When John Neilson was born about 1829, in Kirkfieldbank, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, James Neilson, was 27 and his mother, Elisabeth Coates, was 31. He married Agnes Wilson Crosbie on 3 April 1857, in Carluke, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1871 and Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1881. He died on 26 May 1888, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 60.
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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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English and Scottish: variant of Nielson 1, or an Anglicized form of McNeil .
English: variant of Nelson .
Americanized form of Swedish Nilsson or Danish, Norwegian, and North German Nielsen (compare Neilsen ) or Nilsen . Compare also Nelson and Nielson .
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