When Alexander Murdoch was born on 10 June 1750, in Duffus, Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Alexander Murdoch, was 32 and his mother, Jean Simson, was 15. He had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with Elspet Peddie. He died about 1783, at the age of 34.
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Scottish: from an Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal names Muireadhach ‘mariner’, Murchadh ‘sea-warrior’, and Muircheartach ‘sea-ruler’, the first element in each being muir ‘sea’. The personal name was introduced into Yorkshire and Normandy by Norsemen from Ireland as early as the 10th century. The surname in post-Conquest medieval England usually belongs to Norman families.
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