Tour Scotland video of the Elizabeth Murray memorial stained glass window in the Episcopal Church on ancestry visit to Stirling, Scotland. In memory of Elizabeth Murray, widow of John Murray of Polmaise, who died October 6th 1889, aged 86, her children gifted this window.
Murray is both a Scottish and an Irish surname with two distinct respective etymologies. The Scottish version is a common variation of the word Moray, an anglicisation of the Medieval Gaelic word Muireb. These name denote the district on the south shore of the Moray Firth, in Scotland. Murray is a direct transliteration of how Scottish people pronounce the word Moray. The Murray spelling is not used for the geographical area, which is Moray, but it became the commonest form of the surname, especially among Scottish emigrants, to the extent that the surname Murray is now much more common than the original surname Moray.
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