McCulloch family in Carsphairn

[rootandbranch]

I'm looking for information about Hugh McCulloch (sometimes MacCulloch) and his wife Mary McHutcheon (spelt in various different ways, just to complicate things).  I have not managed to find their birth or marriage details.  Hugh died in Burnfoot, Carsphairn in 1871 aged 83, and Mary died in Burnfoot, Carsphairn in1863 aged 80.  I have found records of their children.
From their death certificates, Hugh's parents were John McCulloch and Sarah (possibly McClownan); Mary's parents were William McCutcheon and Mary McMichael.

Any help greatly appreciated, whether info from OPR or MI.
Thanks
Iain

[Scatza]

Hi! I can't help you one iota, but since this board has been so 'quiet' for so long, just wanted to send a word of encouragement without meaning to sound maternalistic It has taken up to 5 years on various genealogy website discussion boards for an amazing gem to appear suddenly and unexpectedly...and so appreciated! I have family, not McCulloch, from Carspairn, so will keep a McCulloch eye open incase the name appears in any of the certificates I come across.

Patience is a virtue!
Scatza

[rootandbranch]

Thanks for the encouragement - but if patience is a virtue, maybe I'm classed as a sinner 

Waiting (in a calm, cool and collected manner) in hope

[Scatza]

Tee Hee! "Sinners all ".....its in my genes ...whatever that means! Just keep going, the ancestors demand it. My most special moment was making contact with someone who is writing biographies for men who died in WWI. In Auchencairn there is a Memorial Monument with two of my more "modern' family member's names on it. I knew little about these two young men, except that they were the illigitmiate sons of my ancestral aunties. Their lives came 'alive' as a result of this contact; so special that someone unknown to me also cared about the sacrifice of their lives. I had the photographs, he had the research...amazing what one can do with collaboration. I am not a professional genealogist, but over the years it has been clear to me that sharing such things have special satisfaction beyond 'bucks'. On every certificate I download from The National Archives of Scotland (Scotlandspeople) there are at least two others that somebody else might be looking for :-) McCullochs might be amongst them ...... who knows, we might be related
Keep posting!
Scatza

[Scatza]

Rootandbranch....how did I miss this? McGowen/McGowan. I am married to a McGowEn, but from Ireland as far as I have been able to ascertain. A McGowen who came to the American Colonies around 1780, just after, or maybe before, the Revolutionary War. Unfortunately my research on this side has lagged ....and I have found no relationship with Stewartry of Kirkcudbright McGowens and my Mcmurrays from there  so far. Where are your McGowens from?
Scatza

[rootandbranch]

hi Scatza.........my McGowan (sometimes spelt as McGown) side of the family have been in Campbeltown, Argyll, in Scotland from the mid 1800's to the present day.  The earliest I have traced is a Daniel McGown who died in 1877 aged 65.  He married a Jane Smith (not the most unique name to find ).   But I have not been able to trace their birth or marriage.  According to census returns, their earliest children were born in Glasgow, their later children (1851 onwards) were born in Campbeltown.
So are we connected?
rootandbranch

[Gadget]

Hi R & B

I've checked the MIs for Carsphairn but no mention of your two 

Gadget

[rootandbranch]

That's a shame, Gadget - but thanks for trying anyway

[Gadget]

 

However I have found the baptism of Hugh McCulloch, 13 January 1788, parents John McCulloch and Sarah McClownan, Straiton, GROS Ref - 617 Page 1.

Gadget

PS Straiton is in Ayrshire