Jean Duff Alexander
1917–1993 (Age 76)
Partick, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
The Life of Jean Duff
Jean Duff Alexander was born on 2 April 1917 as the daughter of John Alexander and ?. She died on 10 July 1993, in Barleyknowe, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 76.
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Family Time Line
John Alexander
1883–1962
?
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Thomas Miller Alexander
1914–1980
Jean Duff Alexander
1917–1993
Parents & Siblings
1883–1962Male
- ?
–Female
siblings
(2)
1914–1980Male
1917–1993Female
World Events (8)
1918
Age 1
WWI ends in November with armistice. The number of UK war dead runs to several hundred thousand.
1919 · Battle of George Square
Age 2
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.
1938 · The Empire Exhibition, Scotland is held at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow.
Age 21
The Empire Exhibition was an international exposition held from May to December 1938 and offered a chance to showcase and boost the economy of Scotland. It also marked fifty years since Glasgow's first great exhibition held in 1888.
Name Meaning
Scottish, English, German, Dutch; also found in many other cultures: from the personal name Alexander, classical Greek Alexandros, which probably originally meant ‘repulser of men (i.e. of the enemy)’, from alexein ‘to repel’ + andros, genitive of anēr ‘man’. Its popularity in the Middle Ages was due mainly to the Macedonian conqueror, Alexander the Great ( 356–323 bc )—or rather to the hero of the mythical versions of his exploits that gained currency in the so-called Alexander Romances. The name was also borne by various early Christian saints, including a patriarch of Alexandria ( ad c.250–326 ), whose main achievement was condemning the Arian heresy. The Gaelic form of the personal name is Alasdair, which has given rise to a number of Scottish and Irish patronymic surnames, for example Mc Allister . Alexander is a common forename in Scotland, often representing an Anglicized form of the Gaelic name. In North America the form Alexander has absorbed many cases of cognate names from other languages, for example Spanish Alejandro , Italian Alessandro , Greek Alexandropoulos, Russian Aleksandr, etc. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988 .) It has also been adopted as a Jewish name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Jean Duff Alexander - death: 10 July 1993; Barleyknowe, Midlothian, Scotland
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