First two pages are jottings of names of consorts of the Argylls. Murders and polygamy: some actions of Ranald MacDonald 1st of Benbecula, who died in 1636, from the General Register of Hornings, Edinburgh.
Campbell, Niall, 10th Duke of Argyll.Abstract of the Particular Register of Sasines for Argyll, Dunbarton, Bute, etc, otherwise known as the ARGYLL SASINES Volume 1 (First Series).
Includes every Sasine, not just those with Campbell content abstracted by Herbert Campbell in 1921. The former ones, done about 20 years earlier, were full of misreadings and errors, the details of witnesses were not given fully enough, and many land names were omitted or misspelt.
Extracts from the Parish Registers made for Duke Niall by the reverend Walter MacLeod, copied in the General Register House, Edinburgh. Duke Niall then had them bound “that they may be added to the Archives preserved at Inveraray Castle”.
Every baptism and marriage including a Campbell parent or witness, male or female, is included. Notes of Search in Register of Baptisms: Inveraray (& Glenaray) 1653 – 1854: actually, up to the end of volume 4, 4th January 1820 (169 numbered pages).Notes of Search in Register of Marriages: Inveraray & Glenaray 1651 – 1819 (35 numbered pages). There is a note at the end of the abstract from volume 1 that the regular record was blank from December 1666 to December 1699. It was blank again, barring three non-Campbell entries, between March 1715 and June 1725, and again from January 1727 and November 1734. [Editor’s note: The pre-1699 section is particularly to family history researchers as the OPR original is in Secretary Hand, and very difficult for the untrained eye to decipher].Notes of Search in Register of Baptisms: Glenaray (separate record) 1702 – 1745 (15 numbered pages). [Editor’s note: It was during this period that the two parishes, Inveraray: the English-speaking, burghal parish, and Glenaray, the Gaelic-speaking landward parish, were disjoined].Glenaray Marriages (separate record) 1702 – 1745 (6 numbered pages). Although there is one marriage dated 1st April 1716, a note says the register is “blank 1709 – January 1720”. [Editor’s note: the 1716 entry is a repeat of a marriage recorded in the Inveraray Parish Register].[Title Page] The United Parishes of Strachur, anciently Kilmaglas, and Stralachlan, anciently Kilmorie, in the Diocese of Argyll.Notes on Search in Register of Births: Strachur 1745 – 1854 (10 numbered pages). Note adds: only 13 entries prior to February 1753. Irregular entries frequent, mother’s name rarely recorded prior to 1775.Strachur Marriages 1753 – 1854. This includes the marriage of Andrew Hunter of Bonnieton, from Dunholm, County of Ayr, to Helen, daughter of John Campbell of Ormidale, of whom the later Hunter-Campbells and Burnley-Campbells or Ormidale descended: the marriage took place on 21st April 1814.Stralachlan Baptisms 1764 – 1854.Stralachlan Marriages 1764 – 1854.There is a note that there are no entries between December 1803 and February 1806. Note of Search in Register of Births: Lochgoilhead & Kilmorich 1692 – 1854 (109 numbered pages). 1. Lochgoilhead starts on the 17th January 1692. Note says that there were no entries between June 1705 and December 1706. Also blank between 25th September 1727 and 18th November 1729, and few entries between 1730 and 1736. There is another gap between May 1739 and July 1750, but some entries have been added that fall within these dates. There are also several annotations in the margins in Duke Niall’s hand, one in particular being against an entry for the baptism of Jean, daughter of John Campbell, “son to Lugwyne” and Agnes Campbell his spouse, on the 27th April 1767 (page 42). Against “Lugwyne” he has added: “Lochwinnoch, cadet of Ardkinglass”. [Editor’s note: this is a reference to the Campbell family at The Revoch, near Lochwinnoch, who according to an early 18th century family tree at the Lyon Office were ancestors of the Campbells of Succoth]. Note of Search in Register of Marriages: Lochgoilhead 1692 – 1701 (40 numbered pages). There is a gap between September 1808 and “about the year 1819” owing to the (new?) session clerk being unaware of the existence of the register (page 35).Against the entry of the marriage of James Henry Callander of Ardkinglass and Craigforth and Edith Campbell of Islay (banns called 20th June 1847, married in Edinburgh Thursday 1st July 1847), Duke Niall has added “my maternal grandfather’s 2nd marriage” (page 40). Note of Search in Register of Baptisms: Kilmorich 1750 – 1854 (15 numbered pages). There is however some duplication, with 5 pages from a separate “Killmorich” register and 3 blank pages, between numbered pages 6 & 7.Kilmorich Marriages 1820 – 1854 (2 un-numbered pages only, again some duplication with above).
