Brief Life History of Katherine
When Katherine Nicholson was born in November 1700, in Whitekirk, East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, John Nicholson, was 29 and her mother, Agnes Deans, was 24. She married James Dalgleish on 8 November 1729, in Prestonkirk, East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons.
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- Katharine Nicolsone, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Catharine Nicolson, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
- Kathern Nicolson in entry for William Dalgleish, "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.
Name Meaning
English (northern) and Scottish: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Nic(h)olas or the vernacular form Nic(h)ol + son; see Nichol , Nicholas . In Scotland the name was sometimes substituted for McNichol .
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Nicolaisen or Nikolaisen , or of the Swedish cognate Niklasson, patronymics from equivalents of the personal name Nicholas .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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