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I appreciate this information very much and thank you for taking the time to inform me.

Thank you, "Aghadowey", for this reminder.  Enthusiasm clouded my good judgment and I appreciate your reminder.  You are doing a good job!
Colleen

Hi, Alison:
It is exciting to hear from you.  Your mother-in-law must be either Margaret or Betty (nee Wilson).  They were my mother's first cousins and I have photographs of them with their children when the children were very young.  My mother made some trips back to Ireland and came back with photographs.

I am writing off the top of my head, no notes, so can't remember which girl married William Moore.  However, the interesting thing is that it turns out that Bill Moore was a half-brother of Robert Joseph Moore, a child born to Joseph Moore and his first wife, Maggie Ross.  Maggie died when RJ Moore was a child and he was raised by his mother's people, his maternal grandmother, Nancy (Gregg) Ross. Here is the connection to me.  My father's maternal grandmother was Margaret Ross, sister of Robert Ross who was the father of Maggie Ross and grandfather of her little boy, RJ Moore.  William Moore is a son by Joseph Moore's second wife.  So I have connections to the Moores on my mother's and father's sides.  It's like a jigsaw puzzle, this genealogy pursuit, and lots of fun.

Re ARTHUR, I am in the process of writing a family history and am not finished my paternal side yet.  Hopefully, I will know more about the ARTHURs when I get to my mother's side.  It makes sense to research both sides as they were raised in the same area.  I am finding that their families intermarried several times.

John and Matilda Arthur had only one son who survived infancy, Robert John Arthur, a redhead.  He came out to Canada.  His wife, Betty ?) was from around Ballaghbeddy, also.  They had no children so there was no male ARTHUR to carry on the name from John and Matilda's family.

I will attach a photo of the gravestone of Matilda Campbell Arthur.  It was erected by her daughter, Tillie Taylor of Alberta, Canada.  Annie and Robert Wilson and two of their daughters are also insciribed on this tombstone.

Colleen

To "Aghadowey" and "maryderry":
Thank you very much for the additional information.  Yes, I noticed the ARTHURs were separated in later years, too, and was very surprised.  I have Matilda (Campbell) ARTHUR's death - 1925 - and have seen the burial stone for her at Drumreagh Pres. Church.  However, I have been unable to find death information for John ARTHUR of Clarehill, Aghadowey, so far.

CORRECTIONS to some dates given yesterday:
John Arthur's married was 1869 Feb 23 at Drumreagh Pres. Church

Robert Nixon Arthur - not possible for him to be their child if born on given date - (b. June 1874 Co. Derry) since their daughter, Mary Jane was born in Jun 1874 in Scotland.  (This is the only child that I don't feel was theirs of the list given yesterday.)

Elizabeth Arthur - born 1881 April 27

Matilda Arthur - born 1884 April 26

Annie Arthur - born 1895 - Drumreagh records give month as "in November" but Annie and Robert Wilson's daughter, Nan, gave the date as October 28th.  So, I think maybe the minister was trying to remember but didn't have the exact date.

Sadly, on their youngest son, Robert John Arthur, survived - but he and his wife moved to Alberta, Canada, and had no children, so there is no ARTHUR son from that large family of my great-grandparents.  The name, ARTHUR, was given to my second sister as her second name - something I found very odd as a child, that my sister would have "a boy's name!"

Mary Jane McDowell (called "Jeanie") married Henry McDowell and they are buried at Aghadowey Pres. Church.  However, there is no mention of John Arthur.  I assume he is buried there, too, but no stone is evident.  He is NOT on the one at Drumreagh, with his wife, and I have always found that a mystery - until finding, from the census, that they were separated.  Didn't hear any mention of this in the family. 

I appreciate your prompt feedback.  Have sent corrections in case other family members are searching.