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unusual facts about Margaret McMurray


Margaret McMurray

Despite their similar appearance, the names 'McMurray' and 'Murray' come from separate origins, the former being related to the Murphys in Ireland and the Murchisons in the Scottish Highlands, and the latter's origin being de Moray (of Moray).


Maybole

Margaret McMurray (??-1760), one of the last native speakers of a Lowland dialect of Scottish Gaelic is recorded to have lived at Cultezron (not to be confused with nearby Culzean), a farm on the outskirts of Maybole.


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