When Margaret Jane Chisholm was born on 18 March 1877, in Mount Templeton, South Australia, Australia, her father, Alexander Gavin Chisholm, was 33 and her mother, Margaret Howie, was 22. She died on 19 March 1882, in Alberton, South Australia, Australia, at the age of 5, 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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