When Catherine Morgan was born on 21 August 1811, in Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, John Morgan, was 34 and her mother, Catherine Harris, was 33.
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Welsh (especially Glamorgan): from the medieval Welsh personal name Morgan, Morgant (Old Welsh Morcant, of uncertain etymology).
Irish: importation of the Welsh surname (see 1 above), to which has been assimilated more than one Gaelic surname, notably Ó Muireagáin (see Merrigan ).
Scottish: probably from a Gaelic personal name cognate with Welsh Morcant.
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