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I am trying to find out about my grandmorther Margaret (Peggy) Reid who was from Norhern Ireland. She came from a large family. I believe one of her sister's names was Sarah but she was known as Sis. Peggy lived in York for a while and on the south coast of England where she died. If anyone knows anything about this family, I would be delighted to hear from them.

Nicky, it's unlikely anybody who knows this family will see this.
You need to tell us what you already know. Such as:
When she was born
Who she married, where and when.
Do you have a marriage cert for her?
Jan

Can't see her in Nicky's tree on here, so no clues available

Many thanks for coming back to me about this. I have very little info about her and can only guess when she was born and estimate from 1890 to 1900. I can see if I can get a marriage certificate. She married John Reid Webster Archibald who was Scottish but I have vitually nothing on him either, other than he was a Captain in the army and a surgeon - he read medicine at Edinburgh - and was was awarded the MC. They lived in York for a while but he died young (mustard gas poisoning in WW1) and then she moved to near Hastings. She died in her early 60s in 1955 I believe. After her first husband died, she married again, the surname was Hodson.

So - was her married name Archibald?

If so, a guess:

Name: Margaret A Archibald
Spouse George H E Hodson
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1933
Registration district: Kensington
Inferred County: Middlesex
Volume Number: 1a
Page Number: 22

Name: Margaret A Hodson
Birth Date: abt 1892
Date of Registration: Mar 1956
Age at Death: 64
Registration district: Hastings
Inferred County: Sussex
Volume: 5h
Page: 438

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Ireland, Civil Registration Marriages Index, 1845-1958
Name: John Webster Archibald
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1918
Registration district: Banbridge
Volume: 1
Page Number: 237
FHL Film Number: 101264

Florrie Ewart
Norman Francis Gordon
Margaret Annie Reid
John Webster Archibald

Must be him:


British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920
Name: John Webster Archibald (Captain)
Regiment or Corps: Royal Army Medical Corps
Other Records: Search for 'John Webster Archibald' in other WWI collections

An Ancestry tree has this person as their son I think - this person's full name was Allan Reid Webster Archibald:

Name: Allan R W Archibald
Mother's Maiden Surname: Reid
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1921
Registration district: Lewisham
Inferred County: London
Volume Number: 1d
Page Number: 2086

That's terrific, thank you very much indeed for coming back with so much. I will follow it all up. I am sure you have the right person.

Nicky ..If this is the same person it looks like he was an Aberdeen not Edinburgh Graduate

Archibald, John Webster

Biography: Son of Allan Archibald; born Urquhart, 23 April 1884. M.B., 1907. Commissioned, R.A.M.C. (T.), 21 December 1915; M.O., 295 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, attached to the 63rd Field Ambulance. Served - Home, Irish Rebellion; France, 6 months. Final rank, Captain. Military Cross, 1918.

Publication: Roll of Service, edited by Mabel Desborough Allardyce. Published 1922.

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/roll-of-honour/4279/



Maybe worthwhile you looking at this....

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=silverbowl&id=I620#s1