When Effie May Armstrong was born on 1 July 1872, in Warsaw, Benton, Missouri, United States, her father, Thomas J Armstrong, was 32 and her mother, Adelaide Louise Murray, was 30. She lived in Clay, Adair, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 8 July 1874, in Edinburg, Scotland, Missouri, United States, at the age of 2, and was buried in Memphis, Missouri, United States.
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English and Scottish (mainly Northumberland and the Scottish Borders): nickname from Middle English arm + strang, for someone who was ‘strong in the arm’.
Irish (Ulster): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Labhradha Tréan ‘strong O'Lavery’ or Mac Thréinfhir, literally ‘son of the strong man’.
History: This surname was brought to PA, NJ, and NH in the 18th century by several different families of northern Irish and northern English Protestants. One such was James Armstrong, who emigrated from Fermanagh to Cumberland County, PA, in 1745; another was John Armstrong (1720–95), who settled in Carlisle, PA, c. 1748.
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