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I have William G Muir b 15.9.1901 and his wife Louisa (née Graham) b. 7.5.98 returning to England from Nigeria on 29.8.58.
Can anyone find their outward jouney(s)?
Can anyone find any info on their missionary activities?
They married in 1925 in St Albans.
Did they have children?
Louisa was apparently born in Scotland, can anyone find that birth?
Louisa apparently died in 1982 registered in Solihull.
Has anyone any ideas in William's origins or death?

Thanks.

This them?

MARRIAGE. MUIR—GRAHAM.—On the 29th ult,,St. Peter's Church, St. Albans, by the Rev. L. G. Bomford, assisted the Rev. C. Shaw, Gordon, only son of the late Mr. William Muir and Mrs. Muir. Nast Hyde Farm Hatfield, Louie, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Graham 118. Brampton-road, St. Albans

Saturday 09 May 1925 , Herts Advertiser , Hertfordshire, England
http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

(I don't have a subscription to the site but managed to piece that together)

1911
East Lodge, Oaklands Park, St Albans, Herts
Thomas Hodgson Graham 49
Ruth Elizabeth Graham 46
Ernest William Graham 19
Louisa Graham 12 born Pentpont Dumfriesshire
George Carchric Graham 9

Parents born Cumberland

1901
St Albans
Thomas H Graham 39
Ruth E Graham 36
Lillie M Graham 11
Ernest W Graham 9
James A Graham 6
Louisa Graham 2

1911
New View Earl's Barton Northamptonshire
William Muir 56 Dreghorn, Ayrshire
Sarah Muir 43 born Colney Heath, Hertfordshire
William Gordon Muir born Norton Northants

Name: William Gordon Muir
Birth Date: 15 Sep 1901
Date of Registration: Dec 1972
Age at Death: 71
Registration district: Wayland
Inferred County: Norfolk
Volume: 4b
Page: 2357

William (Snr) of Greenferry Road, St Albans, died 1913 Oakland Farm, St Albans (probate register)

(Expect you can sort it out yourself)

This is him too, with Louisa on an earlier trip home

Name: W G Muir
Birth Date: abt 1902
Age: 38
Port of Departure: Lagos
Arrival Date: 2 May 1940
Port of Arrival: Liverpool, England
Ports of Voyage: Lagos
[Accra]
[Freetown]
Ship Name: Accra
Search Ship Database: View the 'Accra' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping line: Elder Dempster Lines Ltd
Official Number: 149595

Thanks gardener, spot on.

I could find plenty about missions in Nigeria but nothing mentioning him. Your best bet would be to try and find an obituary somewhere.

Thanks, I've tracked down their deaths, William in 1972 in North Pickenham in Norfolk. A London Gazette entry says he was a Clerk in Holy Orders so I'm waiting on a reply from the local church. The executors are his wife and a Francis Hedley Maynard who I am yet to find.
Louisa's death was registered in Solihull in 1982. It seems an odd place to go to retire.

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