Brief Life History of Margaret
Margaret Chisholm was born in 1811, in Spittal by Tweedmouth, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom. She had at least 4 sons and 1 daughter with John Ainslie. She died in 1853, in Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 42, and was buried in Tweedmouth, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom.
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- Margaret Ainslie in entry for George Ainslie, "England, Northumberland Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1920"
- Margaret Chisholm, "England, Northumberland, Parish Registers, 1538-1950"
- Margaret Ainslie in entry for Margaret Ainslie, "England, Northumberland, Parish Registers, 1538-1950"
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1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
1833 · The Factory Act Restricts Child Labor
The Factory Act restricted the hours women and children could work in textile mills. No child under the age of 9 were allowed to work, and children ages 9-13 could not work longer than 9 hours per day. Children up to the age of 13 were required to receive at least two hours of schooling, six days per week.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Chisholme near Hawick in southern Scotland, which derives its name from Old English c̄se, cēse ‘cheese’ (from Latin caseus) + holm ‘piece of dry land in a fen’ and refers to a waterside meadow good for dairy farming and hence for producing cheeses. In the 14th century members of this family migrated to the Highlands, settling in Strathglass, where their name was Gaelicized as Siosal.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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