Brief Life History of Helena Annie
When Helena Annie Forrest was born about 1819, in Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland, her father, David Forest, was 43 and her mother, Margaret Anderson, was 39. She married Alexander McDougall on 18 September 1835, in Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 16 October 1886, in Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 68.
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- Helen Mcdougal in household of Alexander Mcdougal, "Scotland Census, 1851"
- Helen Forrest McDougall in entry for Robert Forrest McDougall, "Scotland, Civil Registration, 1855-1875, 1881, 1891"
- Helen Mcdougall in household of Alexander Mcdougall, "Scotland Census, 1871"
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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.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
1838 · Jenners Department Store Opens its doors
Jenners was founded by Charles Jenner as a department store for the community. The original building was destroyed by a fire in 1892 but, with a new design in mind, the store was reopened in 1895 with new features. It was named Harrods of the North after it was given Royal Warrant in 1911 and was visited by Queen Elizabeth II on its 150th anniversary. It was sold to the House of Fraser in 2005, which in 2008, made much needed improvements to the store.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a royal forest, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper or worker in one. Middle English forest was not, as today, a near-synonym of wood, but referred specifically to a large area of woodland reserved by law for the purposes of hunting by the king and his nobles. The same applied to the European cognates, both ancient Germanic and Romance. The English word is from Middle English forest ‘forest’, Old French forest, Late Latin forestis (silva). This is generally taken to be a derivative of foris ‘outside’; the reference was probably to woods lying outside a settlement. On the other hand, Middle High German for(e)st has been held to be a derivative of Old High German foraha ‘fir’ (see Forster ), with the addition of a collective suffix.
Irish: this name is also frequently attested in Ireland, where it may be a variant of Forrestal .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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