Born in 1825, in Ayrshire, Scotland, John McKenzie Hannah was the fourth child of William Hannah and Margaret Lees. He is listed in the 1941 census as a 15 year old apprentice shoemaker, a profession he continued throughout his life.
In February 1848 he married Margaret McCulloch, the daughter of John McCulloch and Mary McEwen, in Ayr.
Known family consists of Helen Ross (1853), Margaret (1856), Mary McCulloch (1859), Agnes (1861), and John McCulloch (1871). There are possibly other children as yet unidentified, particularly in view of the gap between the last two children.
John and Margaret appear to have remained in the Ayrshire district until about 1870 when their son John was born in Hutchesontown, a suburb of Glasgow. They may have then returned to Ayrshire where Margaret died in 1875 as a result of diabetes. She was 47 years old. The death registration was witnessed by her sister Sarah.
The family may have then returned to Glasgow, as daughter Mary married Henry Glen in 1880 at a ceremony in Hutchesontown.
John died at the age of 57 years on the eighth of March, 1883. The cause of death was given as phthisis, or tuberculosis as we would call it today. His daughter Helen witnessed the death registration.
It is not known whether daughter Mary and Henry Glen had any children. Mary died in Hawkshead Asylum, Paisley in 1909 at the age of 50 years as a result of “acute melancholia”. I suppose today we would call that “depression”. The death registration was witnessed by an employee of the institution.
No information is yet available on any of John and Margaret’s other children.
Contact from any descendants would be most welcome.
