When Elizabeth Bruce was born about 1844, in Elgin, Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, James Bruce, was 44 and her mother, Elizabeth Clarke, was 39. She married Alexander Hogg on 2 December 1864, in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1881 and Saint Giles, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1891. She died on 23 January 1900, in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 57.
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The Disruption of 1843 was a division within the Church of Scotland, which 474 evangelical ministers of the Church broke away from the Church to form the Free Church of Scotland. They didn’t reject the principles of the Church of Scotland but were trying to establish a purer version of the Church without the King or Parliament being its head. It had huge effects not only within the Church of Scotland, but also with Scottish civic life.
The Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868 was passed by Parliament and allowed for the creation of seven additional Scottish seats in the House of Commons. Along with the seats, Two University constituencies were created. These each returned one member to Parliament.
Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from a place in Normandy, probably from Brix (La Manche).
Altered form of French Brousse .
History: The son of the Domesday baron, a friend of David I of Scotland, was granted by him the Lordship of Annandale in 1124, and his second son Robert became the founder of the Scottish house of Bruce. — This surname (see 2 above) is listed along with its original form Brousse in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
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