Brief Life History of William
When William Scott was born about 1859, in New Brunswick, Canada, his father, Daniel Scott, was 26 and his mother, Jemima Fillmore, was 23.
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Family Time Line
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- Legacy NFS Source: William Scott - Published information: Family genealogies: birth: about 1859; New Brunswick, Canada
Parents and Siblings
1835– Male
1837– Female
Siblings (9)
1855– Male
1857– Male
about 1859– Male
1860– Male
1861– Female
+4 More Children
World Events (3)
1867 · British North America Act
Age 8
1869
Age 10
1871
Age 12
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish (Down): habitational and ethnic name from Middle English Scot ‘man from Scotland’. There is no evidence that the surname denoted either of the earlier senses of Scot as ‘(Gaelic-speaking) Irishman’ or ‘man from Alba’, the Gaelic-speaking region of Scotland north of the river Forth. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
English and Scottish: from the rare Middle English personal name Scot (Old English Scott, possibly also Old Norse Skotr), only certainly attested in northern England.
English: variant of Scutt .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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