When Alexander Murray was born about 1797, in Inch, Wigtownshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, James Murray, was 27 and his mother, Isabella Montgomery, was 31. He married Jean Earle on 1 July 1823, in Inch, Wigtownshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland in 1861 and Penninghame House, Wigtownshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1871. He died in 1872, in Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 76.
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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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