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Mexborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
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George Murray1863 - 1947
Ellen _____1867 - 1946
Families
George Murray and Nellie Unknown (1)

GIVE THEM FLOWERS NOW!

RETRIED BANDMASTER AND MRS MURRAY OF MEXBOROUGH

RETRIED BANDMASTER AND MRS MURRAY celebrated their Diamond Wedding in April last. They were both Salvationists before they married and have remained to this day. The Bandmaster, even at the advanced age of eighty regularly attends the Sunday morning and evening meetings and is often accompanied by his wife.

The Bandmaster was commissioned a Bandsman in 1889 and later became the Band Sergeant, this appointment being followed soon after by the Bandmastership from which he retired in 1919. His mother died when he was quite young and after her death he often used to sit on the doorstep of the public house waiting for his father to take him to their lodgings. When his father died he was left to fend for himself at eleven years of age.

He followed The Salvation Army during the Sheffield riots and soon after was converted. He remembers the time when “War Cry’s” were heard in the public houses in Mexborough, and when marching down Garden Street the Salvationists were pelted with cabbage and other refuse. They were know in Mexborough by the name “Jockeys” because the (ILLEGIBLE SECTION) was a converted jockey.

The Bandmaster was first attracted to his wife when she volunteered to play the drum on the march in Doncaster when they went from Mexborough to hold some Meetings, during a rough period for the Salvationists. Mrs Murray, when converted in the early days at Mexborough promptly took all the flowers and feathers out of her hats and soon word got out.

At the Diamond Wedding celebration the relatives arranged a programme, the Bandmaster and his Wife, their daughters, grand-children and great grand-children, took part assisted by the Band and Songsters.

Harold C McArdle, Major

Published by Salvationist Publishing

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