Archibald Edwin Thurlow was born on 18 December 1872, in Lavant, Lanark, Ontario, Canada. He married Margaret Bowack McDonald on 26 March 1902, in Renfrew, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Ramsay Township, Lanark, Ontario, Canada in 1891 and Port Arthur, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada in 1931. He died on 23 March 1942, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 69, and was buried in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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English (mainly Suffolk and Norfolk): habitational name from Thurlow in Suffolk, named from an uncertain first element (perhaps Old English thride ‘deliberation’, possibly used to name an assembly site, or thrȳth ‘troop, host of warriors’) + Old English hlāw ‘mound, hill’.
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