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was there anything more after your quote?
"The entry reads: June 24th, John McArthur in Guilkhorn had a son brought forth by his wife Ann Slessor, baptised 8 July last named Robert...."
The entry finishes: …
Witnesses George McArthur and John Fowlie.
I would also like to know more about Ann. She is my direct ancestor.
Then we must be related. Ann Slessor and John McArthur are my 4x great grandparents.
My great grandfather was William Mitchell McArthur, the second son of Robert McArthur and Elizabeth Paterson Mitchell, who was the second son of John McArthur and Ann Slessor’s second son Robert McArthur and his wife Susan Baxter.
I see you have Cromie and Bell and co. Down in your bio.
Me too, via Harbisons of Co. Down.
My Cromie/Crombie and Bell ancestors are actually on my mother’s side. My maternal grandmother was a Dalziel; her parents were from Co Down - her father’s mother was Bell, and her mother’s mother was Crombie.
Ruth
McArthur, Milne, Mitchell, Black, Robertson, Morrison, Slessor, Lawrence - Aberdeenshire/Banffshire. Muir, Waddell, Fraser, Orr, Cowden - Lanarkshire/Renfrewshire/Dunbartonshire. Dalziel, Dalzell, Gourley, Cromie, Crombie, Bell - Co Down. Lewis, Corrigan, Morris, Cox, Hay - Monmouthshire/Pembrokeshire. Baker, Ginger, Woodhurst, Swift, Jones - Kent/London.