Brief Life History of Jessie Lowther
When Jessie Lowther Douglas was born on 2 September 1913, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, John Douglas, was 27 and her mother, Jessie Lowther, was 27. She married David Park on 28 September 1934, in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 6 December 1979, in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 66.
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1914
Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.
1919 · Battle of George Square
A few months after the ending of World War I, a violent confrontation arose between the Glasgow City Police and workers on strike. There were no fatalities in the skirmish, and it caused the work week to be reduced to 40 hours. But, In the aftermath the leaders of the strike were arrested and British troops were moved to Glasgow and its surrounding areas.
1934 · Scottish National Party founded.
The party was founded on 7 April as the result of a merger between the National Party of Scotland and the Scottish Party with the help of John MacCormick. Its main objective was to campaign the independence of Scotland from the United Kingdom. The Scottish National Party is the largest political party in Scotland in terms of both seats in the Westminster and Holyrood parliaments, with membership reaching 125,482 members. The party does not have any members of the House of Lords.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from any of various places called from their situation on a river named with Gaelic dubh ‘dark, black’ + glas ‘stream’ (a derivative of glas ‘blue’). There are several localities in Scotland and Ireland so named, but the one from which the surname is derived in most if not all cases is Douglas in Lanarkshire 20 miles south of Glasgow, the original stronghold of the influential Douglas family and their retainers.
History: The family taking their name from Douglas in Lanarkshire were of Flemish origin. They rose to great prominence in the 14th and 15th centuries, controlling the earldoms of Douglas, Morton, and Angus, and later, Queensberry.
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