When Martha Blair was born on 1 August 1799, in Dervock, Derrykeighan, County Antrim, Ireland, her father, James Blair, was 57 and her mother, Mary Derrick, was 25. She married Joseph McKay about 1821, in Dervock, Derrykeighan, County Antrim, Ireland. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 13 April 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places in Scotland called Blair, named with Scottish Gaelic blàr (genitive blàir) ‘plain, field’, especially a battlefield (Irish blár). There were families of this name in the Middle Ages taking their names from any of the places called Blair in Dysart parish Fife, Dalry parish Ayrshire, and Blairgowrie in Perthshire.
Americanized form of French Belair and Blais .
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