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Paul Murray was born in Ireland in 1811 and immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of eighteen. the Murray family settled in Oxford County, Ontario, and ten years later Paul married Lucy Bruce. They bought land in Zorra and had seven children together. In May 1874, after his children were grown, Paul left Ontario and relocated in B.C., accompanied by three of his sons. Their first home in Langley was a roughly built shelter they made for themselves from a gigantic fir tree, and after his wife and two of hisdaughters arrived, they all lived there together. After these humble beginnings, Murray opened a hotel on Old Yale Road to service travelers making their way into the interior, building up a reputation as one of the finest carpenters in the area. The corner where the hotel was eventually came to be known as Murray's Corners, as the family had 160 acres of land on each corner. Murray's Corners eventually came to be known as Murrayville, and all of Paul's sons worked on Old Yale Road, building more hotels and other businesses to increase commerce. Paul was an ordained church elder, dring a time when there were no official churches and services were held in a small schoolhouse on the corner of Glover Road and Old Yale Road. Holding the title of founder of Murrayville, Paul Murray died in 1903. Murray's Corners did not officially become Murrayville until 1911, when the local post office changed its name to Murrayville Post Office.

Jane Strayhome Seeley was an early pioneer. She was born on the Isle of Man in about 1820. As a young child she moved to Belfast, but the potato famine forced her family to move to Portland, Maine. In 1885 she moved to New Brunswick, Canada. Later she moved to the St. John River Valley, before moving west to Minneapolis in 1887. She came to BC from Minneapolis in 1892. She came to live near her two sons, George and Thomas Seeley, on their ranch on Yale Road, 2.5 miles east of Murrayville. She would pass away in 1896 and is buried in Murrayville. Her late husband was named George Seeley and he was born in Cork.