Dugald MacCallum & Catherine Campbell/Buchanan - Argyll

[Milliepede]

1871 from the transcript

Catherine Campbell born 1860 Muckairn Argyll is with

Alexander Campbell 57
Christina 49
Peter 29
Alexander 15
Mary 27
Catherine 11
Jessie 9

[Milliepede]

In 1861 Catherine is with the same family age 1.  No Mary McCallums lurking that I can see 

[Milliepede]

Could this be Mary with grandparents?

1861
John McCallum 60 powdermaker
Mary 60 wife
Mary 5 granddaughter born Kilfinan Argyllshire

address Deargbuaich Farm

1871
John 72
Mary 72
Mary Stewart 15 granddaughter born Glasgow so hopefully this is a different granddaughter than before because I am getting very confused!

[MissMacCallum]

Ev: I looked up the 1901 census, and Catherine Campbell is not married at that time. I'll have to look further into both of them. If only one of them would turn up with some sort of match for parents or birth year somewhere as a start.

Milliepede: You and me both! I'm so confused right now.. I found one Catherine Campbell born in Muckairn in 1869, but of course not with the right parents.. As for Mary I haven't found anyone that looks like a match other than the one you found with the grandparents which I stumbled upon last night. It's the closest so far, but yet I'm not convinced..

[Milliepede]

In theory those grandparents should have had a son called Dugald to be the father of Mary (if indeed that is your Mary) so perhaps we can try and confirm or rule that out.
Grandparents both born same place as Mary if I recall Kilfinan.

Is Dugald a common Scottish name?

[anne_p]

From Family Search:
Mary BUCHANAN b 22 Jun 1855. Lismore, Argyll
Parent: Catherine Buchanan

[MissMacCallum]

Milliepede: I'm not sure if Dugald is a very common name. I have a few relatives with that name, but if one person in the family is called that, children will be named after them. So, in my family it's fairly common, but I don't know about the rest of Scotland.

annep5892: Thank you for the information! It could of course be a possibility that she is an illegitimate child (I found the birth certificate of this Mary Buchanan. No father given.) Would Dougald MacCallum still be named as father on her marriage and death certificates if her mother married him later and she grew up with him as her "father"? I don't know how correct they had to be on the certificates..

Another alternative is of course that Catherine Buchanan and Dugald MacCallum is her parents even though he wasn't listed at the birth, but that Catherine and Dugald never married, and Catherine went on to marry someone named Campbell (and they had Catherine Campbell b. 1869 in Muckairn.)

I'm reaching with my theories now, but I'm really running out of options.. Haha

[MissMacCallum]

I'm not sure if these certificates are allowed here, so I apologize in advance. Here is all the information I have on Mary:

Sorry MM , the images are copyright , you can post small portions for handwriting recognition or transcribe the information if you wish.

[MissMacCallum]

OK, so now I used my last credit on SP to search for marriages involving Catherine Buchanan in Argyll. And what do you know.. One match - Catherine Buchanan marries Donald Campbell, 1860, Lismore, Argyll. I'm starting to think/hope that it's maybe an "alternative family" this Mary MacCallum came from.