The McCallums: Stories of a Highland Family & their Generations in Tyndrum, Glasgow, Australia and New Zealand

The story of a Highland family in the lead mining village of Tyndrum, western Perthshire adjacent to Argyllshire and their move to Glasgow in the 1820s. Using their skill at moving stone, father Malcolm and eldest son, Robert become successful quarriers and contractors. Respectability and contacts are made by joining the Maltmen at the Trades House of Glasgow. Robert enjoys commercial success along with a marriage to Agnes McCulloch and thirteen children. On the death of their parents, twelve McCallum children move to Australia and New Zealand in the 1880s. Their lives are traced and the next generations recorded ending with a sister married to a coast watcher in the Auckland Islands in WW2 while her brother becomes a conscientious objector.