When Archibald McKellar was born on 18 November 1785, in Argyll, Scotland, his father, John McKellar, was 11782 and his mother, Margary, was 11782. He married Catherine Henderson on 31 October 1809, in United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He died about 1846, in Kemper, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 62.
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Scottish:
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Ealair, ‘son of Ealair’, the Gaelic form of the Latin personal name Hilarius (see Hillary 1).
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Céileachair ‘son of the companionable one’. Compare Irish Kelleher .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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