Tour Scotland Video Elizabeth Murray Window St Cuthbert's Church Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the Elizabeth Murray memorial stained glass window in St Cuthbert's Church, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Edinburgh. Elizabeth Murray died 1898, window donated by her sister Helen wife of Reverend James MacGregor, senior minister one of H.M. Chaplains.

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, or Moreb; the b here was pronounced as v, hence the Latinization to Moravia. These names 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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