When James Harvey Archibald was born on 12 November 1830, in Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Alexander Kent Archibald, was 28 and his mother, Janet Harvey, was 25. He married Lucy Lavinia Hoisington on 25 November 1861, in Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1899. He died on 29 January 1899, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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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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