When Helen Gibson F Sutherland was born on 31 December 1878, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, James Sutherland, was 42 and her mother, Mary King, was 37. She married William Buchanan Whitelaw on 9 June 1899, in Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 17 October 1961, in Huntly, Waikato, New Zealand, at the age of 82.
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Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
The post of Secretary for Scotland was established in 1885 after the need arose after establishing different departments for the benefit of the communities.
The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition was organized and led by William Speirs Bruce. Him along with Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery Expedition completed an exploration of Antarctica. They established the first manned meteorological station, the Orcadas, in 1903 and discovered new land east of the Weddell Sea. The expedition was described as the most cost-effective and carefully planned scientific expedition of the Heroic Age. The Orcadas weather station has been in continuous operation ever since.
Scottish (Caithness): habitational name from the Scottish county of Sutherland, named with Old Norse súthr ‘south, southern’ + land ‘land’ because the territory lay south of Scandinavia and the Norse colonies in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
History: This is the name of a Highland Scottish clan associated with the county of Sutherland.
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