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THE CAMERON LINE

informaton from Stuart Park

 
Ewen   Cameron    b,  11 Jun 1783  Kilmallie, Argyll, Scotland
son of Angus  Cameron and Mary Cameron

 
EWEN Cameron 
married  28 Feb 1811 , Kilmallie parish, Argyll
(from NZ records at Inerscaddle,Ardgour)
to 
Mary   Colquhoun       
b.~ 1793

children
Mary           Cameron     b.          1812 Ardgour Argyll
Flora          Cameron     b.          1814 Ardgour Argyll
Marjory        Cameron     b.          1816 Ardgour Argyll
Jane(jean)     Cameron     b.          1818 Ardgour Argyll
John           Cameron     b.    4 Apr 1820 Ardgour Argyll 
Charles Mclean Cameron     b.   20 Jul 1822 c.28 jul Kilmallie
Sarah          Cameron     b.          1824 perthshire?
Allan          Cameron     b,      Aug 1826 c. 3 Sep 1826 kilmallie
Donald         Cameron     b.          1828 c. 4 jan 1829 kilmallie
Margret        Cameron     b.    1 Apr 1831 c.24 apr Ballachulish
Anne           Cameron     c.          1833 c.15 apr Ballachulish
Catherine      Cameron     b.          1836 c.15 jan kilmallie


    
Where no IGI records childrens birth years estimated from
 ships manifest and NZ records ,see info 2

Marriage at Inverscaddle Bay, was the marriage in the brides home?
More likely it was at the small chapple at Inverscaddle Bay part of Conaglen House, and that Ewen and or Mary work for the Connaglen Estate which emcompased nearly all the west bank of Loch Eil north of Inverscaddle including Trislaig where he was living in 1840.

With Trislaig being almost on the boundry of Kilmallie and Ardgour and Ballachulish just across the Loch it seems posible the family remained in Trislaig although the christenings occured in differnt parishes.

Inverscaddle Bay looking East to Ben Nevis

In August 1840
Ewen and his family emigrated to New Zealand with all the children except John on the Blenheim which brought out 197 people under the leadership of Laird Donald McDonald.
This gentleman was a representative of the New Zealand Company and a large landholder in the colony and nearly the whole of the body of emmigrants were composed of his own and neighbouring clans, from near Fort William, Invernessshire.
Source White Wings - Sir Henry Brett

According to her age given when the family emigrated Mary would have been only 17 when they married so was probable still a home, however Ewen's age was thought to be actually 57 rather than the 50 recorded so Mary's age may also have been reduced. but given the aged of her youngest child she was unlikely to be very much older.

Sarah Cameron   married on 29 aug 1851 to
Duncan Campbell  a Master Mariner from Grandtuly Scotland
 their eldest daughter Margret married John Glass from kinross on 14 mar 1871
  in the Wesleyan Church Lawrence Otago NZ

My thanks to Charles Staufenberg for the picture of Inverscaddle

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