Brief Life History of Alexander
When Alexander Wotherspoon was born on 12 March 1758, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, James Wotherspoon, was 35 and his mother, Margaret Paton, was 37. He married Agnes Dobie about 1780, in Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died in March 1843, in Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 85, and was buried in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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- Alexander Wotherspoon, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Alexander Witherspoon, "Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910"
- Alexr Witherspoon in entry for Thomas Witherspoon, "Scotland, Lanarkshire Church Records, 1823-1967"
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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.
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Scottish: variant of Witherspoon .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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