Brief Life History of David
When David Wallace was born on 25 October 1795, in Dysart, Fife, Scotland, his father, William Wallace, was 25 and his mother, Margaret Philp, was 21. He married Mary Chalmers in 1818, in Markinch, Fife, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1841 and Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom for about 10 years. He died about 1841, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 47.
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- David Wallace, "Scotland Census, 1861"
- David Wallace, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- David Wallace, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
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1802 · John Playfair publishes summary of James Hutton's theories of geology.
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.
1811 · The Tron Riot
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.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English: variant of Wallis , especially in Scotland, where the name was introduced from the Welsh Marches by a family of tenants of the Stewarts in the 12th century.
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish (Ashkenazic) surnames, e.g. Wallach .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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