Family - Person Sheet
Family - Person Sheet
NameArchibald Waddell 
Birth14 May 1850, Carluke LKS
Death28 Jan 1925, Troy NY USA
Burial30 Jan 1925, Oakwood Cemetery (Section C-1), Troy, NY
OccupationSawmiller
FatherJames Waddell (1821-~1883)
MotherMargaret Gilchrist (1823-1901)
Spouses
Marriage4 Jun 1875, Carluke LKS
ChildrenJames (1876-1876)
Marion Golder (1877-1946)
Robert Marshall (1879-1966)
Margaret Gilchrist (1882-1968)
Jessie Allen (1885-1925)
James Archibald (1887-1969)
Marshall (1889-1891)
John (1891-1966)
Annie Muir Russell (1900-1979)
Notes for Archibald Waddell
Archibald WADDELL was born in Carluke in May 1850 and is characterized asa "sawmiller" in the August 24, 1877 parish entry for the birth of his daughter, Marion Golder WADDELL, in Carluke, Scotland. He and his wife, Elizabeth Marshall WADDELL, and their family left Lanarkshire at somepoint following the birth of their son Robert on July 4, 1879 and were not in Carluke for the 1881 census. The family completed their immigration to New York in 1881 prior to the birth of their daughter Margaret Gilchrist WADDELL on February 12, 1882 in Troy. Archibald and his family were still in Troy for the birth of their daughter Jessie on February 1, 1885 but had moved to Aberdeen, South Dakota prior to the birth of James on April 24, 1887. Archibald was issued a Certificate of Naturalization in Aberdeen (Brown County), South Dakota on September 28,1889 affirming that he had been in the U.S. for more than five years and in South Dakota for more than one year. After a disasterous effort at farming for several years, he returned to Troy, New York by 1891 and wasliving on Mechanic Street where his young son Marshall died. Archibaldworked as an engine tender at the Burden Ironworks [noted for ironproduction and providing iron horseshoes to the Federal government during the Civil War]. He was living adjacent to the Ironworks at 468 First Street in Troy for the 1900 census and may have been living at 461 First Street on May 31, 1901 as evidenced by a letter from Alston & Orr, Solicitors. Archibald and his family had moved and were living at 542 First Street by 1910 and his widowed daughter Marion Golder Waddell DAVIES and her daughters returned from Virginia and joined them there in1918. The annual Troy Directory (for years 1919 to 1926) describes Archibald as an "engineer" and lists boarders in the household as JamesA. Waddell, Margaret G. Waddell, and Annie M. Waddell (1922-1924).Archibald was an Elder of Woodside Presbyterian Church and executed his Last Will in Troy on February 26, 1921. He had lived in Troy for 43years and was maintaining his residence at 542 First Street when he died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1925. Archibald is buried in the Waddell family plot of Oakwood Cemetery (Section C-1), Troy, New York and his tombstone is inscribed "Archibald WADDELL 1850-1925".