William of Kelloside McCall

of Kelloch-side

Samuel McCall was succeeded as a tenant in Kello-side by his son WILLIAM McCALL, who witnesses the marriage contract of his son Samuel, 7th August, 1707, and dying before 1714, was buried with his fathers in Sanquhar churchyard. The sexton, then a very old man, pointed out the gravestone to Robert McCall in 1814, but it was then very much broken and worn and no part of the inscription was legible; there are several of the name still living in the neighbourhood and many are brought in from the surrounding districts to be buried in Sanquhar churchyard to this day. Mr. William McCall made what is called a good marriage. About the year 1679 he married Marion Dundas, daughter to Sir James Dundas, the second baron of Arniston, one of the Senators of the College of Justice.

William McCall and Marion Dundas are said to have had a large family of sons and daughters.

• (i.) Samuel was the eldest, of whom presently.
• (ii.) George, emigrated in 1701 to the American Colonies, where he purchased an estate of 15,000 acres of land upon the Schuzekill river, which he called “ Douglas Manor,’ and there is an act of council, passed 24th June, 1735, entitled “An Act for more effectual vesting and settling certain lands in George McCall.” He married Ann, daughter to Jasper Yeates, Esq., of Philadelphia, a member of the council (of English descent), by his wife, Catherine Sandilands, a granddaughter of Jöran Kyn, of Sweden, who arrived in America from that country in 1643, and founded Upland, since called Chester, Pa.
• (iii.) Archibald, succeeded his father as tenant in Kello-side and was the last of the name there; he married Marion Hair who survived him, and was buried in Sanquhar churchyard before 1732. It is said that this Archibald McCall was father of John McCall in Nockinhare, in Sanquhar parish, who married Marion Young and had five sons, John, Samuel, William, George and Archibald, whose descendants are now about Dumfries, in the Falkland Islands, and elsewhere; but the connection is not very clearly established.

Guffockland is now Kirkconnel parish, which has been a separate parish since 1700, but at the time we speak of it was all included in Sanquhar. This takes its name from an an ancient castle, the remains of which are in that parish, the celtic words San chaer signifying old fort. The same word may be seen in the name of the parish of Keir, and in Caer-laverock, the fort of Lewarch-Ogg who is said to have founded it in the 6th century. The ruins of Sanquhar castle were searched with great care some years ago by order of His Grace of Buccleuch, and many interesting objects were found.

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References

• “Memoirs of my ancestors, a collection of genealogical memoranda.” By Hardy Bertram McCall. Page 9. GoogleBooks
• https://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getpe...