Thomas McColm, like his elder brother John, was a farmer. He married Janet Drennan. As indicated in the introduction, there was a mistake in the recording of the baptismal details for Thomas – McCallum erroneously replacing McColm
Thomas is the direct ancestor of Tom Brown of Belfast. He kindly supplied the documentation of the descendants of Peter McColm and Agnes McCreath. I have simply amplified the research and drafted the accompanying narrative.
Thomas and Janet had a large family; eleven known children.
Margaret (i) 1821-1823
Margaret(ii) 1823-1885
Agnes 1823-1865
Jean 1825-1843
Janet (i) 1828-1835
William 1830-1892
Mary 1832-1915. Married David Murray Lyon
Marion 1836-1852
Janet (ii) 1838-1849
Isabella c.1838-1916
James 1840-1923
Five of this family died young
The first born, Margaret (i), died in infancy – and, as was customary at the time, the next born – being a girl – was also named Margaret (ii). Another daughter, Janet(i) died age 7. Again a later child was also named Janet (ii). The second Janet, like her namesake, did not survive childhood. In 1843, the couple’s daughter, Jean, also passed away – aged only 18.
Sadly also, in 1841 Thomas died leaving Janet to raise the family single-handed. To support the family, for a time, she ran a grocer’s shop in Ayr town.