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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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’.
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