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The Campbeltown Courier has an online archive, with a free 14-day trial period.

http://www.campbeltowncourier.co.uk/tag/mull/

The Electoral Roll wouldn't necessarily tell you the owners of the property, anyway - just who lived there - and as it was a shop, nobody did, as you've found.

For ownership, try a Land Registry search - various kinds of searches available, including historic, at a cost, from here:

http://www.landregistryservices.com/land-registry/scotland.asp

Thanks to everyone for all their input and advice
Nobody registered at 2/4 Union Street between 1949-1952.
It looks as though the owners of this property were likely
the trustees of a James C Macmurchy, and I am trying to
locate them (if still in being)
Other than this I guess the local paper might assist.
Ian

And have you followed up any of the suggestions I made in our PM conversation (copied below) on 3rd May, following my reply on another of your threads?
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/genealogy_chat/thread/1359727


From: Ian James Fowler
3 May 2016

Thank you ArgyllGran,
I will make contact as you suggested.
I don't suppose you would have any knowledge of Campbeltown?
I am trying to pin down the principals of a firm of bakers of
2/ 4 Union Street, with the name of J & N Mccallum.
Best wishes,
Ian



From: ArgyllGran
3 May 2016

Hello, Ian -
I don't know Campbeltown well, I'm afraid, as I live at the opposite end of the large county.
However, I'm not aware of a bakers of that name there nowadays.

These links may be relevant?
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1334893

http://www.missing-you.net/browse/Campbeltown-t27147.php

Maybe try contacting Campbeltown Heritage Centre?
http://www.campbeltownheritagecentre.co.uk/contactus.php

Or Argyll & Bute Council Archives?
https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/community-life-and-leisure/archives

Maybe this book would contain something useful?
http://tinyurl.com/zm278zz



From: ArgyllGran
3 May 2016

Ps -
Or maybe contact the local newspaper, the Campbeltown Courier. They've been on the go for over 140 years, and may have archives;

email [email protected]

Tel. 01586 554646 Fax. 01586 553006

Write to:
Campbeltown Courier
Main and Longrow South
Campbeltown
Argyll
PA28 6AE

https://wyvexmedia.wufoo.com/forms/campbeltown-courier-submit-a-story-or-contact-us/


From: Ian James Fowler
3 May 2016

Thanks ArgyllAnn, am making enquiries and hope for
a little good luck.
Many thanks,
Ian

Of course we all read the same boards so yet another post, on Living Relatives, is the last thing we need now. :-)

just not helpful to post multiple threads about multiple aspects of the same search

would the person referred to in the other thread

'Someone else on here is looking for the same man
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1334759
...................he hasn't returned since he posted his request for help'

who then deleted that thread have been Ian? ah yes reading further in that thread ... and noting the research I did myself there ... it was Ian and there had been a mix-up between them. And apparently Ian had posted info about JCC's marriage.


as I said in 2013: the only way to find out who registered the death in 1993 is to get the death certificate!

Name: John Calderwood McCallum
Birth Date: 27 Sep 1903
Date of Registration: Oct 1993
Age at Death: 90
Registration district: Surrey South-eastern
Inferred County: Surrey
Register Number: 6C
District and Subdistrict: 7602B
Entry Number: 178

any chance it was obtained?

scotlandspeople also shows a marriage in 1932. ?


and oh look, there was a thread on Living Relatives ... last month

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/living_relatives/thread/1359119

now deleted by Ian

Ian please stop posting and deleting, it doesn't help you or anyone else.



... so I spent a credit to find something Ian and Elizabeth may already know ...

1932
MCCALLUM JOHN CALDERWOOD
MCINTYRE LILLIAS CORBETT
CAMPBELTOWN /ARGYLL 507/00 0043

ah yes

http://www.curiousfox.com/vill100/Argyllshire17693_1.html

McCallum and McIntyre
John Calderwood McCallum was married in 1932 in Campbeltown to Lilias Corbett Kerr McIntyre. Would anyone have information relating to anychildren of marriage or any family members. Thanks.

there went my credit

and

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=745461.0

'There is a link in this search to my enquiry re Lilias McCintyre inasmuch as Henry was the brother to John Calderwood McCallum'

no actual link given, but

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=745409.0

Ian James,
Have you posted this on Find Living Relatives ?
You may have better luck there

Background.....
Requests for info relating to this James McCallum has been posted on various forums since 2013 and relates to child born out of wedlock ( adopted) in 1949 who is looking for the birth father/family.
(Requests come from the same person who posted on the thread from 2013. Already linked above by Chris)

All she knows that he was called James McCallum and that he was a Baker from Campbeltown.
Details on the birth mother, including her age in 1949 are already known.
It's believed that James was already married with children and a bit older than the mother.
His age/year of birth is based on researched guesswork.

The original poster is hoping to locate biological, half siblings

Look on the NLS site for details of Post Office Diectories

http://www.nls.uk/family-history/directories/post-office/index.cfm?place=West_Coast_Scotland

You could try to find the Post Office directories for the area. That may help you identify the owners.

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1334893?d=asc

(background info. looks to relate on above?, if any help to anybody!)

Chris :)


Elizabeth Report 8 Dec 2013 13:26

John McCallum was a baker from Campbeltown, Argyll in the 1940's. The youngest of 5 children I believe. He was born in 1901, and appears on the Scotland 1901 census. I am not 100% this is the information for the person i am seeking though. There seems to be a bit of confusion in the birth dates. I got this information from the local library, he was definitely a baker in Campbeltown I know that for sure.
Is there anyone else searching this person.
Thank you.

I wonder whether you saw the info I posted on another query of yours Ian

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/general_chat/thread/1353306

I am trying to trace info on this firm, together with
details of the principals and descendants.
The address is 2/4 Union Street, for years 1948-52 inclusive.
Nothing on electoral register.
ANY help appreciated.
Many thanks