Mary Jane (Ramsay) Archibald (1855 - 1919)

Born 22 Jun 1855 in , Prince Edward Island, Canada

Ancestors

Wife of William Prescott Archibald — married 18 Jun 1878 in Rose Hill, , Prince Edward Island, Canada

Descendants

Died 23 May 1919 at age 63 in Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

Daughter of Archibald Ramsay and Eliza Desbrisay.

01-7 William Prescott (4th son of Alexander & Catherine Archibald) was ordained as a minister of the Presbyterian Church in 1878. He md. Minnie Ramsay of Rose Hill, P.E.I. and Lot 8. She was the eldest child of Archibald Ramsay and Eliza DesBrisay Jun 22, 1855-May 1919. They had 4 sons & 2 daus.

• 270-1 Arthur Clarence b Apr. 2, 1879-June 14, 1800
• 271-2 Helen DesBrisay b Sept. 6, 1881-Apr. 16, 1925,

unmarried

• 272-3 Olive Lyle b Aug. 14, 1883-Feb. 26, 1935
• 273-4 Jennie Rutherford b July 23, 1885-Jan. 22, 1909

unmarried

• 274-5 Leith Prescott b Oct. 6, 1888
• 275-6 John Geddie b June 11, 1894

-from Musquodoboit Pioneers Vol 1.

William Prescott Archibald, Cavendish to Minnie Ramsay eldest dau. Archibald Ramsay Lot 8 June 18 1878

Summerside Journal - 28 May 1919, page 5, col. 3 - Word has been received of the death of Mrs. Archibald, widow of the late Rev. W. P. Archibald, D.D. of Springside, N.S. - full obit transcribed on the PEI Ancestry website

Sources

• transcripted by PEI GS, available at PARO
• Musquodoboit Pioneers Vol 1.
• "Canada Census, 1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVNW-VX1 : 2 March 2021), Minnie Archibald in household of William Archibald, Lot 23, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada; from "1881 Canadian Census." Database with images. Ancestry. (www.ancestry.com : 2008); citing William Archibald, citing Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125825803/mary-jane-archibald: accessed 01 September 2022), memorial page for Mary Jane “Minnie” Ramsay Archibald (22 Jun 1855–23 May 1919), Find a Grave Memorial ID 125825803, citing Riverside Cemetery, Upper Stewiacke, Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada; Maintained by Stephen McNeil (contributor 47153241) . Copy of obit on the record
• "Recensement du Canada de 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV9R-7LBT : 17 March 2022), Minnie Archibald in entry for William P Archibald, 1911; citing Census, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm .