When Margaret Archibald was born on 19 May 1767, in Liberton, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, David Archibald Jr., was 43 and her mother, Agnes Ingram, was 41. She married William McCaul on 14 April 1788, in Lasswade, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters.
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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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