When Mary Lindsay was born in 1748, in Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland, her father, Thomas Lindsay, was 30 and her mother, Agnes Simson, was 26. She married John Campbell about 1775, in Glenorchy, Argyll, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter.
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Scottish: habitational name from Lindsey in Lincolnshire, England. This is first found in the form Lindissi, apparently a derivative of the British name of Lincoln . To this was later added the Old English element ēg ‘island’, since the place was virtually cut off by the surrounding fenland. The surname was taken to Scotland at an early date and is the name of an important and powerful Scottish family.
Irish: adopted as an equivalent ofvarious Gaelic names (see Lindsey ).
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