When Anne Methven was born on 11 July 1779, in Cameron, Fife, Scotland, her father, Colin Methven, was 27 and her mother, Mary Wallace, was 28.
Scottish: habitational name from Methven near Perth. The placename probably means ‘middle stone’, from the British ancestors of the Welsh words medd and maen.
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