Peter McCallum - Merchant in Greenock

[CelticMom]

James is actually in Paisley my error, it must of been another McFadyen ancestor in Falkirk.

Let me look again who it was. 

[raonull4]

hi
   the Peter Mccallum that married Margaret Park is the
Peter from Sprinkell St,Greenock he was known as
an iron monger and iron merchant
Margaret died 1841 Peter 1854 according to census that peter was born Renfrewshire,
both deaths are recorded in intimations in the watt library greenock

[raonull4]

hi Celtic mum
                  just a query about the Janet Tosh is there a possibility that its Mcintosh
Peter McCallum iron merchant of Sprinkell st 2nd Daughter was Janet McIntosh Mcallum
She married an Archibald McCallum a writter of some sorts

[CelticMom]

hi Celtic mum
                  just a query about the Janet Tosh is there a possibility that its Mcintosh
Peter McCallum iron merchant of Sprinkell st 2nd Daughter was Janet McIntosh Mcallum
She married an Archibald McCallum a writter of some sorts

Im not sure, I have her the marriage entry and it definitely says Tosh and her father was definitely Tosh too. Not sure why the “mc” part wasn’t used until later on but tracing her back it definitely appears to be Tosh.

[CelticMom]

hi
   the Peter Mccallum that married Margaret Park is the
Peter from Sprinkell St,Greenock he was known as
an iron monger and iron merchant
Margaret died 1841 Peter 1854 according to census that peter was born Renfrewshire,
both deaths are recorded in intimations in the watt library greenock

Thank you - Yes I have his will. Sadly nothing mentioned about Robert if he was his affair son, my Peter was deceased at that point.

This is more about the history of the company Peter and his father and his children  ran https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/de7650fb-cee9-3173-b7fc-83bc8cfe8227 - could that kind of like profession be referred to as an auctioneer, as in auctioning metal and iron? I don’t see any Peter McCallum auctioneers in any trade lists. But who knows.

I’m gonna keep working back in their lines for now and see if I get anymore dna matches.

[raonull4]

hi
 i m not sure about auctioneer referring iron merchant
but what i can tell you if there was a company in greenock
the dealt in wines and spirits McCallums that was a familly affair
auctioneer could refer to the auctioning of spirits

[raonull4]

hi again
the Janet McIntosh McCallum that married Archibald McCallum
had a daughter  Margaret Park McCallum

[CelticMom]

hi
 i m not sure about auctioneer referring iron merchant
but what i can tell you if there was a company in greenock
the dealt in wines and spirits McCallums that was a familly affair
auctioneer could refer to the auctioning of spirits

I have come across a Peter McCallum spirit merchant but he appears to be in Edinburgh and is there in from at least 1813 up to 1832, so possibly not connected.

I dont know why i just feel any merchant could be an auctioneer, as they are the merchant of selling goods, right? Which takes me back to Peter McCallum - Iron Merchant but maybe I am wrong. The only other ones I can see in the glasgow/greenock/paisley area are a Grocer and a Tailor.

The dna match of a branch on Janets side is not enough to convince me just yet. As I could match that person completely somewhere else. So still trying to rule out other Peters for now.

[CelticMom]

hi again
the Janet McIntosh McCallum that married Archibald McCallum
had a daughter  Margaret Park McCallum

Yes Janet is Peter and Margaret Parks daughter, but her mother definitely is Tosh and her father, grandfather.