Peter McCallum was born in Glasgow in 1864. His parents were Daniel McCallum and Esther Barr. He had brothers, Hugh and James, and a sister, Jessie.
Peter immigrated to Australia sometime between 1881 and 1891. He may have been accompanied by Hugh and /or James. The first record I have of him is when he posted his mother’s death notice in the Sydney Morning Herald on 10 February 1891.
Daniel, Esther and Jessie immigrated to Sydney as unassisted migrants in 1888. Daniel died in 1900 and Jessie (Hotson) in 1952.
Unfortunately I can’t locate Peter’s immigration records. I have no information on his death or departing Australia, however, there is a possible mention of him in the police gazette in 1901 when a Peter McCallum was the victim of a robbery on Flag Staff Hill, now Observatory Hill, Millers Point. There is a family story that Peter enlisted for the Boer War, met someone in South Africa and never returned. However, I can't find his name on the enlistment roll for that conflict, or indeed the Great War.
The records we have of Peter in Australia is his marriage to Rose Cremin in 1893 and the birth certificates of his sons, Donald (1894), Joseph (1895) and Thomas (1902). He lived in Balmain from 1893 to 1899 at a number of addresses (Sands Directory). He was named as a Clerk at the "South Seas Trading Company" on Thomas' certificate. As Rose was the informant on that certificate I presume that the relationship had ended before this date and the information not accurate. Rose did enter another relationship around this time, although she never remarried.
Any assistance on tracing his immigration record and what became of him would be appreciated.