Notes, several in family tree form, of families connected to the Campbells, and the Campbells of: Glensaddell, now (1774) of Newfield; (Pages pasted together); Auchinbreck; Craignisch (sic); Bragleen; Kinnochtree’s descent from the Lyons of Glamis and Provost Donald Murray of Inveraray; Glenlyon and Duneaves; Inverawe connection to the Turner ferrymen; Balgairsho; Bragleen cadets; Peatoun, held lands direct from the Crown; Inverawe Cadets, the Duncansons in Inveraray; Achalader; Dalmarkglen (largely deleted by stroking through); Auchinryre; 8th Duke’s maternal ancestors the Glassels of Longniddry and Browns of Colston; Cadell of Cockenzie, also descent from Browns of Colston; Barbreck note; Craignish, from Auchinbreck and Craignish MSS; Loudoun pedigree; Stewart, later Menteith, of Lennox and Rusky; Skipness, and connection to the Macmillans of Dunmore; Edinample descent from Glenorchy to daughters; Dugald MacCondachie at Ballymenach in Lismore, mentioned in the Black Book of Taymouth, 1585 [Editor’s note: part of the plantation of relatives of Campbell of Inverawe on that island]; Ellengreig, and maternal descent from Drummond of Maddertie; Skipness, lands formerly held and changed to a feu holding 1749-59; Campbell-Maclean marriage extracts; Campbell “of the Citadel” descendant, late vicar of Market Deeping. Craignish lands post 1751, parts sold to: Lochnell in 1777, MacDougall of Lunga 1780, Barbreck in 1780. Duntroon lands (Niall of Duntroon vested in, no date); Duntroon, formerly of Raschoille; Barbreck lands and tenants, 1767; Glendaruel lands forfeited from Colin Campbell in 1715; McLiver and Campbell ancestors of Lord Clyde and US General George B McClellan [Editor’s note, latter part not proven]; Monzie descent from Lagvinshschoch and Glenorchy; Rosneath families, from tombstones; Peatoun additions; Drimdarroch and Inverliver, “both cadets of Barbreck”; Sonachan notes; Glenorchy, Duncan, 2nd laird, note on marriage to Margaret, daughter of George Douglas 5th earl of Angus, in 1479; Sister of the 7th earl of Argyll to James Stewart, Lord Doune, father of the 2nd earl of Moray, 11th January 1563; Balliveolan, kin to the MacDougalls of Dunollie. Patrick MacDougall of Dunollie’s daughter Ann Colina married Patrick Campbell of Balliveolan, and another daughter, Mary Jane, married Charles Hale Monro. Mary Jane’s daughter, Harriet Elizabeth Hale Monro, married Ann Colina’s son, Captain Donald Patrick Campbell of Balliveolan; meaning of terms “Eme”, and “Oy”; McCorquodale/McCorkindale note; Glasgow merchants; Campbell, Paton, Young, Orr and Denny, all related; Skipness Campbell and Graham marriage mentioned in the Dewar MSS; Elizabeth Gunning’s Irish ancestry [Editor’s note: as first the wife of the Duke of Hamilton (married 14th February 1752) and then the 5th Duke of Argyll (married 3rd March 1759) she was the mother of four dukes].Graham of Menteith ancestry, according to W M G Easton; Kinloch extract from Barcaldine tree; Auchinbreck cadets, Fernoch and Kilduskland; Campbell witnesses and full list of assize members at the trial of James Stewart of the Glens.
