James william mcculloch biography of christopher
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Fourth generation of McCullochs born in Ireland
1. James McCulloch (c1719-1774)
This was the eldest son of William McCulloch of Piedmont, who I wrote about in my last post. It was James who in 1767 wrote out the genealogy of his grandfather that was copied and preserved by James Iredell. (See my post on the Lairds of Myrton.)
He was known as James of Piedmont when in 1745, shortly after his father’s death, he was named as an executor of his uncle James’ will.
In the previous year, James had to start to sort out the financial mess left behind by his father. The trustees were supposed to have held the lands in the marriage contract and an additional sum of £1600 to ensure that if William died first, Dorothy would receive an income of £70pa and there would be money to support the younger children. But William had had other ideas. He used the money to speculate further and borrowed heavily. In deed 117-90-79755 it states that James needed to raise £4000 to pay the debts and
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Although the Lairds of Myrton were undoubtedly the senior line of the McCulloch clan in Galloway, there was another branch of McCullochs that had more land and a bigger castle. The legend of how a McCulloch son acquired them from the Cardoness family is described in The Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway (Agnew, 1893).
It should have been a moment of celebration when in around 1584 William McCulloch, Laird of Myrton, married Marie McCulloch, the heiress who owned Cardoness Castle (pictured above) to unite the families. Unfortunately, the Cardoness estates had been repeatedly encumbered by debts, partly because they had been inherited by minors several times, and from that moment on, the McCullochs’ finances ran out of control. In the end, the Laird and his son Alexander defaulted on a ‘wadset’ (a kind of mortgage) and were ‘put to the horn’, which sounds painful but means they were declared outlaws.
The lands of Myrton were eventually acquired by William’s son-in-law John McCu
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McCulloch
For other uses, see McCulloch (disambiguation).
McCulloch is a Scottish surname, commonly found in Galloway, and usually associated with Clan MacCulloch. It may be etymologically related to the Irish surname McCullough.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Abbey McCulloch (born 1990), Australian netball player
- Alan McCulloch (politician), New Zealand politician
- Alan McLeod McCulloch (1907–1992), Australian cartoonist, painter, writer, art critic, art historian and gallery director
- Allan Riverstone McCulloch (1885–1925), Australian zoologist
- Andrew McCulloch (footballer) (fl. 1970-1985), British soccer player
- Andrew McCulloch (writer and actor) (born 1945), British television writer and actor
- Andrew McCulloch (drummer) (born 1946), British drummer for King Crimson and others
- Benjamin McCulloch (1811–1862), American Civil War soldier
- Bruce McCulloch (born 1961), Canadian actor and comedian
- Christopher McCulloch (born 1971), American storyboard artist,