Brief Life History of Jane
When Jane Love was born about 1697, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, James Love, was 35 and her mother, Margaret Watson, was 35. She married John Hunter about 1718, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She died in her hometown.
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- Jean Love in entry for James Hunter, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Jane Love in entry for William Hunter, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Jane Love in entry for John Hunter, "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: from a Middle English personal name derived from the Old English female name Lufu ‘love’, or the masculine equivalent Lufa. Compare Leaf 2.
English and Scottish: nickname from Anglo-Norman French love ‘she-wolf’ or simply ‘wolf’, the word love being a back-formation from the diminutive forms lovel and lovet ‘little wolf’. See also Low 3, from Anglo-Norman French lou, the more usual form of the word.
Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhionghuin (see McKinnon ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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