Agnes MccullochAge: 49 years1804–1854
- Name
- Agnes Mcculloch
Birth | August 6, 1804 36 24 |
Birth of a brother | David McCulloch June 27, 1806 (Age 22 months) |
Birth of a brother | Walter McCulloch November 21, 1807 (Age 3 years) |
Birth of a sister | Janet McCulloch March 4, 1809 (Age 4 years) |
Birth of a brother | Edward McCulloch July 30, 1810 (Age 5 years) |
Birth of a brother | James Robison McCulloch June 20, 1812 (Age 7 years) |
Birth of a brother | Alexander McCulloch February 15, 1814 (Age 9 years) |
Birth of a sister | Christina McCulloch December 30, 1815 (Age 11 years) |
Death of a sister | Janet McCulloch June 22, 1816 (Age 11 years) |
Death of a sister | Christina McCulloch July 9, 1816 (Age 11 years) |
Death of a brother | Edward McCulloch July 10, 1816 (Age 11 years) |
Birth of a sister | Janet McCulloch May 17, 1817 (Age 12 years) |
Birth of a brother | Robert McCulloch November 28, 1818 (Age 14 years) |
Death of a brother | Robert McCulloch January 28, 1819 (Age 14 years) |
Birth of a sister | Christina McCulloch March 13, 1820 (Age 15 years) |
Birth of a brother | Edward McCulloch March 27, 1821 (Age 16 years) |
Birth of a sister | Penelope Elizabeth McCulloch September 5, 1825 (Age 21 years) |
Death of a brother | James Robison McCulloch November 18, 1840 (Age 36 years) |
Death of a sister | Christina McCulloch August 1, 1841 (Age 36 years) |
Residence | Relationship: Daughter 1851 (Age 46 years) |
Death of a mother | Christian Robison March 19, 1853 (Age 48 years) |
Death | July 8, 1854 (Age 49 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 herself |
Agnes Mcculloch Birth: August 6, 1804 36 24 — Anwoth, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Death: July 8, 1854 — Anwoth, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland |
23 months younger 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 younger brother |
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 | One of her friends was a certain Mrs Burke. She was visiting this lady one evening when her husband offered to conduct her home: but Mrs Burke, for no apparent reason that Agnes could discern, most positively refused to allow him to do so. So she went home alone. On another occasion Mrs Burke shewed a most marked impatience for Agnes to depart before the return home of Mr Burke, Agnes, without asking the reason, or, indeed, noticing anything peculiar in Mrs Burke’s conduct, complied with her wishes. Not long afterwards, towards the end of 1828, Edinburgh, and, in fact, the whole country, was shocked by the arrest of Burke and his associate, Hare, and the exposure of their ghastly crimes. For long the medical profession, unable in a legitimate way to procure subjects for dissection, had been in the habit of procuring them, either through the grave raiding activities of their own students, or by purchase from sundry rascals who made the supply of bodies their business. At the beginning of the 19th century, the fame and popularity of the Edinburgh School of Medicine was increasing rapidly. So also, as a necessary consequence, was the need for ‘subjects’; and, correspondingly, the difficulty of procuring them. The almost inevitable result was the activities of Burke and Hare, two degraded Irishmen who hit upon the idea of manufacturing their own corpses, which they effected, mainly in their own wretched hovel in the West Port, by a process of rendering the intended victim insensible with whiskey, and then smothering him, or her, as the case might be. In this way a considerable number of people had mysteriously disappeared and never been heard of again. The horror of Agnes McCulloch can well be imagined when she realised that Burke was no less than her friend’s husband and that she herself had had a remarkably narrow escape from ‘disappearing’ along with many another luckless victim. |
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