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Neil is likely the Neil McArthur, carpenter, in Ellerslie in an 1871 directory of PEI.

In the 1881 census, Neil was a ship carpenter in Lot 12 with wife Elizabeth (37) and children Cornelius 21, Eleanor 17, Isaac 16, William 14, Ulysses 12, Isabel 10, Arthur 8, Benjamin 6, Herbert B, 5, and Liza (Lillian) May, age 1.

The family emigrated to the States around 1882, where Neil died in 1891.

Name: Neil Mcarthur
Event Type: Death Event Date: 18 Dec 1891
Event Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Age: 59
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Carpenter
Birthplace: P.E.I. Birth Year (Estimated): 1832
Burial Place: Woodlawn
Father's Name: John
Father's Birthplace: P.E.I.
Mother's Name: Catherine Mclaughlin
Mother's Birthplace: P.E.I.
Citing this Record "Massachusetts, Deaths, 1841-1915," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N7L1-ZV8 : accessed 26 Aug 2013), Neil Mcarthur, 1891.

Neil was survived by his wife, 8 sons and 2 daughters.

Elizabeth said she had had 14 children, 10 living by the time of the US 1900 census. Herbert and Lillian M. were with her in that census. There were marriage or other records for John, Cornelius, Isaac, William, Arthur, and Benjamin, and a death record for Henry in 1884.

Does J. Franklin McArthur, b. 1866, belong with this family? Is this Samuel Franklin?