Brief Life History of George
When George Dick was born on 28 July 1710, in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, his father, William Dick, was 22 and his mother, Isabel Morison, was 22. He married Margaret Drysdale on 22 July 1737, in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter.
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- George Dick, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Church registers - Old parish registers - Banns and Marriages for George Dick & Margaret Drysdale
- George Dick in entry for David Dick, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
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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.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Dick, also found as Dike and Deke, pet forms of Rick (see Richard ). Although found in every part of Britain, the form Dick is especially common in Scotland, and it was from there, in the 17th century, that the surname was taken to northern Ireland and thence to North America.
English: variant of Dyke .
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from Middle High German dic(ke) ‘thick, strong, stout’, or in the case of the Jewish name from German dick or Yiddish dik ‘fat’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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