McCall Sorn Ayrshire

[nessy]

Looking for any information on George McCall Born 1839 in Sorn. Father was Samuel McCall his Mother Marion Seaton also born in sorn. Thanks
Nessy

[runner]

Hi Nessy

I had a look on IGI and found the family . It looked as though they were the only McCall family in the village at that time.

Parents

Samuel McCall
& Margaret Seaton

JANET MCCALL -
 Christening: 30 JUL 1837 Stair, Ayr, Scotland
JEAN GIBB MCCALL -
Christening: 13 OCT 1831 Stair, Ayr, Scotland
MARGARET MCCALL
Christening: 17 DEC 1829 Stair, Ayr, Scotland
MARGARET MCCALL
Christening: 28 OCT 1833 Stair, Ayr, Scotland
AGNES CLARK MCCALL
 Christening: 18 OCT 1835 Stair, Ayr, Scotland

I don't think they were living in the village of Stair either. There were suggestions from a submission that they were actually in the village of Trabboch which is in Stair parish.

Website for Stair Village church  -  http://www.stairchurch.homestead.com/HOME.html

Trabboch doesn't exist now with the mines having closed and almost all local work opportunities gone. It was no more than a row of miners cottages and a wee school.

I looked for Memorial Inscriptions in the Stair Church site and there was only one which did not match your family.
Look at some of the other Ayrshire sites as there are quite a few pictures of the area.

Russell

[nessy]

Thanks for that Russell I shall have a look at the Stairchurch site.  I see you live in Kilbarchan, a lovely village, I used to visit there when I came over to Scotland on holiday.
i used to visit the antique shop there.
Thanks again
Nessy

[runner]

Hi Nessy

My son-in-law's father was brought up in Trabboch and is proud of the community spirit they had which, of course was destroyed when the mines were closed and only the elderly and infirm were left in a ghost town.

I wonder which of the antique shops you visited in Kilbarchan?
We're incomers to the village having only lived here for 40 years.
The local family history group I run has members whose families can be traced back in the village 250 years. Now that's what I'd call local. It does mean you have to be careful what you say since it might affect at least half a dozen familes 

Russell

[daylight]

Nessy,
Samuel was the son of George McCall and Agnes Clark . He was born in Auchinleck Ayrshire in abt 1804. He was a Tailor and married Marion Seaton on 7 aug 1829 at Sorn. George McCall was in Catrine Sorn Ayrshire in the 1841 census and was an agricultural labourer and was born c 1765-1769 Agnes Clark was born c 1775-1779 (both in Ayrshire.) They died before 1851 and so did not reach the Civil registration of 1855. One of my distant cousins in Canada is a descendant of this family through a sister of Samuel named Janet, She married James Hamilton my gt gt grandfather's brother. All the best Robbie

[daylight]

Nessy,
George appears in St Ninians Stirling  in the 1881 census and is a domestic Gardener with wife Ann who may be Ann Galloway and a James McCall b c 1865 whom I think is a step son who took his step father's name?? Cheers Robbie

[runningbear]

hi robbie welcome to rootschat my friend.

censuses for you and nessy

1841 census: mill street, sorn

george...age 65...ag labourer
agnes...age 55
jean...age 35...female servant
william...age 25...cotton factory
mary...age 20...cotton spinner
john...age 15...cotton carder

all born ayrshire

1841 census: trabachburn fens, stair

samuel...age 35...tailor
marion...age 35
margaret...age 7
janet...age 3
george...age 2

all born ayrshire

1851 census: wood street, catrine

samuel...head...age 46...tailor...born auchinleck
marion...wife...age 46...domestic affairs...born sorn
jean...dau...age 19...power loom weaver
agnes...dau...age 15...power loom weaver
janet...dau...age 13...power loom weaver
george...son...age 11
sarah...dau...age 8

all children born in stair

1861 census: 3 ayr place, sorn

marion...head...age 59...born sorn
jean hooks...dau...age 30...born stair
james hooks...son-in-law...age 40...ironstone miner...born ireland
marion hooks...grand-daughter...age 6...born sorn
mary hooks...grand-daughter...age 6 months...born paisley
janet morrison...dau...age 23...born stair
alexander morrison...son-in-law...age 24...coal miner
john morrison...grandson...age 1 month...born sanquhar, dumfries


1861 census: ravelston, corstorphine, edinburgh

george...head...age 21...journeyman gardener...born stair

hope this helps

Joe

[daylight]

Thanks Joe,
I had the 1841 and 51 censuses but not the 1861 so thanks for that. I will pass onto my cousin who is related to the McCalls. Cheers Robbie

[Lorand]

Hi all those with McCall ancestors,

I am interest in George McCall, b.10/5/1839, son of Samuel McCall and Marion Seaton.

He married Ann Galloway a farm servant from Cadder on 30/7/1869.  She had an illegitimate son, James, four years prior to her marriage to George and I am not sure if George was the father or not.  There were no other children born to them after their marriage as far as I know.

James was my g-grandfather and  took on the McCall name after his mother married George.

 I would very much like to find out more about this family from other descendants around the world.  If anyone can give me any info about Ann Galloway and where George worked as a gardener, please pm me.  I have photos of James who also became a gardener.  He married Christina Ness and had nine children.

Thanks
Lorraine