When Margaret Kellock was born on 28 November 1744, in Hill of Beath, Beath, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, William Kellock, was 40 and her mother, Margaret Todd, was 35. She married John Fotheringham about 1768, in Tulliallan, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 15 June 1813, in Beath, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 68.
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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.
Scottish (mainly Fife): habitational name from the lands of Killock (Ayrshire), or alternatively from Keiloch in Braemar (Aberdeenshire).
English: variant of Kellogg .
English: probably from the Middle English female personal name Ketelog, Kellok (Old Norse Ketillaug, from ketill ‘sacrificial cauldron, helmet’ + laug ‘(hot) spring, cauldron)’. It could alternatively represent the Old Norse male name Kiallakr, a borrowing of Old Irish Cellach (see Kelly ), but this Hiberno-Norse name is not recorded as a personal name anywhere in medieval England.
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