When Edith Murray was born on 16 May 1914, in Havre de Grace, Harford, Maryland, United States, her father, Hugh J Murray, was 50 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Storey, was 38. She had at least 1 son with Creel Donald Fluharty. She lived in Harford, Maryland, United States in 1920. She died on 3 November 1976, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Angel Hill Cemetery, Havre de Grace, Harford, Maryland, United States.
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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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