When Philander Young Irvine was born in 1809, in Virginia, United States, his father, Andrew Erwin, was 31 and his mother, Mary Polly Houston, was 30. He married Sarah Palmore Brown in 1835, in Fairville, Saline, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Miami Township, Saline, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Missouri, United States in 1870. He died on 2 February 1879, at the age of 70.
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Scottish, also common in northern Ireland: habitational name from Irvine in Ayrshire, which is named from a Celtic river, Welsh ir, yr ‘green, fresh’ + afon ‘water’. There has been much confusion with Irving and Irwin .
Irish: variant of Irvin .
English: variant of Erwin .
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