John Newton Murray was born about 1810, in North Carolina, United States. He married Elizabeth or Betsey Benton Huffaker on 20 December 1858, in Catoosa, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Tunnel Hill, Whitfield, Georgia, United States in 1880. He died after 1880, in Catoosa, Georgia, United States, at the age of 8190.
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1810–1880 Male
1826–1889 Female
1859–1905 Male
1863–1870 Female
1873–1962 Female
Scottish: habitational name from Moray in northeastern Scotland, which derives from Celtic mori- ‘sea’ + treb- ‘settlement’. The founder of the Scottish house of Murray was a Fleming named Freskin who was granted Strathbrock in West Lothian and Duffus in Moray by David I. The family took its name from the region in the late 12th century.
Irish and Scottish: shortened form of McMurray .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muireadhaigh ‘descendant of Muireadhach’ a personal name meaning ‘mariner’. Occasionally it may be a shortened form of McMurray .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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