Archie is the only one that I found some more information on his Scotland birth.
Prior to 1841, there wasn't any information stored by the government, the churches kept birth, death and baptism records. It wasn't law to keep the records so it was just best effort.
So I was lucky to find even one.
The orginal document is hard to read, but they had decipher it for me...here is the info.
No | Birth | Baptism | Surname | Forename | Alias | Parent Names | Sex | Parish | Image |
1 | 18/04/1850 | 14/05/1850 | MACASKILL | ARCHIBALD | - | ALLAN MACASKILL/MARY MACKILLAIG | M | ARDKENNETH, ST MICHAEL'S |
The most interesting thing is that it listed the Parish. St Michaels at Ardkenneth.
I goggled it and found a picture from around the 1850's. Church was built in 1820.
The house and church were parts of the same building set in a relatively
large farm which was tenanted by the priests at Ardkenneth.
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