Ann Sutherland

Brief Life History of Ann

When Ann Sutherland was christened on 1 June 1777, in Dunnet, Caithness, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Robert Sutherland, was 33 and her mother, Nancy McGee, was 23.

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Family Time Line

Robert Sutherland
1745–
Nancy McGee
1755–
Ann Sutherland
1775–
Sutherland Suthd
1775–
Ann Sutherland
1777–
Robert Sutherland
1780–

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    World Events (3)

    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.

    1823

    Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.

    Name Meaning

    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.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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