When Preston Guthrie was born on 29 July 1816, in Cabell, West Virginia, United States, his father, Robert Guthrie, was 39 and his mother, Frances Fowler, was 32. He married Eleanor "Ellen" Elvira Sprouse on 20 September 1846, in Lawrence, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Cabell, Carroll, Virginia, United States in 1850. He died on 18 August 1866, in Rome, Lawrence, Ohio, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Lawrence, Ohio, United States.
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Scottish: habitational name from a place near Forfar, named in Gaelic with gaothair ‘windy place’ (a derivative of gaoth ‘wind’) + the locative suffix -ach.
Scottish: possibly an Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mag Uchtre ‘son of Uchtre’, a personal name which is perhaps akin to uchtlach ‘child’.
Irish (Clare and Antrim): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Fhlaithimh ‘descendant of Flaitheamh’, a byname meaning ‘prince’. This is the result of an erroneous association of the Gaelic name in the form Ó Fhlaithimh (Fh being silent), with the Gaelic word laithigh ‘mud’, and of mud with gutters, and an equally erroneous association of the Scottish surname Guthrie with the word ‘gutter’. Compare Laffey .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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