When William Lindsay was born on 13 August 1820, in Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, John Lindsay, was 45 and his mother, Agnes Scott, was 45. He married Grace Livingston in February 1841, in New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1841 and Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom for about 10 years. He died on 24 February 1880, in Catrine, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 59.
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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 ).
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