Brief Life History of Archibald
When Archibald McCallum was born in 1724, in Kilbrandon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Donald McCallum, was 31 and his mother, Girzell McCallum Munro, was 18. He married Katherine McViccar about 1758, in Inveraray, Argyll, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died before 1843, in Scotland.
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- Archibald Mccallum in entry for John Mccallum, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
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1802 · John Playfair publishes summary of James Hutton's theories of geology.
In 1802, John Playfair published the Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth. His influence was by James Hutton’s knowledge of the earth’s geology.
1811 · The Tron Riot
The Tron riot was a riot which occurred in Edinburgh, Scotland on New Year's Eve. A group of young men attacked and robbed wealthier passers-by. One police officer was killed in the riot. Though the total count of participants is unknown, sixty-eight youths were arrested, with five sentenced to death for their actions during the riot.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Caluim ‘son of Calum or Colum’, a personal name derived from Latin columba ‘dove’. The surname often represents a short form of Mac Gille Caluim or Mac Giolla Coluim ‘son of the servant (i.e. devotee) of Saint Columba’ (Colum Cille). The personal name (Scottish Calum, Irish Colum, originally combined with giolla ‘servant’) has long been popular in Scotland and Ireland, due largely to the cult of Saint Columba, 521–597, who converted the Picts to Christianity and founded an influential monastery on the island of Iona. His name in Irish is Colum Cille ‘Dove of the Church’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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