Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Nimmo was born on 9 November 1728, in Linlithgow, Linlithgowshire, Scotland, her father, William Nimmo, was 25 and her mother, Mary Mitchel, was 31. She married James Shanks on 12 May 1750, in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1728.
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- Margaret Nimmo, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Margaret Nimmo, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
- Margaret Nimmo in entry for Helen Shanks, "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.
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: possibly a nickname from Scottish Gaelic nèamhach ‘angel’
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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