My Family Tree

George was baptized on 27 October 1825, and said his date of birth was 22 October 1825 on the 1901 census. He would have been named after his mother's older brother, George Murray.

George McArthur and his wife Ruth of New Brunswick signed a land document related to his father's property in Lot 14 in 1859.

George (b. PEI) and Ruth were in Charlotte County, New Brunswick for the 1861 census with Sarah, Margaret, Thomas and Eliza. I couldn't find the family in the 1871 New Brunswick census. George was back on the Island for the 1881 census with his wife Ruth, in Lot 7. The older children had been born in New Brunswick; the youngest daughter had been born on the Island around 1871. (Sarah,Thomas, Eliza, Hannah, Eleanor, Hugh, George, Mary Jane)

In 1891, Thomas, Hugh, George, Mary J., Bessie (grand-daughter), Samson (grandson) and Priscilla were living with George and Ruth in Lot 7. Their daughter Margaret was in a household near them with her son Edward. In this census, George said his father had been born on the Island, and his mother in New Brunswick, but this section of the census has a lot of ditto marks that may have led to mistakes.

George and Ruth's children were named after her parents (Sarah and Thomas), then Margaret, and after three daughters, Hugh, after George's parents.

They could be the family described in the 1892 issue of the Examiner. An electric storm swept through the area, from Cape Wolfe, and along the O'Leary and Locke Roads. "It struck the house of George McArthur Sr. on Locke Road, blowing it down, a piece of which struck him in the back of the neck hurting him badly. His son, after the house had fallen, went to assist his father who got jammed among the debris and got struck either by lightning or a piece of timber. He died 16 hours after. Old Mrs McArthur was badly injured, but it is likely she will recover. Hugh McArthur of the same family was carried by the wind eight chains and landed in a brook. George McArthur Jr who lives with wife and child went to the cellar when the storm began, where they no sooner got than the house blew away leaving nothing but the floor and sills."