When Janet Ramsay was christened on 19 January 1741, in Dysart, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, David Ramsay, was 34 and her mother, Janet Nicol, was 11738.
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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.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Scottish and English: variant (the usual spelling in Scotland) of Ramsey . The Scottish Ramsays derive from Simund de Ramesie, recorded before 1175, who went to Scotland from Ramsey (Huntingdonshire).
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