Brief Life History of John
When John Dunsire was born on 22 May 1789, in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, John Dunsire, was 20 and his mother, Christian Buchan, was 21.
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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.
1820 · "The ""Radical War""."
The Scottish Insurrection was a week of strikes and unrest with demands for reform in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The economic downturn after the Napoleonic war ended, brought increasing unrest with the Artisan workers in Scotland, seeking action to reform the government. But the insurrection was largely forgotten about, as attention was focused on the better publicized Radical events in England.
Name Meaning
Scottish: locative name from Dunsyre (Lanarks).
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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