| He got a charter of the lands of Egerness and Ballinsteir in 1508, and was ancestor of the Hurrays of Broughton, in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. From this gentleman was descended George Murray of Broughton, Gentleman of the Bedchamber, who succeeded his father David about the year 1602, and married Isabel Vans, and whose grandson, Richard Murray of Broughton and Gaily, and Killybegs, co. Donegal, married Anna, daughter and heiress of Alexander Lennox of Gaily. Richard was M.P. for Wigtownshire, 1661-63, and for the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, 1678, and acquired the Irish property of the Earls of Annandale by conveyance from the last Earl. His sons, John and Alexander, were successively Lairds of Broughton and Members of Parliament for the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. The latter married Euphemia Stewart, daughter of the sixth Earl of Galloway; and their son James, also M.P. for both the Stewartry and the Shire, had one daughter by his wife Catherine Stewart, daughter of the seventh Earl of Galloway, who died s.p. 1777. Alexander Murray of Broughton, M.P. for the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, 1838-45, dying childless in 1845, this family is now represented by Horatio Granville Murray-Stewart, Esq. of Broughton, Gaily, and Killybegs, co. Donegal, Ireland, J.P. and D.L. for the counties of Wigtown, Kirkcudbright, and Donegal (High Sheriff, 1858), grandson of the late Lieutenant-General the Honble. Sir William Stewart, G.O.B., second son of the seventh Earl of Galloway.3 |