When Samuel Aloysius Murray was born in June 1869, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, William Murray, was 43 and his mother, Margaret C Hannigan, was 42. He married Jennie Dean Kershaw on 20 March 1916. He lived in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. He died on 3 November 1941, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Cathedral Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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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