When William Neil Sutherland was born in 1869, in Earltown, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, William Neil Sutherland, was 33 and his mother, Sybilla Murray, was 31. He died in 1890, in Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 21, and was buried in Earltown Village Cemetery, Earltown, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Scottish (Caithness): habitational name from the Scottish county of Sutherland, named with Old Norse súthr ‘south, southern’ + land ‘land’ because the territory lay south of Scandinavia and the Norse colonies in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
History: This is the name of a Highland Scottish clan associated with the county of Sutherland.
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