Brief Life History of Christina
When Christina Lindsay was born in 1842, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, her father, William Lindsay, was 22 and her mother, Grace Livingston, was 29. She married Charles Higgins on 30 May 1862, in Sorn, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Kyle, Ayrshire, Scotland in 1851 and Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom for about 10 years. She died on 9 July 1883, in Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland, at the age of 41.
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- Christina Lindsay in household of Grace Lindsay, "Scotland Census, 1851"
- Christina Smillie Higgins in entry for James Lindsay Higgins, "Scotland, Civil Registration, 1855-1875, 1881, 1891"
- Fanny Higgins in household of Charles Higgins, "Scotland Census, 1881"
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1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1843 · The Disruption in the Church of Scotland
The Disruption of 1843 was a division within the Church of Scotland, which 474 evangelical ministers of the Church broke away from the Church to form the Free Church of Scotland. They didn’t reject the principles of the Church of Scotland but were trying to establish a purer version of the Church without the King or Parliament being its head. It had huge effects not only within the Church of Scotland, but also with Scottish civic life.
1854 · Great North of Scotland Railway
Being one of the two smallest railways in 1923, the Great North of Scotland Railway carried its first passengers from Kittybrewster to Huntly in 1854. In the 1880s the railways were refurbished to give express services to the suburban parts in Aberdeen. There were junctions with the Highland Railway established to help connect Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Moray counties. The railway started to deliver goods from the North Sean and from the whisky distilleries in Speyside. With the implementation of bus services and the purchase of the British Railway the Great North of Scotland Railway was discontinued.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Lindsey in Lincolnshire, England. This is first found in the form Lindissi, apparently a derivative of the British name of Lincoln . To this was later added the Old English element ēg ‘island’, since the place was virtually cut off by the surrounding fenland. The surname was taken to Scotland at an early date and is the name of an important and powerful Scottish family.
Irish: adopted as an equivalent ofvarious Gaelic names (see Lindsey ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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