Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Samson was christened on 25 May 1760, in Dreghorn, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, James Samson, was 31 and her mother, Isabell ADAMSON, was 29. She married Andrew Jamieson on 20 October 1785, in St Quivox, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters.
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- Mary Adamson, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Margaret Samson, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
- Mary Samson in entry for Katharine Salmond Jamieson, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
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World Events (6)
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.
1822 · Visit of King George IV to Scotland organized by Sir Walter Scott.
The Visit of King George IV was organized by Sir Walter Scott two years after the Radical War ended. For the celebration of the visit, the creation of the Tartan Kilts came about and were worn by all men attending the celebration. These types of kilts have become part of Scotland's national identity.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Armand, Jacques, Andre, Alain, Herve, Pierre, Adelard, Arianne, Cecile, Dieudonne, Gedeon, Henri.
English, Welsh, French, Breton, German, Dutch, Jewish, Filipino, African (mainly Nigeria, Tanzania, and Ethiopia), and West Indian (mainly Haiti); Hungarian (Sámson): from the Biblical personal name Samson (Hebrew Shimshon, a diminutive of shemesh ‘sun’). Among Christians it was sometimes chosen as a personal name or nickname with reference to the great strength of the Biblical hero (Judges 13–16). In Wales another association was with the 6th-century Welsh bishop Samson, who traveled to Brittany, where he died and was greatly venerated. His name, which is probably an altered form of an unknown Celtic original, was popularized in England by Breton followers of William the Conqueror, and to some extent independently from Wales. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century. In France, this surname is most common in Morbihan (Brittany). Compare Sampson . — Note: Since Ethiopians do not have hereditary surnames, the Ethiopian name was registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US.
Filipino: Chinese Filipino surname formed with Chinese 孫 or sūn ‘grandchild’ as the second element. The first element, 三 in Chinese, means ‘third’, a reference to birth order. See also 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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