Campbell, Niall, 10th Duke of Argyll.The Genealogy of the whole Clan Iver, the MacIvers, McUres, McEwers, McEvars, Ure, and Ewer, etc, copied from other note books. At the back there are also notes and a pedigree of the MacTavishes of Dunardry [Editor’s note: the link is due to the traditional ancestry of these two septs from two brothers, Iver Crom and Tavis Corr]. Leargachonzie, Asknish and Stronshiray [Stronshira], chieftains, with all their cadets; [Loose fragment note] Bernice; Ballochyle in Cowal, who are the same as those designated of Kilbride on Loch Fyne in Inverdouglas. Includes loose sheet on Charles Campbell of Ballochyle, fl 1683-1723; Barmolloch; Ardlarich or Ardlarach in Craignish; Kirnan, first house only; Glasvar; Stroneskar; Auchadaherlich; Lechuary; Kenmore; Lettirnamoult; Lagg; Glasslough, in Ulster in Ireland; Pennymore near Inveraray; Auchintibbert near Inveraray; Fyncharne, on Loch Awe; Quoycrook in Caithness. In “The Account of Clan Iver” it is suggested Cluanary or Clenary near Inveraray is included, and an Evar Campbell with his son Archibald occurs on 14th November 1673, it is asserted in the old MS tree of the Campbells of Ardkinglass that Clenary sprang from the 5th laird of Achavuilan. [Editor’s note: copy of this tree held at the Office of the Lord Lyon]. Loose sheets outlining the early history of the name MacTavish; Pedigree of the MacTavishes or Macawis of Dunardarie, anciently always written and pronounced Tonardare, in the parish of Knapdale.
Campbell, Niall, 10th Duke of Argyll.Letter from Thomas Fraser Campbell to Sheriff J R N MacPhail, dated 19th October 1919, relating to his descent from the Campbells of Lagganlochan and Charles Campbell, son of the 9th Earl of Argyll; Copy of a letter from [an earlier?] Thomas F Campbell to John Campbell, Auchinleck, dated 22nd January 1830 emphasising the descent from Charles Campbell's second marriage; Note on the Clan Eachan or Mackechnie of Tangy, Kintyre and the Lennox, supplied by Sheriff Hector Mackechnie; Three letters to the 10th Duke of Argyll from Sheriff Hector Mackechnie, dated 15th, 20th and 29th January 1927, the earliest of which obviously accompanied the preceeding note; Notes on the de Multon family; Letter to the 10th Duke of Argyll from Leonard Dobbie, Midlothian, dated 20th March 1935 seeking details of the Campbells of Dunoon; Letter to the 10th Duke of Argyll from Duncan McKillop, late draper, Oban, dated 17th August 1914, relating to Mungan MacIachair [MacFiachar] and that family's connections with Loch Awe; Short family tree of the Campbells of Inverneill and Ross, showing the descent of N L Elliot from his paternal grandmother's mother, Elizabeth Rebecca Campbell (1764-1837), written in 1908.
was Margaret, widow of Hubert de Multon, was empowered by Charter to marry Sir Nigel (Niall) Cambel in February 1301-2 (Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, I, no 1289). He was therefore free to marry at that time. Elizabeth Rebecca Campbell (1764-1837) was a daughter of James Campbell, Killean, Inveraray, and later Inverneill, and his wife Jane (Jean).
See Bundles 381 and 406 for further correspondence on Thomas Fraser Campbell's descent from Lagganlochan and Charles, son of the 9th Earl of Argyll. See Bundle 407 for additional note on MacEachan of Tangy. See Bundle 409 for notes on MacFiachar origins.
Pedigrees of all the main cadet branches of the Campbells of Argyll, some described as fragments being only two/three generations.
