Janet Scoular was born about 1800, in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. She married Robert Aird on 27 April 1823, in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 7 February 1873, in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 74.
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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 defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
The Scottish Insurrection was a week of strikes and unrest with demands for reform in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The economic downturn after the Napoleonic war ended, brought increasing unrest with the Artisan workers in Scotland, seeking action to reform the government. But the insurrection was largely forgotten about, as attention was focused on the better publicized Radical events in England.
Scottish: nickname or status name from Older Scots scolar ‘student’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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