I've been trying to learn more about my 4th great grandparents John McGilp and Cathrine McMillan who married 1811 in South Knapdale, Argyllshire. I found baptisms for 6 daughters from 1816 to 1827. Then in 1831 a baptism for a son John, to John McGilp and Mary McMillan (second wife??).
John McGilp and Catherine McMillan's children:
1816 Cathrine
1818 Christian
1820 Betty
1823 Isabella
1825 Marron
1827 Margaret
In the South Knapdale baptism records John is recorded as crofter (1818-1823) or weaver, always at Ballimenach/Ballemonoch. (I found Ballimenach Farmhouse on Kildalloig Estate near Campbeltown - but I'm assuming that's too far from South Knapdale to be their residence?)
I cannot find any of the family (except my ggg grandmother Isabella McGilp/McKillop who married Duncan Campbell) in the censuses. I'm wondering if the family all emigrated, leaving Isabella behind. She married Duncan in January 1851 and is in Tarbert in the 1861 census, then in Campbeltown after that. I'm at a loss about where to go next to find Isabella's parents or what happened to her siblings.
Dena