When Dougald Muir was born in 1642, in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, William Muir, was 27 and his mother, Janit Shew, was 28. He married Helen Campbell about 1669, in Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died in 1673, in his hometown, at the age of 31.
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Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived on a moor, from Older Scots muir ‘moor’ (an expanse of bare, wild upland country). There has been some confusion with Mure .
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