Page 49
April 8th 1932
My dear Albert
At last I return the Pedigree &
with very many thanks for letting
me have it. I have copied it out
not so neatly as your book—out
at least I have the information.
It explains several things I could
mot understand while it puzzles
me about others. I always wondered
why great grandfather in his
will left Aughalane, which he mentioned
first, to Hugh and James Alexander,
thought it, being the most important,
would be left to the eldest son.
Evidently he considered his own
old house Letterbratt as the most
important- but then why were
the stones, as at least the coat-of
arms stone, built into Aughalane
Page 50
House? Mother used to speak of
“my Aunt Magie” this must have
been the Margery” in the Census
returns for 1821—but there is no
mention of Great Grandmother there
and she was certainly alive after
1860 unless the daughter Elizabeth
was then dead and she, great grandmother,
the “ Elizabeth” mentioned . Then mother
spoke of an “Aunt McClintock”, and
there was a press in Aughalane
called “Aunt Mc Clintock’s Press,” would
she be a sister of great grandmother,
I wonder? The “Aunt Magie” might
be the Margery who married the
Revrd. Robert Reid? Also I wonder
Why great grandfather was so insistent
in his Will that none of his
first wife’s family should get
Page 51
anything in Aughalane. Anna says
she thinks some of the first family,
the daughters , were very unkind to
his second wife where she came,
that might explain, (and I should
not wonder if the daughters resented
her for Fran[?] Donnell says he
brought his second wife “over
Corrick bridge on his way home,
exactly six weeks after crossing
it for his first wife’s funeral!!)
But Aunt Ann and the others
seem to have been quite friendly
with the “steps” and his children.
And Gt Aunt Mary Campbell who left
the money to mothers and Aunt
Annie also left some to “her late
husband’s nephew” Colonel John Hamilton
on the retired list of U.S. Army. There
Page 52
Must have been a daughter of
Catherine Denny’s married to a
Hamilton? In an old letter to
Mother from great Aunt Mary
she speaks of Uncle Robert and
her going to visit this Colonel
Hamilton, and being much pleased
with their visit. He must have been
the son of the 3rd daughter Sarah who
went to America?
Sunday
I began this letter on Friday night
meaning to post it yesterday. I didn’t
get it finished and yesterday morning
had to go to see some work the men
were doing in the upper part of the
farm and missed our very early
post. Unless we post before 12 o’clock
we have to take the letters to Killaloo
which is 1¼ miles off! As name of my [?]
side and top of Page 49
[?] the letter go on!
I hear Charles
Clarke is giving
Up the idea
of disputing
Hugh
Campbell’s
will- The
lawyers
won’t take
the case makes
all the[?] overseas[?]
business
joins- Charles
says!
I’d never
Want to
Dispute
Hugh’s Will
But I’d
Gladly take what
We’d get of
Hazlett’s money!
Much love
To both from both
Top of page 50
Please thank
Lily for her
Nice letter.
I hope you
Are clear of
The painters!
Yours affectly
Charlotte M. MacCulloch
Transcribed by Brian McCrory