Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The definition of "clearance" (as it relates to the Highland Clearances) is debatable. The term was not in common use during much of the clearances; landowners, their factors and other estate staff tended, until the 1840s, to use the word "removal" to refer to the eviction of tenants. However, by 1843, "clearance" had become a general (and ...
Pages in category "Highland Clearances" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Daniel M. Pierce, Illinois state legislator who served three nonconsecutive terms as Mayor of Highland Park; lifelong resident. Rob Sherman, atheist activist, perennial candidate, and businessman; grew up in Highland Park; Jill Stein, 2012 and 2016 Green Party presidential candidate; grew up in Highland Park; Grace Mary Stern, Illinois state ...
This article is a list of any town, village, hamlet and settlements in Scotland, that were cleared during the 18th and 19th centuries as part of the Highland Clearances. The Clearances were a complex series of events occurring over more than a hundred years. [1]
Sportspeople from Highland Park, Illinois (19 P) Pages in category "People from Highland Park, Illinois" The following 92 pages are in this category, out of 92 total.
Highland Clearances This page was last edited on 18 January 2025, at 18:42 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
A coffin ship (Irish: long cónra) is a popular idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish migrants escaping the Great Irish Famine and Highlanders displaced by the Highland Clearances. [ 2 ]
Isaac White (1776–1811), resident of Illinois who enlisted in the Indiana militia and was killed at the Battle of Tippecanoe: 13,401: 494 sq mi (1,279 km 2) Whiteside County: 195: Morrison: 1836: Jo Daviess and Henry County: Samuel Whiteside (1783–1868), state legislator and militia leader 54,498: 684 sq mi (1,772 km 2) Will County: 197 ...