Thomas Rutherford was born about 1798, in Northumberland, England. He married Janet Sutherland on 1 June 1820, in Latheron, Caithness, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Olrig, Caithness, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1841 and Cunningham, Ayrshire, Scotland in 1851. He died on 8 December 1879, in West Kilbride, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 82.
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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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