Peter Main

Brief Life History of Peter

When Peter Main was born on 15 July 1796, in Kenmuir, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Peter Main, was 57 and his mother, Elizabeth Campbell, was 38. He lived in Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1796.

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Family Time Line

Peter Main
1738–
Elizabeth Campbell
1757–
Margaret Main
1781–1855
John Main
1782–1790
John Main
1790–1844
Campbell Jameson Main
1794–
Peter Main
1796–

Sources (1)

  • Peter Main, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"

World Events (8)

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.

1830

Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).

Name Meaning

Scottish: from a shortened form of the Scandinavian personal name Magnus , which in Older Scots became Manus and Mane.

English (of Norman origin) and French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Ma(g)ino, Meino, from magan ‘strength, might’.

English (of Norman origin): nickname for a large man, from Old French magne, maine ‘great, big’.

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

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