When Margaret Agnes Waddell was born on 29 October 1815, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, George Waddell, was 33 and her mother, Margaret Anderson, was 35. She married James Brooks on 6 April 1837, in Plympton, Lambton, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 28 June 1899, in Plympton, Lambton, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 83, and was buried in Brooks Cemetery, Plympton-Wyoming, Lambton, Ontario, Canada.
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Dryburgh Abbey Bridge was a cable-stayed footbridge that connected the villages of Dryburgh and St. Boswells, across the River Tweed. Before its construction, A ferry crossing service had existed here for centuries. It was originally 79 meters long and was undergoing a period of rapid growth in popularity. The Bridge was completed on August 1 but a few months later it collapsed. Very shortly after the collapse, another bridge was built further downstream. A new bridge, which still stands today, was constructed after the first World War.
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
Scottish: habitational name from Wedale near Galashiels (Selkirkshire). This was also the old name of the parish of Stow in Midlothian. The placename may be from Old English wēoh ‘heathen shrine’ (and if so, an example which is unusually far north, and therefore Old English wēod ‘weed, herb’ might be preferred) + dæl ‘hollow, dell’.
English: habitational name from Wadden Hall in Waltham (Kent). The placename may derive from an Old English personal name Wæda (genitive Wæden) or Old English wāden ‘growing with woad’ + Old English halh ‘nook, corner of land’.
English: perhaps a habitational name from Woodhill Park in Clyffe Pypard (Wiltshire). The placename derives from Old English wād ‘woad’ + hyll ‘hill’. Alternatively, this name might derive from a hypothetical Middle English personal name Wadel (Old English Wædel).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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