Walter McCullochAge: 84 years1807–1892
- Name
- Walter McCulloch
Birth | November 21, 1807 39 27 |
Birth of a sister | Janet McCulloch March 4, 1809 (Age 15 months) |
Birth of a brother | Edward McCulloch July 30, 1810 (Age 2 years) |
Birth of a brother | James Robison McCulloch June 20, 1812 (Age 4 years) |
Birth of a brother | Alexander McCulloch February 15, 1814 (Age 6 years) |
Birth of a sister | Christina McCulloch December 30, 1815 (Age 8 years) |
Death of a sister | Janet McCulloch June 22, 1816 (Age 8 years) |
Death of a sister | Christina McCulloch July 9, 1816 (Age 8 years) |
Death of a brother | Edward McCulloch July 10, 1816 (Age 8 years) |
Birth of a sister | Janet McCulloch May 17, 1817 (Age 9 years) |
Birth of a brother | Robert McCulloch November 28, 1818 (Age 11 years) |
Death of a brother | Robert McCulloch January 28, 1819 (Age 11 years) |
Birth of a sister | Christina McCulloch March 13, 1820 (Age 12 years) |
Birth of a brother | Edward McCulloch March 27, 1821 (Age 13 years) |
Education | 1825 (Age 17 years) |
Birth of a sister | Penelope Elizabeth McCulloch September 5, 1825 (Age 17 years) |
Death of a brother | James Robison McCulloch November 18, 1840 (Age 32 years) |
Death of a sister | Christina McCulloch August 1, 1841 (Age 33 years) |
Occupation | A lucrative appointment was that in 1842 to be manager in the winding up of the Southern Bank of Scotland which had been acquired by the Edinburgh and Leith Bank. 1842 (Age 34 years) |
Residence | On the death of his uncle, Alexander McCulloch, in 1843, and his succession to Kirkclaugh, Walter left Edinburgh and settled there. In 1849 he became Steward Clerk of Kirkcudbright and retained the post until 1859. 1843 (Age 35 years) |
Death of a mother | Christian Robison March 19, 1853 (Age 45 years) |
Death of a sister | Agnes Mcculloch July 8, 1854 (Age 46 years) |
Death of a father | James Murray McCulloch December 2, 1857 (Age 50 years) |
Burial of a father | James Murray McCulloch December 1857 (Age 50 years) |
Death of a brother | David McCulloch September 20, 1858 (Age 50 years) |
Residence | By 1859, as the result of the deaths of his father and elder brother, he had succeeded to Ardwall and taken up his residence there. In terms of his uncle’s settlement, he made over Kirkclaugh to his younger brother, Alexander. 1859 (Age 51 years) |
Death of a brother | Edward McCulloch January 16, 1864 (Age 56 years) |
Death of a brother | Alexander McCulloch August 16, 1887 (Age 79 years) |
Description | In athletic exercises, Walter was distinguished. He was considered the best middle weight boxer in Scotland... He frequently walked from Edinburgh to Dumfries, about 90 miles, sometimes in one day. |
Death | In February 1892 he had a bad fall: when recovering from it he got a chill followed by bronchitis, and on 25 March he passed peacefully away in his eighty fifth year. March 25, 1892 (Age 84 years) |
Burial | 1892 (Age 84 years) |
Family with parents |
father |
James Murray McCulloch Birth: April 13, 1768 28 27 — Ardwall Death: December 2, 1857 |
mother |
Christian Robison Birth: 1780 — Strathblane, Stirlingshire, Scotland Death: March 19, 1853 — Anwoth, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland |
Marriage: September 19, 1803 — Strathblane, Stirlingshire, Scotland |
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11 months elder sister |
Agnes Mcculloch Birth: August 6, 1804 36 24 — Anwoth, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Death: July 8, 1854 — Anwoth, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland |
23 months elder brother |
David McCulloch Birth: June 27, 1806 38 26 — Ardwall Death: David was in the midst of preparations for his retirement from India and return home, when he was suddenly taken ill and died on 20 September 1858. He was buried in the Scottish Cemetery in Bombay. — September 20, 1858 — Bombay, Maharashtra, India |
17 months himself |
Walter McCulloch Birth: November 21, 1807 39 27 — Ardwall Death: In February 1892 he had a bad fall: when recovering from it he got a chill followed by bronchitis, and on 25 March he passed peacefully away in his eighty fifth year. — March 25, 1892 — Ardwall |
15 months younger sister |
Janet McCulloch Birth: March 4, 1809 40 29 Death: June 22, 1816 — Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland |
17 months younger brother |
Edward McCulloch Birth: July 30, 1810 42 30 Death: The last of the three who were carried away within three weeks of each other in the summer of 1816 by an epidemic, it is said, of diphtheria. The other two were his sisters, Janet and Christina, and all three are buried in St. Cuthbert’s Kirkyard in Edinbu — July 10, 1816 — Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland |
23 months younger brother |
James Robison McCulloch Birth: June 20, 1812 44 32 Death: James did not survive long and his brief but hectic career came to an end at Kingston on 18 November 1840 when he died of yellow fever. — November 18, 1840 — Kingston, Jamaica |
20 months younger brother |
Alexander McCulloch Birth: February 15, 1814 45 34 Death: August 16, 1887 — Kirkclaugh |
22 months younger sister |
Christina McCulloch Birth: December 30, 1815 47 35 Death: July 9, 1816 — Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland |
17 months younger sister |
Janet McCulloch Birth: May 17, 1817 49 37 |
18 months younger brother |
Robert McCulloch Birth: November 28, 1818 50 38 Death: January 28, 1819 |
15 months younger sister |
Christina McCulloch Birth: March 13, 1820 51 40 Death: August 1, 1841 — Anwoth, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland |
1 year younger brother |
Edward McCulloch Birth: March 27, 1821 52 41 Death: January 16, 1864 — Anwoth, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland |
4 years younger sister |
Penelope Elizabeth McCulloch Birth: September 5, 1825 57 45 Death: May 7, 1896 — Kirkclaugh |
Note | When Walter McCulloch succeeded to Ardwall the estate rental was in the region of £1760: the estate was, however, burdened to the very limit permitted by the Entail laws, for estate improvements and younger children’s provisions, the total debt amounting to about £10,0001107. But Walter was fortunate: at this time the agricultural landlord was at his zenith, rents were as high as they are today, burdens were trifling, and taxation almost non-existent. The purchasing power of money, too, was several times what it is now. Moreover, Walter was now past 50 and had lost the taste for the somewhat expensive amusements of his early days. He was a bachelor and lived quietly at Ardwall, his chief hobbies being the improvement of his estate, the support of liberal politics in the Stewartry, and the breeding of a fine herd of Galloway cattle. He was, indeed, something of a judge of cattle and in 1856, when the Highland and Agricultural Society held their Show in Glasgow, he judged the Polled Angus or Aberdeen cattle along with the great McCombie of Tillyfour, still famous as one of the great improvers of that breed. As a result, he was able within ten years, to pay off every penny of debt on the estate and, eventually, at his death, not only to leave a very competent fortune, but also to pass on the estate to his successor completely unburdened, in which state it fortunately remains to the present time. |
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