When Hiram Murray was born in May 1818, in Claremont, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Asahel Murray, was 44 and his mother, Permelia Brownson, was 39. He died on 22 March 1819, in Williston, Chittenden, Vermont, United States, at the age of 0, and was buried in Richmond, Chittenden, Vermont, United States.
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 .
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