Our Davidson family was located
mostly in the county of Angus or Fofarshire which
is situated on the east side of Scotland.
It is bounded on the north and north west side by
Aberdeenshire, north east by Kincardine shire,
and by the German Ocean on the south and south
east sides.
Within
this shire is the parish of Aberlemno, once a
very small village about six miles north east of
Forfar in the county of Angus. Once known as
Forfar, it lies on the banks of the South Esk,
which was said to have been about six and a half
miles long and five miles broad, mostly flat and
fertile, but partially hilly and covered with
heath. Erected to commemorate the total defeat of
the Danes, an obelisk of fine antiquity on the
road from Brechin to Forfar and another in the
churchyard can be found here.
Our
Arbuckle families were located in Carmunnock
which is a village and a parish on the
Renfrewshire border of Lanarkshire. The village,
one and a half miles northeast of Busby station
and five miles south by east of Glasgow, is a
pleasant little place, inhabited chiefly by
hand-loom weavers.
These
two families, the Davidsons & Arbuckles, do
not appear to have known each other in
Scotland. They both imigrated to Ontario,
Canada and owned land adjacent to each other in
the small town of Minto in Wellington
County. The Arbuckles left Scotland in about
1853-1855 and the Davidsons some time between
1861 and 1871 and both families appear in the
1871 Ontario census records.
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