When William Lindsay was born on 30 January 1791, in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Andrew Lindsay, was 43 and his mother, Elizabeth Locke, was 25.
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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 ).
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