Brief Life History of Gilbert
When Gilbert Burns was born on 24 December 1803, in Morham, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Gilbert Burns, was 43 and his mother, Jean Breckenridge, was 39. He married Jemima Georgiana Ferrier in 1842, in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Morham, Garvald and Bara, East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1803. He died on 9 October 1881, in Knockmaroon, County Dublin, Ireland, at the age of 77, and was buried in Castleknock, County Dublin, Ireland.
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- Gilbert Burns, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Gilbert NULL NULL Burns, "Find A Grave Index"
- Gilbert Burns in entry for Robert, "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices"
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1811 · The Tron Riot
The Tron riot was a riot which occurred in Edinburgh, Scotland on New Year's Eve. A group of young men attacked and robbed wealthier passers-by. One police officer was killed in the riot. Though the total count of participants is unknown, sixty-eight youths were arrested, with five sentenced to death for their actions during the riot.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
Name Meaning
Scottish (central Scotland and northern England): habitational name from any of various places called formerly Burnis, Burnes, or Burnhouse (named with burn- ‘stream’), especially those in Kincardineshire, Renfrewshire, Dunbartonshire, and possibly Argyll.
English and Scottish: variant either of Burn , with post-medieval excrescent -s, or of Barnes .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Broin (see Byrne ), with excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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