When Andrew Warnock was born on 2 April 1763, in Abbey, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, John Warnock, was 41 and his mother, Agnes Young, was 31. He married Elizabeth Brown on 30 October 1790, in Abbey, Renfrewshire, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He died about 1827, at the age of 65.
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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.
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.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Scottish (Lanarkshire) and northern Irish: shortened form of Mac Warnock, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Mhearnóg ‘son of the devotee of Saint Mearnóg’, a hypocoristic form of Earnóg. Saint Mearnóg ‘My Earnóg’ is the patron saint of Kilmarnock in Scotland, and can be identified with Earnán or Tearnóg ‘Thy Earnóg’ of Kilnasaggart in south Armagh. As a sept of the Grahams in Scotland, the surname might also be replaced by Graham . Compare Warnick .
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