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Hi Jeff,I made an error. It was James on the birth certificate and David on the death certificate.Isn't the birth certificate more likely to be correct? Or could there have been two David Arklay's born in the 1820's? There is no list of children that I have seen except on the census. Sharon

David Arklay,born March 24,1828. He was married only once to Margaret Stewart on 10 Dec.1848. They had 6 children. I believe the oldest three and the second youngest emigrated to Australia in the 1870's.Elizabeth Hardie in 1878 and her two siblings David Arklay and Euphemia Abbot,a widow, on the 5 Dec.1877 on the Pericles. Euphemia left behind her 3 year old daughter,Jane Abbot  with her parents for at least 14 years .I don't know what happened to Jane Abbot after that.(b.1874).Her father ,David Abbot had drowned while at sea. I believe the son John also emigrated but I don't have that date on hand. Their youngest son Stewart Arklay remained in Dundee for a while at least . His mother died at his house and 3 years later Stewart was a witness to David Arklays death in a nursing home.  The other child ,Jane Arklay married David High,a marble and stone cutter and sculptor. She died young at 35 after giving birth to twins in Mar.1892 and her husband died on Feb.26,1899. By the census in 1901,her youngest 4 children were living in an orphanage.Their oldest sister was my great grandmother,Margaret Stewart High. Her daughter ,my grandmother,another Margaret Stewart High b.Feb.3,1898 was living with the Arklays at the age of three on the 1901 census.I have copies of their death certificates.(1901 and 1904) .I have some marriage and birth certificates for John Stewart  Arklay in Australia and also for his sister Euphemia Abbot.. It looks like she remarried twice and had more children. Let me know what part of this family you are connected to. By the way ,David Arklay's death cert. says his parents are David Arklay and Mary Hunter but his birth cert.says they are James Arklay and Mary Hunter.     Sharon