When Margaret Jamison was born on 30 August 1740, in Abbey, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Alexander Jamison, was 25 and her mother, Marion or Margaret Farrier, was 21. She lived in Eaglesham, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1740.
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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 defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
The Scottish Reform Act was introduced by Parliament that introduced changes to the election laws in Scotland. The Act didn’t change the method of how the counties elected members but adopted a different solution for each pair of counties. Ultimately, it brought about boundary changes so that some burghs would have more say for the country than others.
English and Scottish: from Middle English and Scots Jami(e)son, Jameson, Jem(i)son ‘son of James’ (see James ). Jameson and Jamison are mainly found in northern England, especially in Northumberland and Durham, while in Scotland the more usual form is Jamieson , but all three versions occur on either side of the border.
Scottish: variant of McCamish .
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