Brief Life History of Adam
When Adam Duncan was born on 22 June 1839, in Alves, Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, William Duncan, was 23 and his mother, Mary Brown, was 28. He married Isabelle Robb on 21 June 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He immigrated to Deseret, Millard, Utah, United States in 1861 and lived in Tranent, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1841. In 1851, at the age of 12, his occupation is listed as coal miner in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom. He died on 16 April 1913, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Adam Duncan, "Scotland Census, 1861"
- Legacy NFS Source: Adam Duncan - Church record: birth: 22 June 1839; Inveresk, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Adam Duncan, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1908-1949"
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1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1860
Historical Boundaries: 1860: Millard, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Millard, Utah, United States
Name Meaning
Scottish: from the Older Scots personal name Dunecan, itself from the traditional Irish royal name Donnchad(h), derived from donn ‘brown-haired’ + cath ‘battle’. Judging by the Scots form, the Scottish Gaelic intermediary seems to have been understood as containing ceann ‘head’, as if the whole name meant ‘brown head’; compare sense 2. In Ireland the name was Anglicized as Donagh or Donaghue. Compare Donahue .
Irish: used as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duinnchinn ‘descendant of Donncheann’, a byname composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + ceann ‘head’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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History of William Duncan
William Duncan – 1815-1875 Almost two months after Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, June 18. 1815, William Duncan was born in Newton. a small mining village in the Pencaitiand Parish in Hadding …
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