Brief Life History of David
When David Fotheringham was born on 14 December 1701, in Tulliallan, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Fotheringham, was 27 and his mother, Katherine Drysdale, was 30. He married Janet Peacock about 1739, in Tulliallan, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He died in Rosyth, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, and was buried in Rosyth, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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- David Fothringhame, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- David Fotheringhame in entry for James Fotheringhame, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
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World Events (2)
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Fotheringham near Forfar, a place which takes its name from a corruption of the name of a family who migrated to Angus from Fotheringhay in Northamptonshire, which was held in the 12th century by the royal family of Scotland as part of the honor of Huntingdon. The Northamptonshire place appears in Domesday Book as Fodringeia, probably from Old English fōdring ‘grazing’ (a derivative of fōdor ‘fodder’) + ēg ‘island, low-lying land’. In the case of the Scottish place, the final element was replaced by -hām ‘homestead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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