When Margaret Christian Gillespie was born before 1776, in Cupar, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, William Gillespie, was 20 and her mother, Christian Macdonald, was 21. She married William Galloway before 1808, in Cupar, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 12 sons and 4 daughters. She died before 1881.
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Stirlingshire County, Scotland, UK Historical description
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Scottish and Irish (Donegal): shortened Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Easbuig, borrowed into Irish as Mac Giolla Easpaig, a patronymic from a personal name meaning ‘servant of the bishop’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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