Murfree History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Murfree family

The surname Murfree was first found in County Wexford (Irish: Loch Garman), founded by Vikings as Waesfjord, and located in Southeastern Ireland, in the province of Leinster, where they held a family seat from very early times.

Early History of the Murfree family

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Murfree Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Murphy, Morchoe, O'Murphy, Murfie, Murfree, Morfie, Morfey and many more.

Early Notables of the Murfree family

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Murfree migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Murfree Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Arthur Murfree, who landed in Virginia in 1699 1

Contemporary Notables of the name Murfree (post 1700) +

William Hardy Murfree (1781-1827), American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina (1813-1817), Member of the North Carolina General Assembly in 1805, son of Hardy Murfree
Hardy Murfree (1752-1809), American lieutenant colonel from North Carolina during the American Revolutionary War, eponym of Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Mary Noailles Murfree (1850-1922), American fiction writer of novels and short stories from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, who wrote under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock, great-granddaughter of Colonel Hardy Murfree

Citations +

Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)