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May 30th 1932
My dear Albert
Did you ever hear of “Kate
of the black drop” in connection
with the Campbells?
Emma Irwin usually calls here
on Sundays, on her way to church,
yesterday she came a little early and
said she had a lady who wanted
to see the Campbell coat-of-arms.
This was Mrs Frazer of Belfast. Mrs
Fraser knows you and will probably
be asking you about this. Mrs Fraser
was born in Derry and is a
daughter of Dr Cuthbert’s. I knew
Mrs Cuthbert was connected in
some way with us, because I remember
her talking of the American
people being at her father’s place
in Derry. Mrs Fraser says her great
Grandmother was born in Aughalane
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House, and they went up there
one day last week to see it, but
I only heard this yesterday. Her
Grandfather’s name was Dunn,
and she says there was a McFarland
connected with them too. She says
Captain Dunn of Derry was called
“Charles McFarland Dunn” and he
was her uncle. I looked up your
“tree” and found [?] “Catherine” of
Catherine Denny’s children , but there
Is nothing known of her evidently,
She must have married a Dunn. She
says she was spoken of in the family
as “Kate of the black drop”. Ellen says
she thinks she heard that before, I
never did.
I’m afraid I must have copied your
tree wrong, I was making two copies
And have this “Catherine” as a daughter
Sarah (mother of “Big Ann”), and in
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the other as daughter of Hugh
Campbell—and nothing more about
her, Sarah’s Catherine married Sammuel
Anderson!—and we’ve never
found out who the Colonel John
Hamilton was in America, to whom
great Aunt Mary left money to
as “my late husbands’ nephew”
We liked the Frasers very much,
I had never met him before
though I knew Mrs Fraser slightly.
She is quite keen on the family
history now, and she has McFarland
documents, I think, which might
interest you.
Tell Lily the garden is like a
wilderness, everything is so over-
grown, I’m trying to get some
work done in it this week.
Love to both from both
Yours affectly Charlotte M. Mac Culloch
Transcribed by Brian McCrory
