When Alexander Gunn Rutherford was born about 1837, in Dunnet, Caithness, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Rutherford, was 41 and his mother, Janet Sutherland, was 40. He married Mary Allan on 24 February 1863, in Fenwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. He lived in West Linton, Peeblesshire, Scotland in 1871 and Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1881. In 1881, at the age of 45, his occupation is listed as farmer unemployed in Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom. He died in New Zealand.
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Scottish and northern English: habitational name from Rutherford in Maxton (Roxburghshire), apparently named with Old English hrīther, hrȳther ‘ox’ + ford ‘ford’, though a British Celtic origin of the type ro- ‘great’ + dubr- ‘water, river’ is also possible for the first element. Places named Rutherford in West Linton (West Lothian) and Barningham (North Yorkshire) are less likely sources of the name.
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