Tour Scotland Video George Murdoch Gravestone Howff Cemetery Dundee

Tour Scotland travel video of the George Murdoch, Maltman, gravestone in the Howff Graveyard on ancestry, history visit and trip to Dundee.
This interesting name is Gaelic in origin, and is the Anglicized form of two Gaelic personal names that, over time, have coalesced into one, usually written as " Muireadhach ". The two original names were " Muiredach ", a derivative of " muir ", sea, which meant " belonging to the sea ", a mariner and " Murchad ", meaning " sea warrior ". The resulting personal name was introduced into Yorkshire, England, before the Norman Conquest of 1066 by Norwegians from Ireland, and is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Murdac, Murdoc and Meurdoch. The modern surname is thought of as Scottish, but it was not until the reign of William the Lion, King of Scotland, born 1165, died 1214, that one Walter Murdoch is recorded as witness to several charters.

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