Person:James McCall (21)

James McCALL was son of Samuel McCall (1681 Kirkconnell, Dumfriess.-1759) and Margaret Adam, who marr 20jan1714 (Memoirs of my ancestors by Hardy Bertram McCall). Samuel M'Call (1681 Dumfriess.-1759 Glasgow) marr (2nd wife) Margaret, dau of John Adam, Glasgow mercht, and Mary Wood (Old Glasgow Exhibition, with more details).

Samuel McCall was a “Virginia Lord” (Old Country houses of the old Glasgow gentry). James McCall (12jan1719 Breahead, Glasgow-20mar1803) married 1761 Sarah REID (A. Duncan, rootsweb); birthdate incorrect. James McCall, esq. (1726) d. 22mar1803 and Sarah Reid McCall (1740) d. 27nov1822; both bur at Glasgow Cathedral (familysearch). James “Mcalla” marr Sarah REID 27jan1761 at Stevenston, Ayrs. (familysearch); Stevenston included Saltcoats.

Inventory of Mrs Sarah McCall alias Reid, widow of James McCall, Glasgow mercht, reg 1825 (scotlandspeople). From “Some old families” by McCall: James McCall, b. 31may1726 of Braehead, Renfrewshire, d. Glasgow 20mar1803, m. 27jan1761 Sarah, dau of Thomas Reid, merchant at Saltcoats, Ayrs. James is ancestor of McCalls of Glyntown, Cork, and Daldowie. James M’Call of Braehead (1726-1803), Glasgow mercht, was son of Samuel M’Call; James marr in 1761 Sarah, dau of Thomas Reid and Elizabeth Boyd (Old Glasgow Exhibition). James and Sarah had 4 sons and 8 daughters (Hardy Bertram McCall). See Burke’s Landed Gentry.

http://books.google.de/books?id=UfyHAWrsSWcC&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&dq=mccall+breahead&source=bl&ots=U4b6VGrXsE&sig=LZbe3LlWtZ_zuoJ6QOOn5gWdAs4&hl=de&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

This may be someone in this family, probably James McCall (1778-1866): in 1836 James MacCall of Daldowie was a land tax commissioner (“Statutes at Large”

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