William McCall

of Maidenhell

From Hardy-Bertram McCall's Memoirs of My Ancestors 1884:

He went to Liverpool where he was a merchant during the early years of his life, and by some fortunate commercial enterprises at the time of the Duke of Wellington's wars, rendered himself independent of professional occupation, when quite a young man, and purchased of the commissioners of the Crown, about the year 1813, an estate of some 275 acres of land in the forest of Inglewood, in the honor of Penrith, which he called "Maiden Hill". It was quite barren forest land when he bought it, and he built the house which still remains, and lived there for about 12 years, and most of his family were born there.