Hi, and thanks for replying so quickly.
Your original Macarthur query concerned Arthur Macarthur who, as another RootsChat contributor helpfully mentioned last year, married Mary Cameron in Balfron on 14th September 1807. I have found that Mary was a Balfron girl, baptised there on 7th October 1792 as the daughter of Duncan Cameron and Helen Hutton. But I still haven't located Arthur's birth - or his death although this was between 1837 (when he was listed as a Balfron tailor in a trade dirctory) and 1841 when Mary appears in the census as widowed head of the family. I assume he was born somewhere else, as part of a massive increase in Balfron's population when a large cotton mill was built there in the 1790s. I have found four Arthurs born in the 1780s in Callender and Port of Menteith, but have been unable to make a firm link with one of these despite looking at likely sibling patterns. Have you done better, or have any of our other readers?
Best wishes
Haywards
