« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 09 November 10 06:55 GMT (UK) »
Hi Monica,
Thank you for taking the time to pass on these details.
I can go back to Donald (Daniel) McArthur and his wife Janet Alexander who were living in the area of Cargill, Perthshire. From the information I have, Donald was a forester. Their son John, from whom I descend, was a mason in that area.
I wonder if there is a family connection with the McArthurs you listed and those on my tree. What is interesting is the same names which occur in my family and those listed i.e James, David and Peter.
I shall make further enquires to see if I can make a connection. I will see if I can find strolling tinkers of the name McArthur going back to 1841.
Would you know of any website with information on Perthshire strolling tinkers? Would the death of STs be registered in the same way? Would they be found in the local graveyards?
This may be a very stupid point to make, but I will make it anyway, I take it that Scotland's tinkers have a different heritage/ancestry to that of Romany Gypsies. My understanding is that Scotland's tinkers are from displaced Scottish families who chose to travel from place to place, plying their trade, as opposed to settling in one place to make a living.
There were so many McArthurs in the Perthshire area. Is it possible that they all had a blood connection?
Liz
Perthshire: MacArthur, Whittet, Mill (Milne), Alexander, Shaw, Pearson, Henderson, Rennie, Comrie, Braid, Ritchie, Roy, MacKillop, Keill, Cumming, Taylor, Marshall, Young, Miller, MacVicar, Murray, Cameron, Croll, Christie, Gloag, Gorrie, Stobbie, Lunnan, Thomson, Crerar, Hepburn.
Dundee: Mill (Milne).
Aberdeen: Mill (Milne).
Skye: MacIntosh, Stewart, MacQueen, Matheson, Morrison, Nicholson, MacLeod, Finlayson.
Peebles: Dickson, Sandilands, Rule, Johnstone.
Edinburgh: Thomson, Sandilands.