Hello All
I'm trying to find out more about my great great grandfather Samuel McCollum, his wife Mary Wright and their children. I don't know Samuel or Mary's dates of birth, marriage or death. Samuel was resident at Drumnacross in 1880 as per his daughter's Marriage Certificate and Mary was resident at Drumnacross in 1890 as she was present at my grandfather's (James Craig) birth.
They had three girls that I know of.
Ellen, born 1851, doesn't appear to have married and was still living at Drumnacross in 1916 as she paid rent to Lord Vane Tempest.
Mary (my great grandmother), born 1855 married James Craig in Glenarm Presbyterian Church in 1880 and died at Highlandtown about 1932. She had six children: Alexander, Mary, Hugh, Ann Jane. James (my grandfather) and Ellen or Nellie.
Sarah, born 1862 emigrated to Western Australia, where she married and her only son later died in a motorbike accident. She died in Cottesloe, Western Australia in 1941.
I know nothing of Samuel McCollum's parents or siblings. Similarly, I know nothing of Mary McCollum nee Wright's background, so any help with either would be welcome.
With regards to Mary and James Craig's children I know the following.
Alex was still living in Highlandtown at the time of the 1911 Census. Mary married James Morrow in 1906, but I don't know much about what became of her five children. Hugh was a sailor and farmer who once again I can't trace past the 1911 Census. Ann Jane married someone called McKillop, that's as much as I know. James married my grandmother, Betty McAlister and had two children, my mother Joan and her brother Alex. Nellie may have married someone called Newell and gone to New Zealand, but I'm not very sure about that.
If you can help me fill in any of the gaps I would be most grateful. All snippets of information are welcome.
Kind regards
Christopher Barnes
