Brief Life History of Robert
When Robert Shearer was born on 1 September 1797, in Cumbernauld, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Alexander Shearer, was 41 and his mother, Janet Allan, was 39. He married Jean White on 9 February 1827, in Cumbernauld, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851 and Partick, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1861. He died on 5 July 1880, in Cumbernauld, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 82, and was buried in Cumbernauld, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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- Robert Shearer, "Scotland Census, 1851"
- Robert Shearer, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Robert Shearer, "BillionGraves Index"
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1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1820 · "The ""Radical War""."
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English: occupational name for a reaper of standing crops, a sheep shearer, or someone who used shears to trim the surface of finished cloth and remove excessive nap, from Middle English sherer(e) ‘shearer’, an agent derivative of Middle English schere(n) ‘to shear’. Middle English schere denoted shears and scissors of all sizes. Compare Sherman .
Americanized form of German or Jewish (Ashkenazic) Scherer or Scherrer , cognates of 1 above. Compare Sharrer .
Americanized form of German Scheurer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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