Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Niblie was born on 24 September 1771, in Tranent, East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Archibald Niblie, was 56 and her mother, Elisabeth Douglas, was 39. She married Robert Aitken on 20 February 1789. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Tranent, Haddingtonshire, Scotland in 1771.
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- Margaret Niblie, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Margaret Niblie, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
- Margaret Niblie in entry for William Aitken, "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.
1832 · The Scottish Reform Act
The Scottish Reform Act was introduced by Parliament that introduced changes to the election laws in Scotland. The Act didn’t change the method of how the counties elected members but adopted a different solution for each pair of counties. Ultimately, it brought about boundary changes so that some burghs would have more say for the country than others.
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Scottish: see Niblock .
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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