When Helen Lauriston was born in 1685, in Corstorphine, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Archibald Lauriston, was 28 and her mother, Marion Young, was 21. She married George Walker on 20 July 1705, in Corstorphine, Midlothian, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters.
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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.
Scottish: habitational name from Lauriston in Edinburgh, which gets its name from the Scots personal name or surname Laurie or Lowrie + genitive -s + toun ‘settlement, town’.
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