Author talk:Margaret MacArthur

Attempts to identify this author

Not a lot of hints for Author:Margaret MacArthur. Parked -- billinghurst (talk) 06:45, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Historian, protegée of Author:Edward Augustus Freeman, mentions in current academic literature. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:57, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Connection with Freeman family

Margaret MacArthur was a family friend of the Freemans, a "contemporary" of Margaret Freeman, daughter of Author:Edward Augustus Freeman. Mentioned in Leslie Howsam, Academic Discipline or Literary Genre?: The Establishment of Boundaries in Historical Writing, Victorian Literature and Culture Vol. 32, No. 2 (2004), pp. 525-545, at pp. 536-7. Published by: Cambridge University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25058684.

Charles Matthews (talk) 10:08, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Freeman corresponded with Edith Thompson, another "contemporary", about an Ellen Macarthur, in 1887.[1] This could be Ellen A. McArthur later associated with the London School of Economics, author of Outlines of English industrial history (1898). Charles Matthews (talk) 10:17, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

She was Ellen Annette McArthur, who is in ACAD.[2]. The father was Rector of Burlingham, C. C. McArthur who had previously been a missionary in Ceylon. Charles Matthews (talk) 10:22, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

That's Charles Chapman McArthur, and according to the ODNB, there were at least four daughters. I know of: Frances Elizabeth; Henrietta Catherine Douglas; and Ellen Annette. A tempting hypothesis is that Margaret M(a)cArthur could be another. @Billinghurst:: can you throw light on this, by census data? Charles Matthews (talk) 10:55, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Nope, unless we have a non-recorded name

• 1871 England

Household Members Age Relationship
Annette McArthur 47 Wife
Charles Chapman McArthur 39 Head
Frances E E McArthur 12 Daughter
Ellen A McArthur 8 Daughter
Ada L McArthur 7 Daughter
Henrietta C D McArthur 6 Daughter

IN PLAIN SIGHT!

@Charles Matthews: Sometimes you just have to think slightly differently and you find people hiding in plain sight

• Census 1871 England

Name: Edward A Freeman
Age: 47
Estimated Birth Year: 1824
Relation: Head
Gender: Male
Where born: Harborne Staffordshire England
Civil parish: Out and Wells St Cuthbert
Ecclesiastical parish: Coxley
Town: Burcott
County/Island: Somerset
Country: England
Registration district: Wells
Sub-registration district: Wells
ED, institution, or vessel: 9
Household schedule number: 12
Piece: 2446
Folio: 15
Page number: 3
Household Members Age Relationship
Eleanor Freeman 52 Wife
Edward A Freeman 47 Head
Jane Snow 39 Servant
Margarett A R Macarthur 29 Governess
Emily Blinman 28 Servant
Margarett Travell 21 Servant
Anne Attwood 21 Servant
Charles Francis 19 Servant
Helen Freeman 18 Daughter
Katherine Freeman 17 Daughter
Florence Freeman 16 Daughter

…

Name: Margarett A R Macarthur
Age: 29
Relation: Governess, certificated Univ Cau.
Gender: Female
Where born: Scotland

Census

• 1891 Census

Name: Margaret Macarthur
Gender: Female
Relationship: Visitor
Birth Year: 1846
Birth Place: Scotland
Civil Parish: St Giles
Ecclesiastical parish: St Giles
Residence Place: Oxford, St Giles, Oxfordshire, England
Registration District: Headington
Sub registration district: St Clement
ED, Institution or Vessel: 26
Neighbors:
Piece: 1166
Folio: 51
Household Members:
Name Age
Edward A Freeman 67
Eleanor Freeman 72
Florence Freeman 36
Margaret Macarthur 45
Anne Carpenter 31
Fanny Gibbs 23
Mabel Holloway 24
Lily F Ellicott 24
Louise Hunt 10
Joseph Harris 15

• 1881 England

Nothing visible, similarly for Freeman family. Possibly in the USA at this time if with Freeman family (EAF bio)

• 1901 England

Nothing evident, not living with EAF's widow.

• 1861 and 1851 Scotland

Multiple choices no way to narrow down with existing criteria

Noting that Florence Freeman is missing from the same census as Margaret (1881, 1901, 1911), and she died in France 1925, so possibility of being companions as Margaret shown as visitor in 1891.

death

• FreeBMD

Nothing evident showing post 1891 for Margaret McArthur/MacArthur for birth b/w 1840-1850

• Probates in England/Wales

Nothing evident post 1891 that shows spinster to any known people, noting Freeman family there.

Stopping.

• Born Scotland 1842 through 1845, earlier likelier.
• University trained, location unknown
• First record hit 1871 census.
• Last record hit 1891 census.

Too many variables and too many options for a Governess, who was protogée of a renowned academic who travelled extensively. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:44, 16 January 2021 (UTC)