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There was a Henry Slade who married a Hannah Colmer in Burstock, Dorset in 1719: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Slade-719

If Jane McVitie was 76 in 1846, that would put her birth about 1770, which would make her 39 when Robert McVitie was born in 1809. That's not impossible, but it would be unusual. I wonder if there isn't another generation in between there.

It took me a while to find them in the 1841/51 census - in the 1851 Archibald is AWOL and the entry is for wife Ann with her sons John, Arch, William & Duncan and if you notice that the next entry is for Hugh Carmichael with family...in the 1841 census the family is right above the same Carmichael family (Hugh occupation Tailor and wife Margaret who I think may have been a McNiven)

I haven't been able to source anything, but a family Tree on MyHeritage says that my great great grandfather, Duncan Carmichael, who was born in Appin around 1816, was the son of Hugh Carmichael and his wife Margaret, whose maiden name was McNiven.

I also found a record from the University of Edinburgh Archives (http://lac-archives-live.is.ed.ac.uk:8081/agents/people/3232), listing an enctry in the notebook of Alexander Carmichael, described thus:

Account of 'Clann 'Ic Illemhicheil' [Carmichaels], collected from Eoghan Mac Illemhicheil [Hugh Carmichael], age 80, Druim-na-moine, Apuinn [Druim-na-moina, Apainn/Appin, Earra-Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] in which he describes the family as being the oldest clan in the area (six hundred years), originating in Annat. He gives a brief account of Alexander's own family, the Barons of Taigh Sgurrain: their descent from the Easbaig Bàn or Fair-haired Bishop, and the loss of their lands to Sir Donald...

So wouldn't I love a ticket to Edinburgh!

Greg

On ancestry, Canadian Passenger Lists.
George Slade transcribed as George Glader on the index age 25 occupation Joiner arrived September 1866 on the St Andrew.

Oh, good catch! I've seen "Slade" mistranscribed seven ways from Sunday, and, granted, that purser's writing was pretty bad and the image is kind of fuzzy, but looking at the image (http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/passenger-lists/passenger-lists-1865-1922/Pages/image.aspx?Image=e003526880&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fcentral.bac-lac.gc.ca%2f.item%2f%3fid%3de003526880%26op%3dimg%26app%3dpassengerlist&Ecopy=e003526880 - on the last line of the page), I can't make that last name come out to "Glader" no matter how I try. FamilySearch was closer, with "Dade", but I do believe it's actually "Slade". (Weird that they both got the first name right. It's much fuzzier.)

Unfortunately, I've encountered George Slade the Joiner before. I can't remember the date or the ship, but I found him on another passenger list, returning to Canada after a visit to England. I got all excited at the name until I saw the notation that he was going to live with his brother in (if I recall correctly) Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

My George was listed as a shop assistant in the 1861 England and Wales Census, and as a farmer in the 1871 Canada Census. And in 1871, they were living in Parry Sound, Ontario (about 2,000 km away from Cape Breton).

So, good sleuthing. But I'm pretty sure that's not my George.

Selina E Slade is listed as Mrs. G Slade age 30 Housekeeper, child age 3 male, child age 2 female.  (son George 1863 and dau. Selina Louisa 1865)?
arrived 24 July 1867 ship called The Nova Scotian, from Liverpool to Quebec.

That's tantalisingly little to go on, but what there is matches what I've found from other sources, so I think that could well be them.

I think this is her again
Selina E Slade age 80 born 1835, nationality English, resident of Canada, arrived Buffalo New York 
August 1915 from Liverpool, then crossed into Canada at Niagara Falls on the 17th August 1915, contact her daughter Mrs B Lackey. (daughter Beatrice)

Yes, George and Selina's daughter Beatrice Maud (http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Slade-673) married a man named William Henry Leckie in Toronto in 1894, and by the 1901 Canada Census, they were living in Vancouver, British Columbia. (And, at the time of the 1911 Census, Selina was living with them. I haven't found out where George was at the time.)

Greg

I should also note that Sidney's brother Walter Slade was Chairman of the Melbourne Stock Exchange in the 1890s.

Greg