William Morrison Gravestone Kinfauns Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of the William Morrison and his wife Jean Hall gravestone in the Churchyard cemetery on ancestry visit to Kinfauns, Perthshire, Scotland. This is an Adam and Eve headstone. Morrison is an English language surname. The name is derived from a patronymic form of the English Morris. The personal name Morris sometimes is a variant of Maurice, and was quite popular in the Middle Ages. In Scotland the surname is sometimes also an Anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic MacGilleMhuire, a surname meaning " son of the servant of the Virgin Mary ". The Scottish surname Morrison is also sometimes an Anglicised form of the Irish O'Muirghesasain, meaning " descendant of Muirgheas ". In Ireland the surname is sometimes an Anglicised form of the Irish Mac Muiris, a surname derived from the patronymic form of Muiris. The Irish personal name Muiris derives from the Gaelic adjective Mor or the Gaelic word Muir.

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