Duncan Taylour b.abt.1766 and Annabella Campbell

[ColC]

Correction the two baptisms may be correct but not the marriage.

Baptisms BOWMORE OR KILARROW

TAYLOR   CATHARINE   DUNCAN TAYLOR/MARY GRAHAME       06/02/1788      
TAYLOR   DUNCAN   DUNCAN TAYLOR/MARY GRAHAM       25/11/1792      
TAYLOR   JOHN   DUNCAN TAYLOR/MARY GRAHAM       26/03/1790      

Colin

[Forfarian]

Given that the baptism of Duncan on the Isle of Islay on 25 November 1792 is after the baptism of Efrick on 31 May 1792 in Kintyre, I think you can safely dismiss this Duncan Taylor and Mary Graham from consideration. 

[Karytay]

Is there no records of occupations in Skipness, one that possible can give more info on Duncan as a shoemaker ?
His son Archibald was born in Calfin, could this be a clue ?

Also his son Robert was a shoemaker in 1841 census. He was staying with the McCallum's.

[Forfarian]

Is there no records of occupations in Skipness, one that possible can give more info on Duncan as a shoemaker ?

I can't think of any offhand, but perhaps Argyll and Bute Archives https://liveargyll.co.uk/facility/archives/ may know of something.

His son Archibald was born in Calfin, could this be a clue ?

It might, if for example you could look through the parish register and see who else lived in Calfin. However there are huge gaps in the records so the absence of a record is not evidence of the absence of events that should have been recorded. See screenshots below of details from https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//research/list-of-oprs/detailed-list-of-old-parochial-registers-of-scotland.pdf.

Calfin is shown as Coilfin on this map https://maps.nls.uk/view/216389977 just west of Skipness. It's also shown as Coalfin on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map https://maps.nls.uk/view/216389977.

There are some photographs of the area here http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/nr8958

[Karytay]

Thanks Forfarian