Janet Steel

Female30 June 1784–5 June 1852

Brief Life History of Janet

When Janet Steel was born on 30 June 1784, in Whitburn, West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Edward Steel, was 37 and her mother, Elizabeth Douglas, was 27. She married John Russell on 24 January 1808, in Whitburn, West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom. She died on 5 June 1852, in her hometown, at the age of 67, and was buried in Whitburn, Linlithgowshire, Scotland.

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Family Time Line

Walter Taylor
1790–1825
Janet Steel
1784–1852
Marriage: 5 December 1824
James Mitchell Taylor
1824–1867
Marion Wylie Taylor
1824–

Sources (10)

  • Janet Steel, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
  • Janet Steele, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
  • Janet Steel, "Find A Grave Index"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    5 December 1824Whitburn, West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Children (2)

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    Siblings (4)

    World Events (6)

    1802 · John Playfair publishes summary of James Hutton's theories of geology.

    Age 18

    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

    Age 31

    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""""."""

    Age 36

    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

    English: variant of Steele .

    Americanized form (translation into English) of German Stahl and Swedish Ståhl or Stål, all meaning ‘steel’.

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

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