When Mary Jane Waddell Archibald was born on 31 May 1908, in Haywood, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, John Archibald, was 30 and her mother, Mary Jane Waddell, was 27. She married Sinclair McLeod in 1929, in Prestonpans, Haddingtonshire, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 1 May 1979, in Prestonpans, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, at the age of 70, and was buried in Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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The Leith dockers strike was a strike that brought the town of Leith to a standstill after dock workers demanded an increase in pay, better working conditions, and shorter hours. The strike had an effect on the local community by not allowing trade to flow smoothly out of the docks. There totaled around 4,600 people a part of the strikes and riots but it ended near the middle of August with no demands met. since then two more strikes would happen at the same location, once in 1983 and, most recently, in 1989.
Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.
The Kilmarnock War Memorial was built to pay tribute to all residents of Kilmarnock who fought in World War I. Most of the building is accessible to the public and names of the people who died line the walkways inside and out. After World War II, additions were made adding the names of those who gave their lives in World War II.
Scottish and English: from a personal name, Archibald, of Anglo-Norman French and (ultimately) ancient Germanic origin (see Archambault ). In the Highlands of Scotland it was taken as an Anglicized equivalent of the Gaelic personal name Gille Easbaig ‘servant of the bishop’ (see Gillespie ), probably because of the approximate phonetic similarity between Arch(i)bald and easbaig. Both Archibald and Gillespie are personal names much favored among Clan Campbell.
History: This is the name of a leading Nova Scotia family, taken there by four brothers who emigrated from Londonderry, northern Ireland, in 1750–62.
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