When Jeremiah E. Murray was born on 15 September 1818, in New York, United States, his father, Sanford Murray, was 46 and his mother, Mary Whitney, was 39. He died on 28 December 1845, at the age of 27, and was buried in Otego, Otego, Otsego, New York, 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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