithness until his death in the Bignold Hospital, Wick on the 11th September 1928, aged 49.