When Mary Meek Fife was born in March 1833, in Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Fyfe, was 25 and her mother, Mary Meek Nicol, was 23. She married Mathew Wishart on 30 November 1860, in Leith, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Tulliallan, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1841 and Leith, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1861. She died on 3 January 1863, in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 29.
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Jenners was founded by Charles Jenner as a department store for the community. The original building was destroyed by a fire in 1892 but, with a new design in mind, the store was reopened in 1895 with new features. It was named Harrods of the North after it was given Royal Warrant in 1911 and was visited by Queen Elizabeth II on its 150th anniversary. It was sold to the House of Fraser in 2005, which in 2008, made much needed improvements to the store.
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
The Disruption of 1843 was a division within the Church of Scotland, which 474 evangelical ministers of the Church broke away from the Church to form the Free Church of Scotland. They didn’t reject the principles of the Church of Scotland but were trying to establish a purer version of the Church without the King or Parliament being its head. It had huge effects not only within the Church of Scotland, but also with Scottish civic life.
Scottish: habitational name from the province and former kingdom of Fife in East Scotland, a name of obscure etymology. Tradition has it that the name is derived from an eponymous Fib, one of the seven sons of Cruithne, legendary founding father of the Picts.
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