Florence Sarah Murray

Female1867–22 July 1944

Brief Life History of Florence Sarah

Florence Sarah Murray was born in 1867, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia as the daughter of Charles Murray and Caroline Leo Barnet. She married John Mcintosh Spence on 31 August 1886, in New, Chattooga, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She died on 22 July 1944, in Haberfield, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 77.

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Family Time Line

John Mcintosh Spence
1854–1916
Florence Sarah Murray
1867–1944
Marriage: 31 August 1886
Albert Enverdale Spence
1886–1946
John Nimmo Spence
1890–1964
Norman Barrington Spence
1893–1981
Allan Campbell Spence
1899–1946
David Lee Spence
1899–1967

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  • Legacy NFS Source: Florence S Murray - Memory of Someone: birth-name: Florence S Murray

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    31 August 1886New, Chattooga, Georgia, United States
  • Children (5)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (2)

    World Events (8)

    1867

    Age 0

    End of transportation to Western Australia.

    1870

    Age 3

    British troops withdraw from Australia.

    1892

    Age 25

    Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.

    Name Meaning

    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 .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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