Brief Life History of Margrat
When Margrat Porteows was christened on 14 April 1706, in Newton Village, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Archibald Porteous, was 26 and her mother, Janet Swan, was 22.
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- Margrat Porteows, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Margrat Porteows, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
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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.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English and Older Scots port(e)hors, portas, porte(i)s, portos, portus, porthous, porteus, portewas ‘portable breviary, prayer book’. It is a borrowing of Old French porte-hors, Anglo-Norman French porteose, porteho(r)s, port(h)eus, literally something ‘carried out of doors’. The surname may have been given to someone who habitually carried such a book, or for a scribe employed to write them. In modern times it is chiefly a Scottish surname, which probably accounts for its presence in northern England, but the name is also well evidenced in southeastern England in the medieval period and in northern Lincolnshire since the 17th century. The Scottish surname became established in Ireland by the mid 16th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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