Brief Life History of Robert
When Robert Simpson was born on 20 April 1764, in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, his father, Robert Simpson, was 30 and his mother, Agnes Crawford, was 24. He married Margaret Reid on 21 December 1789, in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1841. In 1795, at the age of 31, his occupation is listed as coal miner in Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. He died before 1869.
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- Robert Simpson, "Scotland Census, 1841"
- Alexander Simpson birth - Parish registers for Irvine
- Robert Simpson Margaret Reid marriage - Parish registers for Irvine
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1815
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Name Meaning
Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: patronymic from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Sim(m), Sime (see Sim ) + -son.
English: occasionally a variant of Sumsion with unrounding of the vowel before the nasal consonant, a dialect feature of southwestern England.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Simpson or one called Zemson, all in Devon. The one in Holsworthy parish derives from an uncertain first element + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the one in Diptford comes from the Old English personal name Sigewine (genitive Sigewines) + Old English tūn. Both the one in Torbryan and Zempson in Dean Prior probably also have the same origin as the Diptford placename.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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