Brief Life History of Jane
When Jane Simpson was born on 25 April 1792, in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland, her father, Alexander Simpson, was 16 and her mother, Helen Elder, was 23. She married William Gibson on 1 July 1815, in New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1792. She died in 1841, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 49.
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- 1841 Scottish Census for Mrs Gibson (Jane Simpson Gibson) and children in Blackridge Coal Pit, Scotland
- Jean Simpson, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Jane Simpson, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
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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.
1811 · The Tron Riot
The Tron riot was a riot which occurred in Edinburgh, Scotland on New Year's Eve. A group of young men attacked and robbed wealthier passers-by. One police officer was killed in the riot. Though the total count of participants is unknown, sixty-eight youths were arrested, with five sentenced to death for their actions during the riot.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: patronymic from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Sim(m), Sime (see Sim ) + -son.
English: occasionally a variant of Sumsion with unrounding of the vowel before the nasal consonant, a dialect feature of southwestern England.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Simpson or one called Zemson, all in Devon. The one in Holsworthy parish derives from an uncertain first element + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the one in Diptford comes from the Old English personal name Sigewine (genitive Sigewines) + Old English tūn. Both the one in Torbryan and Zempson in Dean Prior probably also have the same origin as the Diptford placename.
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