Brief Life History of James
When James Mccormick was born in 1729, in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Robert Mccormick, was 32 and his mother, Mary Crawford, was 24. He married Abigail Wallace on 7 May 1759, in Dalry, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 17 June 1825, in Carsphairn, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 96.
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- Janet McKornock - Scotland births - Dalry 1760
- James Mckornock, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
- James Mcornock in entry for Jean Mcornock, "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
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cormaic ‘son of Cormac’, a personal name based on corb ‘raven’ + mac ‘son’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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