When Agnes Ferrier was born on 17 May 1752, in Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland, her father, James Ferrior, was 25 and her mother, Isabel Gray, was 23. She married James Craig on 23 April 1768, in Barony, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters.
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Scottish and English: occupational name for a smith, one who shoed horses, from Old French ferrier ‘blacksmith, ironworker’ (medieval Latin ferrarius, from ferrus ‘horseshoe’, from Latin ferrum ‘iron’). Compare Farrier , Farrar .
Scottish and English: occupational name for a ferryman, from Middle English ferier(e) ‘ferryman’. Black reports that lands called Ferrylands in Dumbarton, by a ferry across the Clyde, belonged to Robert Ferrier in 1512.
French: occupational name from Old French ferrier ‘blacksmith, farrier’ (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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