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Thank you for your replies, AGlasgow000 and Forfarian.

By coincidence, I have been discussing this very recently with someone who descends directly from Dr Robert Glasgow (1693-1766), the Kilbirnie surgeon and Chamberlain to Viscount Garnock. As you rightly say, Robert Glasgow and his wife, Margaret Allan, had many children - I can only find evidence of 13 of the 14 mentioned by Paterson - including Dr Robert Glasgow Jnr (1747-1827), who went off to the Virgin Islands as a surgeon before returning to Ayrshire and acquiring Mountgreenan. Another of the sons was James (1750-c1803). Both Robert Jnr and James are known to have fathered illegitimate children; according to his will, Robert Jnr left money to his brother James's two reputed natural sons, Robert and James, although I believe that this part of the will was later successfully challenged by someone. However, my friend and I now believe that the James Glasgow who was the illegitimate son of James Glasgow was, in fact, my 3rd g-grandfather. To try and establish some evidence for this, we are currently working through our potential mutual DNA connections.

Speaking of DNA connections, I have now established connections with a number of people who also descend from my 3rd g-grandmother, Ann Houston, following her marriage in 1802 to James Orr. What's interesting about this is that their eldest son, Robert Houston Orr, emigrated to the US and played a significant role as a captain in the Mormon migration of handcart pioneers from Utah to California.

Finally, thank you to Forfarian for your comments about Kirk Session records. Though I am very familiar with KS records (my dad was a Presbyterian minister), I am struggling at present to find the ones for Kilbirnie that I need. I will probably have to visit SP in Edinburgh once lockdown is over, as I see many seem to be located there.

Regards
Ian

One public tree I've found has him on the London Electoral Register in 1888 in a tenement at 25 Golden Square, St James. The 1891 Scotland Census has him living with his wife, Mary J, and others at Bambarrock House, Kirkinner in Wigtownshire.

Regards
Ian

There are two possibles in ScotlandPeople for Peter Tulloch born on Shetland between 1800 and 1803 (discounting a third one who remained there all his life and died in 1896).

Peter Tulloch b.1800 at Lerwick to Alexr Tulloch/Ann Loggie

Peter Tulloch b.1801 at Bressay, Burra & Quarff to John Tulloch

If your Peter followed the Scottish naming convention, however, my bet would be on the son of John Tulloch given that his brothers are also called John, Thomas and William, just like his sons.

Ian

EDIT: I should have added that Bressay etc is only 4 miles from Lerwick by ferry.

Your question made me curious, Cupcake, because my interest in Whitesands lies particularly in another long gone hostelry there, called the Farmers Inn, which was run by my ggg-grandmother and where my gg-grandmother was born. The 1852 OS map I have shows both the Hoddam Castle Inn at the junction of White Sands and Brewery Street (now occupied by a Land Rover spares dealer), and the Farmers Inn (now occupied by a coffee shop/restaurant) a bit further along Whitesands.

I see that the Post Office Directory for 1911-12 describes the Hoddom Castle Inn at 32 Whitesands as being occupied by Mrs Paterson. But it's no wonder a few disappeared over the years; my map suggests that there were at least 14 inns in Whitesands and Brewery Street between Buccleuch and Bank Streets.

Ian