yes well the serendipitous gathering of talented folk here are clearing the hearsay and family mythology..
Two folks have sent items that give birth records from Down..the clarification of the Robert Arthur of 1879 is the Arthur in my list..found a death record of his daughter a Captain Mary (Scott) Bishop which lists her father as Colonel R.A. Scott..
It appears i will have to change the Horseman of Armagh to something else..perhaps the "Irish Cowboys" as they appear to have been known in the Drumheller area of Alberta .. and perhaps move my discussion to the Belfast forum that Christopher pointed to