Brief Life History of Ann
When Ann Lindsay was born on 13 July 1797, in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Andrew Lindsay, was 50 and her mother, Elizabeth Locke, was 31. She married John Paterson on 10 September 1831, in Gorbals, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died about 1838, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 42.
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- Ann Lindsay, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
- Ann Lindsay Paterson in entry for Andrew Paterson, "Scotland, Civil Registration, 1855-1875, 1881, 1891"
- Ann Lindsay in entry for Ann Paterson, "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.
1811 · The Tron Riot
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.
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 Lindsey in Lincolnshire, England. This is first found in the form Lindissi, apparently a derivative of the British name of Lincoln . To this was later added the Old English element ēg ‘island’, since the place was virtually cut off by the surrounding fenland. The surname was taken to Scotland at an early date and is the name of an important and powerful Scottish family.
Irish: adopted as an equivalent ofvarious Gaelic names (see Lindsey ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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