When Agnes Neilson was born on 16 September 1792, in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, John Nelson, was 26 and her mother, Janet Cowe, was 23. She married James Hastie on 21 February 1814, in Canongate, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Dunbar, Haddingtonshire, Scotland in 1792. She died on 1 September 1866, in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 73.
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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 The Act was later repealed by the Court of Session Act 1988.
English and Scottish: variant of Nielson 1, or an Anglicized form of McNeil .
English: variant of Nelson .
Americanized form of Swedish Nilsson or Danish, Norwegian, and North German Nielsen (compare Neilsen ) or Nilsen . Compare also Nelson and Nielson .
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