When Archie Gilmore Blatchford was born in June 1858, in Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Charles Blatchford, was 27 and his mother, Agnes Gilmore, was 28. He married Clara Augusta Saunders on 30 September 1883, in Essex, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 18 December 1924, in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 66.
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English (mainly Devon): habitational name from Blatchford in Sourton, Devon, which is probably named with the Old English personal name Blæcca + Old English ford ‘ford’.
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