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Janet Horne (died 1727) was the last person to be executed legally for witchcraft in the British Isles. [1] Horne and her daughter were arrested in Dornoch in Sutherland and imprisoned on the accusations of her neighbours. Horne was showing signs of senility, and her daughter had a deformity of her hands and feet.
Her name was reported as Janet Horne; she was tried and condemned to death in 1727. There is a stone, the Witch's Stone, commemorating her death, inscribed with the year 1722. [9] The golf course designer Donald Ross began his career as a greenkeeper on the Royal Dornoch links. The golf course is next to the award-winning blue flag beach.
Horne is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alexander Robert Horne (1881–1953) Scottish engineer; Alex Horne (born 1978), British comedian and creator of Taskmaster; Alistair Horne (1925–2017), British historian; Amelia Horne (1839-1921), (also known as Amy Haines and Amelia Bennett) British memoire writer
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Alice Cooper (real name Vincent Damon Furnier) (1948–), American heavy metal singer and born-again Christian. [136] [137] [138] Gary Cooper (1901–1961), American actor, descended from the Brazier family. [139] [140] Daniel Craig (1968–), English actor, descended from Pastor Daniel Chamier of Le Mont, near Mocas, west of Grenoble.
The subject (or proband) of the ahnentafel is listed as No. 1, the subject's father as No. 2 and the mother as No. 3, the paternal grandparents as No. 4 and No. 5 and the maternal grandparents as No. 6 and No. 7, and so on, back through the generations. Apart from No. 1, who can be male or female, all even-numbered persons are male, and all odd ...
It remains uncertain if the name of Burnett is of Saxon or Norman origins. It has been suggested that the name Burnett is derived from the Old French burnete, brunette, which is a diminutive of brun meaning "brown", "dark brown". Another proposed origin of the name is from burnete, a high quality wool cloth originally dyed to a dark brown ...
Janet Jackson did not have a secret baby in the ’80s that she kept from husband James DeBarge and the world.. Yes, that rumor still lingers — propelled by DeBarge and his family, at times ...