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Although the Lairds of Myrton were undoubtedly the senior line of the McCulloch clan in Galloway, there was another branch of McCullochs that had more land and a bigger castle. The legend of how a McCulloch son acquired them from the Cardoness family is described in The Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway (Agnew, 1893).
It should have been a moment of celebration when in around 1584 William McCulloch, Laird of Myrton, married Marie McCulloch, the heiress who owned Cardoness Castle (pictured above) to unite the families. Unfortunately, the Cardoness estates had been repeatedly encumbered by debts, partly because they had been inherited by minors several times, and from that moment on, the McCullochs’ finances ran out of control. In the end, the Laird and his son Alexander defaulted on a ‘wadset’ (a kind of mortgage) and were ‘put to the horn’, which sounds painful but means they were declared outlaws.
The lands of Myrton were eventually acquired by William’s son-in-law John McCulloch of Ardwell. Although the Laird and his son believed themselves to have been defrauded and continued to try to regain their inheritance from their exile in Ireland, they never succeeded and the family faded into obscurity there.
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McCulloch
For other uses, see McCulloch (disambiguation).
McCulloch is a Scottish surname, commonly found in Galloway, and usually associated with Clan MacCulloch. It may be etymologically related to the Irish surname McCullough.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Abbey McCulloch (born 1990), Australian netball player
- Alan McCulloch (politician), New Zealand politician
- Alan McLeod McCulloch (1907–1992), Australian cartoonist, painter, writer, art critic, art historian and gallery director
- Allan Riverstone McCulloch (1885–1925), Australian zoologist
- Andrew McCulloch (footballer) (fl. 1970-1985), British soccer player
- Andrew McCulloch (writer and actor) (born 1945), British television writer and actor
- Andrew McCulloch (drummer) (born 1946), British drummer for King Crimson and others
- Benjamin McCulloch (1811–1862), American Civil War soldier
- Bruce McCulloch (born 1961), Canadian actor and comedian
- Christopher McCulloch (born 1971), American storyboard artist, writer, director, producer, and voice actor
- Derek McCulloch (comics) (born 1964), Canadian writer
- Ellen McCulloch (1930–2005), Australian ornithologist and nature writer
- Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, American college administrator
- Gretchen McCulloch, Canadian Internet linguist
- Henry Eustace McCulloc
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