Margaret Anderson

Female23 November 1715–

Brief Life History of Margaret

When Margaret Anderson was born on 23 November 1715, in Barony, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Sir William Anderson, was 35 and her mother, Jean Hogg, was 31. She married Allan Stewart on 30 September 1730, in Govan, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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Family Time Line

Allan Stewart
1703–
Margaret Anderson
1715–
Marriage: about 1734
Margaret Stewart
1729–
Helen Stewart
1731–
Margaret Stewart
1735–
Allan Stewart
1735–
James Stewart
1737–
Margaret Stewart
1740–
Elizabeth Stewart
1740–
William Stewart
1742–

Sources (7)

  • Margaret Anderson, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
  • Margaret Anderson in entry for Allan Stewart, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
  • Margaret Anderson in entry for Margaret Stuart, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    about 1734Barony, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Children (8)

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    Siblings (5)

    World Events (3)

    1802 · John Playfair publishes summary of James Hutton's theories of geology.

    Age 87

    In 1802, John Playfair published the Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth. His influence was by James Hutton’s knowledge of the earth’s geology.

    1811 · The Tron Riot

    Age 96

    The Tron riot was a riot which occurred in Edinburgh, Scotland on New Year's Eve. A group of young men attacked and robbed wealthier passers-by. One police officer was killed in the riot. Though the total count of participants is unknown, sixty-eight youths were arrested, with five sentenced to death for their actions during the riot.

    1815

    Age 100

    The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

    Name Meaning

    Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.

    German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.

    Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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