I am searching for John McColl, baptised Aharacle, Argyll 1818.
I have found his siblings in NSW & Victoria, Australia and a newspaper clipping from Australia suggests that all the children of John McColl Sr and Jane [Jean, Jannet] Campbell came to Australia [1849?] after their mother's death. So far the name of their ship is a mystery.
Except for Archibald Campbell McColl, my g.grandfather, who migrated before them in 1842.
I can't pin down a definitive death or life story for John Jr in Australia, though have yet to check Queensland where his youngest sister, Mary Brooke married in 1863.
I am aware that the memory of John Sr is much reviled because of his part in the clearances at the bidding of James Riddell. John Sr died in 1843 at about the time the property Mingary was sold. After the sale the family move to Oban for a time, then to Clarkston.
I did find a probate inventory stating that a John McColl, formerly cotton spinner died on August 14, 1848 at Glasgow, having resided at Clarkston and then Greenhead. There is no clear indication of family connections in that document.
John's mother Jane and possibly his uncle, Duncan, died at Clarkston in 1846, the legal aspects being finalised in 1847.
Having found some false clues they are included below in case they are of help someone, just so the time spent is not wasted:
John McColl died Lexton, Victoria 22 March 1879, age 63...indebted to John McPhee, whose probate statement says that he died at Amherst, possibly referring to the Goldfields Hospital at Amherst.
John's parents are listed as Donald McColl & Bertha Campbell
His wife was Euphemia Cameron [2nfd marriage for her, 1st one to a John McPhee]. Her parents were Hugh & Sarah Cameron. She died at Lexton in 1896, listed as age 90 which may be incorrect as the shipping list has her as 35 in 1852.
They arrived in Victoria on the Cambodia in March 1852, with their children Bethia age 2 and Sarah age 5. This seems to be the perennial story of a struggling debt- ridden farmer.
John McColl buried? December 1, 1848 at Glasgow, age 56 Weaver & Pens[ione]r 26th Regiment, Decline.