Brief Life History of Christian
When Christian Sharp was born on 31 March 1811, in Falkland, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, John Sharp, was 48 and her mother, Elizabeth Hay, was 45. She married Peter Barnet on 22 September 1833, in Cupar, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 22 September 1889, in Cupar, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 78.
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- Christian Barnett in household of Peter Barnett, "Scotland Census, 1881"
- Legacy NFS Source: Christian Sharp - Individual or family possessions: Handwritten information: birth-name: Christina Sharp
- Christian Sharp, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
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1813 · The Court of Session Act 1813
The United Kingdom Parliament helped Scotland by creating the divisions necessary for better construction of their judiciary system. The Act was later repealed by the Court of Session Act 1988.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1832 · The Scottish Reform Act
The Scottish Reform Act was introduced by Parliament that introduced changes to the election laws in Scotland. The Act didn’t change the method of how the counties elected members but adopted a different solution for each pair of counties. Ultimately, it brought about boundary changes so that some burghs would have more say for the country than others.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English sharp(e) ‘sharp, quick, smart, acute, keen-witted’ (Old English scearp).
Irish: when not the English or Scots name in 1 above, an Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Géaráin ‘descendant of Géarán’, a personal name based on a diminutive of géar ‘sharp’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Scharf ‘sharp-cutting’ or of any of several other European names with similar meaning.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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