When James William Chisholm was born on 1 March 1888, in Kew, Victoria, Australia, his father, Alexander Gavin Chisholm, was 44 and his mother, Margaret Howie, was 33. He died on 24 March 1890, in Semaphore, South Australia, Australia, at the age of 2, and was buried in Cheltenham, South Australia, Australia.
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Scottish: habitational name from Chisholme near Hawick in southern Scotland, which derives its name from Old English c̄se, cēse ‘cheese’ (from Latin caseus) + holm ‘piece of dry land in a fen’ and refers to a waterside meadow good for dairy farming and hence for producing cheeses. In the 14th century members of this family migrated to the Highlands, settling in Strathglass, where their name was Gaelicized as Siosal.
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