Edith M Archibald (1879)

Born 4 Jun 1879 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ancestors

Biography

• Edith was born June 4, 1879^{[1] [2] [3]}
• In 1901 she earned a BA from Dalhousie University^[1]
• In November 1906 she married Edwin Byron Ross (September 29, 1878 Peel, NB to February 28 1976 Vancouver), son of Roderick and Charlotte (Moore) Ross. ^[1]
• They had 2 children, Jean A Ross, who was born in 1907 and married Roger Huston in California on December 15, 1934^[4]and Rod Russell Ross, who was born in 1914 and married Muriel Lorraine Apgar September 9, 1939 in California ^[5]
• The 1911 Canadian census shows the family in Vancouver ^[6]
• The 1940 US census shows them in California, with her mother ^[7]
• Edith appears to have been living in Vancouver in February 1976, when her husband died^[8] but there is no apparent record of her death.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} "The Archibald Family of Nova Scotia: No Reward Without Effort" by Allan E. Marble, Past President and Fellow of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, printed by the Friesens Book Division in Altona Manitoba on February 2008, pages 175, 344
2. ↑ "Canada Census, 1881," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MV6G-3XX : 18 November 2014), Jacob L. Archibald, Ward no. 6, Halifax City, Nova Scotia, Canada; citing p. 100; Library and Archives Canada film number C-13168, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 1,375,804.
3. ↑ "Canada Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KHK5-XGH : 13 November 2014), Jacob L Archibald, B, Halifax (city/cité), Nova Scotia, Canada; citing p. 5, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa.
4. ↑ "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8JN-57N : 28 November 2014), Edith M Archibald in entry for Roger K Huston and Jean A Ross, 15 Dec 1934; citing Los Angeles, California, United States, county courthouses, California; FHL microfilm 2,113,658.
5. ↑ "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8V8-ZKL : 28 November 2014), Edith Archibald in entry for Rod Russell Ross and Muriel Lorraine Apgar, 09 Sep 1939; citing Los Angeles, California, United States, county courthouses, California; FHL microfilm 2,114,340.
6. ↑ "Recensement du Canada de 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV95-MGGR : 2 March 2015), Edith Archibald Ross in entry for Edwine Byron Ross, 1911; citing Census, Vancouver Sub-Districts 1-18, British Columbia, Canada, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 2,417,661.
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9W3-7ZR : accessed 16 August 2016), Edith A Ross in household of Edwin E Ross, Tract 420, Pasadena, Pasadena Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 19-455, sheet 12B, family 301, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 240.
8. ↑ "British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLBY-TYH : 30 September 2015), Edith Archibald in entry for Edwin Byron Ross, 1976.