When John Renfrew was born on 20 September 1692, in Abbey, Renfrewshire, Scotland, his father, Alexander Renfrew, was 28 and his mother, Margaret Stewart, was 24. He married Elizabeth Henderson on 18 July 1719, in Abbey, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland in 1692.
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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.
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.
Scottish (Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire): habitational name from Renfrew (Renfrewshire), named with a British term cognate with Welsh rhynfrwd ‘point of current’.
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