When James Colley was born on 11 July 1831, in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, James Collie, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Bain, was 25.
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The Scottish Reform Act was introduced by Parliament that introduced changes to the election laws in Scotland. The Act didn’t change the method of how the counties elected members but adopted a different solution for each pair of counties. Ultimately, it brought about boundary changes so that some burghs would have more say for the country than others.
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
The Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868 was passed by Parliament and allowed for the creation of seven additional Scottish seats in the House of Commons. Along with the seats, Two University constituencies were created. These each returned one member to Parliament.
English (West Midlands and Yorkshire): variant of Coley .
Irish (Dublin) and Scottish: possibly a shortened and altered form of McCullough or McCulloch .
Americanized form of Swiss German Kohli .
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