Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Stitt was born on 1 March 1764, in Durisdeer, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Robert Steele, was 32 and her mother, Janet Gibson, was 28. She married John Watson on 28 April 1780, in Lamington, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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- Margaret Stitt, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Margaret Stitt, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
- Margaret Stit in entry for James Watson, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
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1802 · John Playfair publishes summary of James Hutton's theories of geology.
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
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
Name Meaning
Scottish (Dumfriesshire) and English: possibly in some instances from Scots steet ‘prop, support’, a variant of stut which is also recorded in this sense from northern England (compare Stant ). Alternatively, there is Old Norse stytti, which is found in the same sense as stytting ‘shortening; shortness, unfriendliness’, and may be the source of a lost English or Scots word.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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