When Helen Johanna Bruce was born on 15 November 1803, in Whalsay, Shetland, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Robert Bruce, was 37 and her mother, Ursilla Katherine Bruce, was 33. She married Robert Hunter on 11 August 1824, in Nesting, Shetland, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 6 May 1881, in Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 77.
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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.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from a place in Normandy, probably from Brix (La Manche).
Altered form of French Brousse .
History: The son of the Domesday baron, a friend of David I of Scotland, was granted by him the Lordship of Annandale in 1124, and his second son Robert became the founder of the Scottish house of Bruce. — This surname (see 2 above) is listed along with its original form Brousse in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
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