Morrow Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Morrow Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Morrow

The Morrow family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. The name Morrow can be of English and Irish origin. When of English origin it is usually a locality name meaning 'of the moor row', from a person who lived in a cottage on the moor. In this form it spread to Ireland and in particular into Ulster Province. In Ireland the name is an abbreviated form of McMurrough which is a very famous name in Irish histrory. It was Dermot McMurrough the King of Leinster who sought help from Henry II, an event which precipitated the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1172, led by Strongbow. His desendant Art McMurrough, 1357-1417, also King of Leinster , did much to remove the opprobrium, consequently glorifying the name by his continuous and successful resistance to the English invaders. The famous sept of McMurrough later split into a number of branches, giving the names Kavanagh, Kinsella, Murphy and Davis.