Hi Marlin
good to hear still hard at it first gailer you ll find is actually jailer,
and your most probably correct they would only have spoke gaelic most
islanders in Scotland still use gaelic as their first language when speaking amongst themselves
even to this day can be quite funny at times imagine yourself asking 2 locals directions 1 replies
to you in english and the other contradicts using gaelic who s directions do you follow,
L on the census most likely indicates lodger that does nt mean they re not grand kids,
i went through the islay births for Flora and found 2 that could be her the fact they gave her
age at time of death in years and months would mean who ever registered her death knew
what month she was born and that suggests late january or february so ill look again as
there is Flora births for those months and approx year i looked at the 15 year old and i thought
could be living with grandparents,
i went through the oro,simcoe census's back to 1841 and my opinion is there was a mass exodus
of MacArthers and Gilchrists left islay for Canada, tracing them tells me they are all connected as they are all on the same pages in they census,
so far i can find no Flora MacEachern on the 1841or 51 Simcoe census which suggests she went to Canada sometime in between 41 and 51 and married inside that time frame in saying that i ve still to check islay 51 census to see if she s still there,
i cant remember if i sent you the link to where i get my info if not i ll send it
