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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1867–1944 Female
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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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