When Elizabeth Henderson was born in September 1747, in Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, Scotland, her father, James Henderson, was 27 and her mother, Jean Frew, was 29. She died before 1751.
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English and Scottish: usually from Middle English and Older Scots Hener(i)son ‘Henry's son’, occasionally from Middle English Hendeson ‘son of Hen’, a pet form of Henry , both with an intrusive -d-. Compare Hendrie . In Scotland Henderson was sometimes substituted for McKendrick .
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