When Alexander Muir was born in 1553, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, his father, Sir Robert Muire, was 19 and his mother, Alice Tomlinson, was 23. He married Agnes Mcjorrow on 13 June 1735, in Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived on a moor, from Older Scots muir ‘moor’ (an expanse of bare, wild upland country). There has been some confusion with Mure .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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