When Finlay Duff was born in 1831, in Perthshire, Scotland, his father, Alexander Duff, was 29 and his mother, Margaret Keltie, was 33. He married Janet or Jane Ferguson on 1 July 1852, in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 20 June 1901, in Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland, at the age of 70.
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Irish and Scottish: from Gaelic dubh ‘dark, black’, used both as a nickname and a personal name. In Scotland, it is typically a descriptive epithet for a dark-haired man (compare Dow 1). In Ireland, it is usually from Ó Duibh ‘descendant of Dubh’ or Mac Giolla Duibh ‘son of the servant of Dubh’. It is also found as a short form of Duffin and a variant of Duffy . See also McDuff .
In some cases possibly also a shortened form of Breton Le Duff , a cognate of 1 above.
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