Includes loose correspondence from Herbert Campbell, 1923 & 1929; _____ Campbell, formerly of Glenfeochan, 1928; John MacGregor, 1928 [compiler of the John MacGregor Collection in the National Records of Scotland – editor’s note]; and Robert R Campbell of Craignish, 1942. Pedigrees covered: Abnakyrk (sic); Ardtarich in Cowal, cadets of Ardkinglass through Deargachie; Ardlarach in Craignish; Achlian, cadets of Inverawe; Askomill in Kintyre, including a loose letter entitled “Genealogy of the Campbells of Askomell”, by Herbert Campbell, dated 18 December 1923. Also loose note on the late rev David Campbell, ancestor of Askomill & Kildalloig; Ardneave [Islay]; Achavoran in Lismore, cadets of Inverawe; Aros [Mull] cadets of Lerags and sub cadets of Lochnell; Auchinhowye, probably cadets of Ardkinglass; Auchinbreck bastard cadets, from the MSS Advocates Library Edinburgh; Auchentibert, a 20 shilling land in Glassary; Achnagowill in Glen Aray [Editor’s note: Auchnagoul in Glenaray Parish – 3 miles south of Inveraray]; Auchadacharlich in the Parish of Kilmichael Glassary; Balgirscho, Balgairschaus, or Balgerso, etc cadets of Loudoun? [Editor’s note: Place in Angus, family now acknowledged descent is from Donald Campbell, Abbot of Coupar, son of the 2nd Earl]; Balole in Islay; Barlea, cadet of Dunstaffnage; Ballochyle cadets; Ballemeanoch in Lismore, probably cadets of the 1st House of Lerags who sprang from Inverawe; Barnacarry, 4 merkland in Lorne, cadets of Lochnell; Ballichlavan in the island of Islay; “In” Barnalian, cadets of Inverawe; Castle Hill, cadets of Clan Iver Campbells of Quycrook in Caithness [Editor’s note: the 10th Duke’s idiosyncratic spelling of Iver/Evir has been retained throughout]; Castle Swine or Swyne, cadets of Ballinbay, who were cadets of Ichterachyn, who descend from Donald 3rd son of Sir Iain [John] Campbell of Calder, son of Archibald, 2nd Earl of Argyll; Corriehawe, 20/- lands in Kilmun Parish, probably cadets of Ardtarich qv; Craig, cadets of Balliveolan, extracted from Dunstaffnage MSS; Craigmurial, a 2 merkland in Glassary, perhaps cadets of Duntroon, or else cadets of Lag; if so they were of the race of Evir Campbell; Craignure in Mull, cadets of Lochnell through Bragleen; “In” Dalchennan (unidentified); Crunan in Angus [Editor’s note: from Donald Campbell, Abbot of Coupar]; Drumdarroch, a 15/- land of Old Extent in Lochow Barony. Said in a paper at Inveraray to be cadets of Barbreck; Daltoit, a 4 merkland in Knapdale, cadets in some way of Duntroon, probably of Lergnahunzeoun alias Ashfield; Danna, a 4 merkland in Knapdale, cadet of Auchinbreck; Dunloskin, a cadet of Ardkinglass, perhaps through Ardentinney; Ellister, cadets of Sinderland, [also Sunderland] which see; Cadet line of Calder, in Craignish? [Fragment]; Garvaline, probably cadets of Skipness [Fragment]; Eriska and Inveresragan, cadets of Calder. Loose note on James Campbell, late of Inveresragan, presently residing in Stilton, County Huntingdon, 14th May 1765; Glennan, with descent shown from Sir Archibald Campbell, 3rd of Auchinbreck, and Danna; Glasvar, cadets in some way of the McEvir Campbells of Asknish; Greenyards [Fragment]; Glencaradale [Fragment]; Kilmorie in Bute, cadets of Auchinbreck; Kelsay, etc, in Islay, from Isles Testaments, cadets of Calder or Cawdor; Kirktoun in Muckairn, bastard cadets of Ichterachin, and Calder; Knockderribarbour in Isle of Rosneith, [Editor’s note: Knockderry-Barbour, on the Rosneath peninsula] cadets of Ardentinney who were cadets of Ardkinglass; “In” Kenture in Islay?; Keithock