When Mary Ann Elvira Scott was born on 30 December 1826, in Covington, Alleghany, Virginia, United States, her father, William M Scott, was 32 and her mother, Catharine Major Mason, was 28. She married Robert Mason Wiley on 9 September 1845, in Alleghany, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Craig, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Sullivan, Tennessee, United States in 1880. She died on 13 March 1895, in Madison, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States.
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English, Scottish, and Irish (Down): habitational and ethnic name from Middle English Scot ‘man from Scotland’. There is no evidence that the surname denoted either of the earlier senses of Scot as ‘(Gaelic-speaking) Irishman’ or ‘man from Alba’, the Gaelic-speaking region of Scotland north of the river Forth. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
English and Scottish: from the rare Middle English personal name Scot (Old English Scott, possibly also Old Norse Skotr), only certainly attested in northern England.
English: variant of Scutt .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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