Margaret Reid

Brief Life History of Margaret

Margaret Reid was born in 1768, in Dundonald, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom. She married Robert Simpson on 21 December 1789, in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She died before 1869.

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Family Time Line

Robert Simpson
1764–1869
Margaret Reid
1768–1869
Marriage: 21 December 1789
Agnes Simpson
1790–1869
Andrew Simpson
1791–1856
Margaret Simpson
1793–1868
Robert Simpson
1795–1798
Janet Simpson
1797–1873
Robert Simpson
1799–
Jean Simpson
1801–
James Simpson
1803–1886
Jane Simpson
1807–
Lawrence Simpson
1809–

Sources (33)

  • Robert Simpson birth - Parish registers for Irvine
  • Robert Simpson Margaret Reid marriage - Parish registers for Irvine
  • Margaret Reid in entry for Robert Simpson, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"

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.

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: variant of Reed , of which Reid is the common modern Scots spelling.

History: Samuel Chester Reid (1783–1861), the sea captain who designed the stars and stripes form of the present the American flag, was born at Norwich, CT. His father, Lt. John Reid, a former British naval officer of a distinguished Glasgow family, had resigned his commission and joined the cause of the American Revolution.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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