Ann Slessor - more Old Deer Slessors...

[swanandprasad]

Thanks both of you

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...."

I would also like to know more about Ann. She is my direct ancestor.


I see you have Cromie and Bell and co. Down in your bio.
Me too, via Harbisons of Co. Down.

[ruthhelen]

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

[swanandprasad]

How exciting.
Robert McArthur, the brother of William Mitchell McArthur is my great grandfather.
I think that makes us 3rd cousins

The Co. Down connection is also on my mother's side although they moved back to Glasgow (assuming planted people came form the lowland) in the late 1880s.

We should share McArthur trees. I am sure we have new info to share even if it is more recent history?
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I have a fair amount on your W.M McArthur
but almost nothing on his 4(+?) children, just rough birth date info from census.
Sane for his wife Jeannie Ann Milne.

I had a DNA test (as my y chromosome is 'McArthur') if that helps. Nothing exciting and as expected.

[MiocenecMatt]

May as well weigh in here with another Slessor and hope.

I have a direct ancestor, Mary Slessor, born c. 1806 Aberdeenshire and who died prior to 1851 in Aberdeen. She was married to William Robb, a merchant service seaman and labourer - marriage date unknown but likely c. 1836.

Both of them are brick walls but I believe Mary may have come from the Old Deer area. The Robb family was closely linked with a family of Grants (William Robb junior married Margaret Ann Grant - William was often a marriage witness on the Grant side, including for this next one). The youngest of the Grant siblings, William (1851-1919) first married an Elizabeth Kerr (1846-1889) who was born in New Deer to George Kerr and Ann Slessor. Her mother Ann Davidson was from Old Deer. Her father Alexander I'm not sure.

Just chance, or is there a family link? I tried to branch out Ann Slessor's family to see if there was a missing Mary but they're all quite hard to pin down. Ann Slessor's father was a ship carpenter, so there's a marine connection.