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Catherine McEachern married Archibald McIntyre and those are the correct baptismal records.  Catherine and Archibald were in Scotland during the 1841 and 1851 census and then in Oro, Ontario by 1861.  Archibald died in Barrie, Ontario in 1867 and Catherine in 1876.  They too are buried in the Knox Presbyterian Churchyard along with a number of the McEachern family.  I am so excited to hear about the open house.  I travel routinely to Orillia and Barrie and beyond for work, and for Costco lol.  I will be just back from my trip to England and France on the 26th and would love to attend!  I leave June 6.  Last summer I spent over 2 weeks in Scotland, but unfortunately only a few days on Islay.  I have copies of copious amounts of records from the Bowmore museum and archives, some of which I have not yet tried to sort out.  Lol.  I am utterly addicted to genetic genealogy and before my husband’s grandfather passed in January this year at age 93, I got his DNA tested.  So many wonderful new leads!  The MacEacherns are related to every Scottish family in this area , one way or another - I have McIntyres and McArthurs and a number of Currie and McDuffie/mcPhee/McFee links.  If any of you have done DNA tests we should definitely run a comparison.  My tests are in Ancestry, but also Gedmatch, FTDNA and several other databases.

Hello cousins - I am a bit late joining you, but thank you for the invite.  I am new to Roots chat, but now that I found page 9 of this thread I will read backwards.  Flora McEachern, wife of Peter McArthur was my husband’s cousin according to DNA matches.  Flora is almost certainly the daughter of Donald McEachern and Flora Currie.  In 1861 she is living adjacent to her brothers Neil McEachern, Archibald McEachern and also her Aunt (sister of her father, Donald) Catherine McEachern McIntyre.   The McEachern family lands were adjacent to each other with Donald’s children and sister all living together or beside each other.  Brothers of Donald and Catherine, John settled on Con 8, lot 11 and Duncan on Concession 8, lot 12 in 1837.  Donald and Catherine emigrated later, between 1851 and 1861.  The 1852 census for Oro has been destroyed, so that leaves a bit of a gap.

PS - Kawartha Lakes used to be Victoria County and a massive number of Islay and Mull Scots emigrated the Eldon, Mara, Brock and Simcoe, which all adjoin one another to the east side and north of Lake Simcoe in Central Ontario.  I live in Eldon and my husband’s family are mostly still in the area with his uncle living on our original homestead from 1844