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Daughter of Robert McArthur and Sarah Alward.

Armenia McArthur, born in New Brunswick, was living with her widowed mother Sarah in 1881 in Summerside. Her father had been born on the Island.
Jane A. McArthur from Summerside married Cornelius Ramsay in 1883.

Name Cornelius Ramsay - from Mt Pleasant, Lot 13
Event Type Marriage
Event Date 21 May 1883
Event Place , Prince Edward Island, Canada
Spouse's Name Jane A McArthur - from Summerside
Citing this Record "Prince Edward Island Marriage Registers, 1832-1888," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBJ-KZBC : 9 March 2018), Cornelius Ramsay and Jane A McArthur, 21 May 1883; citing , Prince Edward Island, Canada, Public Archives, Charlottetown; FHL microfilm 1,630,095

In the PEI Baptismal Index, Robert Otis, John Arthur, and twins Ernest and Reuben (b. 3 January 1889) were sons of Cornelius, on the Western Road. Two of their sons, Robert Otis and John Arthur, were living with the widow Sarah T. McArthur in 1891 in Summerside. Jane was "Annie Ramsay" on a baptismal record, and Jennie McArthur on one son's marriage record. She was Armina in the newspaper report of her son's death in 1893.

Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 86 Number 2564
Date July 6 1893
Newspaper Chignecto Post
d. Coverdale (Albert Co.) June 26th, John Arthur RAMSAY, age 8, s/o Cornelius RAMSAY and Armina RAMSAY.

Cornelius was living in Cambridge, Mass. with his mother and sister when he died of smallpox in 1897- the death record said he was divorced.

Armina Jane could be the Jenny, daughter of Sarah Alward, who married S. F. Carter in New Brunswick in 1894. Carter seemed to have a different wife by the time of the 1901 census.
Name CARTER, S. F. - Shepherd Frost Carter, a widower
Married MCARTHUR, JENNIE
Date 1894-07-27
County WESTMORLAND
Number 1297
Code B4/1894
Microfilm F15520

At the time of this marriage, Jennie, age 30, had been living in Woburn, Mass. and said she was born on the Island, mother Sarah Alward. S. "Faust" was in Albert County, NB in 1901 with wife Eliza. He had a son, James S. born 1898 who could be Jennie's or Eliza's son.