Brief Life History of John
When John Begg was born on 15 November 1799, in Muirkirk, Ayrshire, Scotland, his father, Hugh Begg, was 24 and his mother, Margaret Lennox, was 28. He married Jean Ronald on 23 June 1820, in Muirkirk, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Kyle, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 28 December 1875, in Muirkirk, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 76, and was buried in Muirkirk, East Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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- John Begg, "Scotland Census, 1851"
- John Begg, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
- John Begg, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1820 · "The ""Radical War""."
The Scottish Insurrection was a week of strikes and unrest with demands for reform in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The economic downturn after the Napoleonic war ended, brought increasing unrest with the Artisan workers in Scotland, seeking action to reform the government. But the insurrection was largely forgotten about, as attention was focused on the better publicized Radical events in England.
Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: nickname for a small man, from Gaelic beag ‘small’.
English: from Old French besgue ‘stammerer’, denoting someone with a stammer or speech impediment.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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