When Bruce Sutherland was born on 4 August 1842, in Heogan, Bressay, Shetland, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Gilbert Sutherland, was 36 and her mother, Bruce Morrison, was 37. She married William Laurenson on 20 October 1868, in Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Tingwall, Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1861 and Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland, United Kingdom for about 10 years. She died in 1899, in Dakar, Dakar, Senegal, at the age of 57, and was buried in Dakar, Senegal.
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The Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868 was passed by Parliament and allowed for the creation of seven additional Scottish seats in the House of Commons. Along with the seats, Two University constituencies were created. These each returned one member to Parliament.
Scottish (Caithness): habitational name from the Scottish county of Sutherland, named with Old Norse súthr ‘south, southern’ + land ‘land’ because the territory lay south of Scandinavia and the Norse colonies in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
History: This is the name of a Highland Scottish clan associated with the county of Sutherland.
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