Brief Life History of Lindley
When Lindley Murray was born on 17 April 1745, in Hanover Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, Robert Murray, was 24 and his mother, Mary Lindley, was 19. He married Hannah Dobson on 22 June 1767, in New York City, New York County, New York Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 16 February 1826, in York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 80, and was buried in York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Lindley Murray, "New York, Marriages, 1686-1980"
- Lindley Murray, "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991"
- Lindley Murray, "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices"
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1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
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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Lindley Murray MURRAY, Lindley, grammarian, was born in Swarta, Pa., April 22, 1745; son of Robert Murray, His parents were Quakers, and he was educated in the Friends school in Philadelphia. His fa …
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