Brief Life History of James
When James Innes was born in December 1708, in Cupar, Fife, Scotland, his father, James Innes, was 32 and his mother, Ann Balfour, was 33.
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- James Innes, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
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1802 · John Playfair publishes summary of James Hutton's theories of geology.
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.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
Scottish: shortened form of McInnis , from Gaelic Mag Aonghuis ‘son of Aonghus’.
Scottish: habitational name from the barony of Innes in Urquhart (Morayshire), named from Gaelic inis ‘island’.
English: variant of Ince .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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