Ewen Cameron in NZ

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The Cameron Line

                 Ewen Cameron         m.            Maria Colquhoun 
                 c.11 jun 1783      28 feb 1811     b.abt1790
                 Ardgour            Kilmallie                    Info 1, Cameron Story
                 d.06dec1848 NZ.                    d.1873? NZ.
                                     |
   children mostly born Kilmallie                                      cont.
        |===========|===========|===========|===========|===========|=====//==
        Mary        Flora       Majory      Jane        John        Charles   
        1812        1814        1816        1815        1820        1822        
        |           |           |           |           |           |           
        m.          m.          m.          m.          no          no             
        |           |           |           |           issue       issue     
        James       Mr          Mr          Alexander   *****       *****      
        McGreggor?  Simpson     Perry       Alison                            
                                                                              

   children cont.
  =//===|===========|===========|============|===========|===========||
        Sara        Alan        Donald      Margret      Ann         Cathrine
        1824        1826        1828        1831         1833        1836
        |           |           |            |           |
        m.          no          no          m.           m.          m.   
        |           issue       issue       |            |           |  
        Duncan      *****       *****       William      capt.       James
        Campbell                            Henry        Donald      Campbell 
                                            Bugess       McKinnon            


To Ewen Cameron origins  in Argyl

Mary Cameron 1st child of Ewen and Maria b.1812 Scotland d. | m.abt 1844 NZ | James McQuarry (McGreggor?) b. d. | =============================================== Mary James b.1845 b. d. d.1944

Cameron/Campbell sheet2

THE ALISON LINE
Jane Campbell 4th child of Ewen and Mary Cameron b.1814 Ardgour, Argyl, Scotland d.1887 NZ | m. abt 1846 NZ | Alexander Alison b.1810 d.1887 NZ | children born Wellington? , NZ |===============|================|==============|============= Alexander Roderick Ewen Duncan donald (jnr) | william tobias (Toby) b.1846 b.1850 b.1852 b.1855 d.1923 d.1882 d.1945 d.1935 | ****** | ************ m. m. | | Annie Mary ann Stokeo Coleman b. b.1854 d.1913 d.1928 see sheet3 | | |============|============|============|=============|============|============|======== Jessie Alfred Marion Effie Annie Alexander Ethel patiece roderick alison myra jane edward(Ted) (Tootes) b. b. b. b. b. b. b. d. d. d. d. d. d. d. | | | | | | | m. m. m. m. m. m. m. | | | | | | | ? ? ===================== Molly Madge

sheet3 Cameron, Alison Cont.

  Ewen William Alison 3rd child of Jane Cameron and Alexander Alison
  b.1852
  d.1945 
  |
  m.
  |
  Mary ann
  Coleman
  b.1854
  d.1928
  |
|================|================|==========|===========|==============|===============
Ewen (jnr.)      Ernest           May        Roderick    Alexander       Ivy
william          |                |          |           |               jane          
b.1877           b.1879           b.1881     b.1883      b.1885          b.1887
d.1945           d.1941           d.1969     d.1883      d.1959          d.
|                |                |           ********   |               |
m.               m.               m.                     m.              m.
|                |                |                      |               |              
Winifred         Freda verna      John                   Ida sarah       Norman william
violet Reed      Bartly           Fotheringham          mary McClymont   lynedock Mair  
b.1880           b.1896           b.1877                 b.1887          b.1876
d.1972           d.               d.1931                 d.1959          d.
|                |                |                      |               |
|=============   |==========      |==================    |===========    |================   
1 Ewen william    1 Wendy noel    1 Robert ewen ernest   1 Jean mary     1 Jane cathcart mary
2 Ellice charlotte                                       2 Alexander ronald
3 Audrey                                                 3 Patrica may
4 Geoffery wynne
5  Lyned winifred                                                                            



Following the accidental death of Ewen Cameron in 1848 the family moved to Auckland


The Campbell Line
Duncan Campbell of Dundavie, Grandtuly, Perthshire
NZ family records suggest he was born 1821
however Dull parish records suggest 12 march 1818
and his age at death of 56 suggest 1819

To Campbell origins  in Grandtuly

Otago BMD 
River Drownings
Duncan Campbell  
found drowned 2 November 1875  Clutha River Otago

It  is not clear when Duncan came to NZ,
but he is not at Dundavie farm in the  1841 census

Duncan married on 29 Aug 1851    Auckland NZ to
Sarah Cameron born 1824 Kilmallie, Argyl

Duncan is listed as a Master Mariner on the birth cert
for his first daughter Margaret in 1852 Auckland


By 1857 Duncan's brother James was also in Devonport, Auckland where he married Catherine Cameron (Sarah's youngest sister) Southern Cross 21 April 1857 Auckland, 16 April 1857. At the North Shore on the 16th Instant, by the Rev Mr Heywood, Mr James Campbell, youngest son of the late Mr Alexander Campbell, farmer, Dundaree, Grandtuly, Perthshire, Scotland, to Catherine, Cameron, youngest daughter of the late Mr Ewen Cameron of Wellington, New Zealand.

Info 2 possible evidence Otago From a letter by Duncans daughter Maria we know that Duncan and James had moved to Gariels Gully, Lawrence, Otago to follow the Gold Rush september 1861. info 3 Schoolmaster Campbell By the time of his daughter Margaret's marriage in 1871 to John Glass, Duncan is described as an Agent in Lawrence but the following year he tried his hand as a School Master (which was how he was was described on Info 3a Margarets death cert) which he continued till his acidental death in 1875 children of Duncan and Sarah Margret b.27 aug 1852 married John Glass of Kinross Maria b. 1854 married Andrew McBeath 19 May 1875, Roxburgh Donald b. 1856 Duncan b. 1857 married Mary McFadzien, 8 June 1885, Fortrose Euphemia(Effie) b. 1860? m. 1879 George Anderson LAIDLAW folio No. 0722. Sarah b. 1862? Mary b.06 feb 1863 married William Rainsford Bennett, 12? Dec 1884, Waiuku According to my father Douglas Glass it fell mainly to Margaret (his grandmother) to raise the family after her mothers death 24 feb 1863 In 1887 George Laidlaw was a witness at the burial in Huntly of John Glass' youngest daughter Pearl unice. 1881 electoral roll index George Anderson Laidlaw, Te Awamutu, Storekeeper , Waipa electorate.
MCBEATH LINE Maria Campbell b.1854 d.1949+ Timaru? | m. Andrew w.? McBeath who was a store keeper at Lawrence and Tuapeka Mouth b.1842 d.1929 | ==================== Andrew
Info 4 James Campbell b. 09 jan 1835 Duncans half brother married on 16 apr 1857 to Sarah's sister Catherine (Kate) Cameron (born 1836) children Charles b.18? m. Issobel patterson Cousens Alexander b.1860 Margaret b.1865 m. Samuel edward portman Vernon Catherine b.1866 Anne b.1870 m. William edward Aubrey Jane b.1870 m. Andrew McGreggor Maria b.1874 m. Albert Swanwick Sarah b.1875

for extesive details of the Cameron and Campbell Lines in New Zealand contact Graham Stuart Park
(decendant of Catherine Cameron and James Campbell) who has extensivly researched both families

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