When Andrew Russell Archibald was born on 22 May 1856, in Crofthead, Linlithgowshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Archibald, was 42 and his mother, Elizabeth Russell, was 39. He married Martha Ellen Leavitt on 27 December 1877, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 10 daughters. He lived in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada in 1911 and Alberta, Canada in 1916. He died on 1 September 1924, in Cardston County, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 68, and was buried in Cardston Cemetery, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada.
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The Police Act 1857 was an Act put into place by Parliament to establish a mandatory police force in every county of Scotland.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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