Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Anderson was born on 19 January 1803, in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, David Anderson, was 23 and her mother, Grizel Burt, was 22. She married Henry Anderson on 4 June 1826, in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died in 1831, in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 28.
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- Betty Anderson, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Elisabeth Anderson in entry for Henry Anderson, "Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910"
- Elizabeth Anderson in entry for Mary Ann Anderson, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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1811 · The Tron Riot
The Tron riot was a riot which occurred in Edinburgh, Scotland on New Year's Eve. A group of young men attacked and robbed wealthier passers-by. One police officer was killed in the riot. Though the total count of participants is unknown, sixty-eight youths were arrested, with five sentenced to death for their actions during the riot.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1820 · """The """"Radical War""""."""
The Scottish Insurrection was a week of strikes and unrest with demands for reform in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The economic downturn after the Napoleonic war ended, brought increasing unrest with the Artisan workers in Scotland, seeking action to reform the government. But the insurrection was largely forgotten about, as attention was focused on the better publicized Radical events in England.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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