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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

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.

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

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

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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

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

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.

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

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

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.