When William S. Archibald was born in August 1844, in Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, David Archibald, was 32 and his mother, Nancy Fraser, was 32. He married Lillias Ann Blaiki on 6 February 1875, in Greenhill, Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Greenhill, Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1881. He died in 1886, at the age of 42, and was buried in Alma, Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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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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