When Margaret Simpson was born on 14 November 1793, in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Robert Simpson, was 29 and her mother, Margaret Reid, was 25. She married Archibald Wilson on 10 February 1822, in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Cunningham, Ayrshire, Scotland in 1851. She died on 12 May 1868, in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 74.
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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.
The Tron riot was a riot which occurred in Edinburgh, Scotland on New Year's Eve. A group of young men attacked and robbed wealthier passers-by. One police officer was killed in the riot. Though the total count of participants is unknown, sixty-eight youths were arrested, with five sentenced to death for their actions during the riot.
The United Kingdom Parliament helped Scotland by creating the divisions necessary for better construction of their judiciary system. The Act was later repealed by the Court of Session Act 1988.
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.
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