When Murray Douglas Pontifex was born on 6 March 1955, his father, Douglas Lovell Pontifex, was 29 and his mother, Helen Jones, was 21. He died on 11 February 2011, in Morden, Manitoba, Canada, at the age of 55, and was buried in Morden, Manitoba, Canada.
Either a transferred use of the Scottish surname, in origin a local name from the region now called Moray, or an Anglicized form of Muireach, a contracted form of Muireadhach ( see Murdo ).
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