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Post by Robert S Cameron on Jan 19, 2009 3:53:14 GMT -6
Angus Cameron (1786-1855) was a Market Gardener at Port Glasgow, near Greenock, son of John Cameron and Sarah Cameron of Kilmallie. His wife Flora Cameron (1789-1884) was daughter of Kenneth Cameron and Mary Cameron, also of Kilmallie. Several of their sons were grocers in Greenock, all but Kenneth apparently emigrating. I know that eldest son John, with his wife Isabella McIntyre and daughter Agnes Lang Cameron, took Flora to Dunedin in New Zealand in the mid 1860s, where she died at 94. I would very much like to contact any descendants of Angus and Flora. A little more information should prove or disprove any connection to my own family. Full details of the family as I know it are recorded in the Cameron Genealogies on the Australian clan website, www.clan-cameron.org.au . See the Angus24 family there. |
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Post by robertscam on Nov 21, 2009 19:05:07 GMT -6
I have accepted that this is really part of my own long lost family, so they are now listed in the John1 family in the Cameron Genealogies.
The daughter that went to New Zealand was in fact Isabella McIntyre Cameron who married Simon McKechnie. I have contacted some of her descendants but I would still very much like to contact more relatives.
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Post by ianjonefan on Nov 25, 2009 22:53:09 GMT -6
My branch of the Cameron Clan also came from Greenock . I'll have to go back to my records , but when I was able to visit the James Watt Genealogical Library while in Greenock I was able to find some information about one of my great grandfathers . By the name of Hugh Cameron . This Hugh cameron was an avid sportsman , and won a gvood number of boat races . I have a picture of one of his trophies July ? 1872 . It was either a Argyle Cup , or a Garlochhead Cup . I'll check again which , and let you know I've also donated some information about John Cameron of Fassiefern who was either a Col. , or a Capt . of the Gordondon Highlanders Some books listed him beingv a Col . and others has him listed as a Capt. What they do agree on he was killed the day before the Battle of Waterloo. Acording to family history my branch of the Camerons is supposed to have a connection to the Camerons of Fassiefern .
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Post by robertscam on Jan 1, 2010 22:52:36 GMT -6
Sorry I missed your reply, Jon. There is a Hugh in my family, but he went to NZ in the 1860s. I can't place yours with what I have on my family. But by now I've spent a lot of time looking at Greenock. The online newspaper BDM cuttings from the Watt Library are wonderful.
Of course, the story in my family was of a close relationship to Lochiel - a whole load of nonsense, like most of the stories of aggrandisement passed down in so many families. Dare I suggest that your Fassiefern story sounds like one of those?
Bob
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