When David Lawson was born on 11 July 1727, in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Malcom Lawson, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Stewart, was 19. He married Jean Hardie on 16 March 1752, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Duddingston, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1728 and Edinburgh, Scotland in 1738.
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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.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
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.
Scottish and northern English: patronymic ‘son of Lawrence’; see Law 1. It is also found in Ireland since the 17th century.
Americanized form of Swedish Larsson and Danish, Norwegian or North German Larsen .
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