The McCallums: Stories of a Highland Family & their Generations in Tyndrum, Glasgow, Australia and New Zealand
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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.
Author: Lawrence Robert McCallum
ISBN: 9780473749972
Publisher: Lawrence Robert McCallum
Published: 31/08/2025
Format: Paperback / softback
About the Author
Lawrence Robert McCallum grew up in Palmerston North and spent forty years in town planning and
resource management in New Zealand. He has an M.A. in Geography and an M.Sc. in Resource Management. Having spent years being questioned in court and at council meetings, his style is evidential where the facts are set out, described and where possible referenced, with any conclusions based on those facts.
He has published five books, two on George McCulloch of Glasgow, Broken Hill and Kensington and his art collection, a memoir (A Palmy Boy's Story), the life of his late father in law, Merchant Navy Officer and Tinkers Gully, Desert Gold and Other Stories, the lives and families of Jessie Patience and Lawrence 'Brusher' Gray. A sixth book
on The McCallums was published September 2025.
His self-published books (printed in Christchurch, NZ) have gone to libraries and art galleries around the world,
Scotland, England, Australia, Canada, USA and NZ). He believes 'everyone has a book within them' but some come out easier than others.