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http://motherbedford.com/Muirhead/Short%20History%20Of%20The%20Muirhead%20Clan.pdf
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We might begin by taking a look at the surname itself. For
purposes of this short essay, the basic form of the surname is
presented as
Muirhead
. But throughout history and among the
various families who claim descent from the ancient root, the name
has variously appeared as: Moirheid, Moorehead, Moorhead,
Mored, Morehead, Morheid, Mourheid, Muirhed, Muirheid,
Muirheyd, Murehed, Murehede, Mureheide, Murhed, Murhede,
Murheed, Murheid, Muyrheid, Mwirheid, Mwreheid, Mwrhed,
Mwrheid, Mwrheyd and Mwrhied.
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Historians have noted that the family of Muirhead was one
of the ancient families of the shire (
i.e.
county), of Lanark.
According to Alexander Nisbet,
in his book,
A System Of
Heraldry
, published in 1742:
“The Family of Muirheads of Lachop, or Muirhead of That-Ilk, has been
always repute one of the ancientest Families in all the Shire of
Lanerk.”... “The Sirname de Morehead, or Muirhead, is like other
Sirnames of the greatest Antiquity, local, taken from Lands, from whence
either the Proprietor took a Denomination, when fixed hereditary
Sirnames became customary; or took an Appellation from the Lands, as
soon as he obtained them; for it is a Maxim amongst Antiquaries, that
‘tis a sufficient Document of an ancient Descent, where the Inhabitant
has the Sirname from the Place he inhabiteth.”
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