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MURROES: Soland de Mureus who witnessed a charter by Emaldus, bishop of St. Andrews, c. 1160-62 (RPSA., p. 128), derived his name from Murroes in the perish of the same name in Angus. James Mueros, bookseller in Kilmarnock, died 1796 (Scots Magazine).
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MURROES: Soland de Mureus who witnessed a charter by Emaldus, bishop of St. Andrews, c. 1160-62 (RPSA., p. 128), derived his name from Murroes in the perish of the same name in Angus. James Mueros, bookseller in Kilmarnock, died 1796 (Scots Magazine). Miss Jessie Meuros Peat of Dunblane died 1933. The placename is now spelled Muirhouse. See Mujrhouse.
— The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)
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