The Tree - Person Sheet
The Tree - Person Sheet
NameWilliam McCaul
Birth28 Apr 1808, Glasgow, Scotland
Death24 Nov 1861, 29 Scotia St, Glasgow
BurialNov 1861, Ramshorn Burying Ground, Ramshorn/Blackfriars, Glasgow, Scotland
OccupationWest Indian Merchant, Commission Agent
FatherGilbert McCaul (ca1765-1842)
MotherJanet (Jessie) McFarlan (1770-1845)
Misc. Notes
Name, date and place of birth and death, date and place of marriage, from “McCaul Family Scotland” (first compiled in 1991 and updated to 2002) by Marcia Barbara (Barbara) McCaul, Canada (b. 1932, d. 2002). Barbara was the great-great grandaughter of Gilbert McCaul (b. 1765) and Janet McFarlan (b. 1770). Brian of nzolivers.com is the great-great-great grandson of Gilbert and Janet.

Barbara writes:
Occupation: West Indian Merchant, Commission Agent;
Burgess of Glasgow 18 Jun 1839 by his father
Accountant, Wm McCAUL & Co. Merchants & Shipbrokers, 3 Royal Exchange (1840)
Accountant with James Ure's , 146 Buchanan St. (1858)
Commission Agent (1861)

Res: 1840 ? 144 West Campbell Street
Res: 1841 ?
Res: 1847: Franklin Terrace, Partick, Hillhead, Glasgow
Res: 1851: ? Franklin Terrace, Partick, Hillhead, Glasgow or
Res: 1851: 29 Scotia Street (Columbia Place) (with William McCAUL)
Res: 1858 Columbia Place, 29 Scotia Street
Res: 1861 29 Scotia Street (died 24.11.1861) Census checked.

Married to Lucy Sloane, daughter of William Sloane, Merchant of Glasgow, (& of Wm. Sloane & Co. Australia - See Henderson's Australian Families)

We have been unable to trace two of his sons - Malcolm, and William, believed to have died outwith Scotland. His other son James Sloane McCAUL has descendants still living in Glasgow
Spouses
Birth26 Jan 1811
Death10 Nov 1890, 21 Glasgow r., Hillhead/Partick, Glasgow
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