in Angus, bastards from Donald Campbell, Abbot of Coupar, 4th son of Archibald, 2nd Earl of Argyll, who fell at Flodden 9 Sept 1513. Loose pedigree showing descendants of four sons of Donald. Additonal loose Keithock pedigree in another hand; Kilbride [Fragment]; Kintarbert; Kildalvan or Kildalvin in Kilmodan Parish in Cowal, cadets of Ardkinglass, perhaps through Carrick or Ardentinney; Over & Nether Kintraw or Kintra in the Parish of Kilmartin (cadets in some manner of Glenorchy). [Editor’s note: From the Breadalbane Papers (GD112) in the National Archives of Scotland it is known that Robert, first of this line, was the illegitimate son of the 1st Earl of Breadalbane]; Kintra in Ariskeodnish (cadets of Barbreck); Kilmun in Lochow, a 4 merkland, these may be the ones who were cadets of the House of Auchinbreck……. [Editor’s note: unfinished sentence; 10th Duke not sure of his facts with this fragment. This Kilmun is close to Lochavich]; Kilmun in Cowal (bastard cadets of Archibald, 4th Earl of Argyll). Duke Niall’s note: “Quite wrongly stated to be cadets of Auchinbreck. If there were Campbells of Kilmun, of Auchinbreck descent, they must have been earlier or else they must be referred to Kilmun in Glenaray, or the one on Lochavich”; Lag, sometimes Lagg, in Glassary, also recopied into Clan Evir volume; Lerags, the Original House cadets of Inverawe, or else Stronchormaig, the 2nd House cadets of Ardchattan and Calder, the 3rd House cadets of Lochnell; Leckuary, a 3 merkland in Glassary, cadets of Glasvar. Also recopied into Clan Iver volume; Lochend in Caithness, vide Castle Hill; Lundy in Fife, held by several different cadets of Argyll; Cadets of Leargachonie and Asknish …… or else as is most likely of Melphort alias Kenmore, or vide Kilmorie supra, with which they may have a connection [Fragment]; Ormsary, whose son became Ballinbay. Includes two loose pages with additional information on this family, also in the 10th Duke’s hand. Also correspondence with Evan Fraser-Campbell of Dunmore, Tarbert, dated 8th October & 15th November 1922, showing his descent from the Campbells of Ormsary; Also, Evan Fraser-Campbell’s descent was through the female Campbell line: his grandmother Helen Colquhoun Campbell (1811-63), a daughter of James C of Dunmore and grand-daughter of William Campbell of Ormsary, married William Fraser of Skipness in 1837. His father, Evan James Fraser-Campbell, was born in 1847 and died in New York in 1911. He had married Edna Arnold, daughter of B G Arnold, New York, in 1882.Their son Evan was born on the 31st August 1884, and at the time of writing was a Captain in the 8th AS&H. He had married Nancy, daughter of Henry Tyler, one time Mayor of Lousiville, Kentucky, on the 20th October 1909. She was born 10th February 1885. Fraser-Campbell notes in his correspondence that his wife was descended from a Michael Woods, who married about 1700 a Lady Mary Campbell “of the House of Argyll” (Peyton’s History of Augusta County, Virginia). They lived for a time in Ireland prior to emigrating before 1732 to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. They moved to Albemarle County, Virginia where in 1737 Michael Woods received a Crown Charter from King George II. It concludes that Mary died about 1742, as her name does not occur in any legal document after that time. Mary’s sister, Lady Catherine, is supposed to have gone to America with her and married another Irishman named Captain Matthew. The Woods plantation was known as Blair Park, and the family moved to Kentucky about 1785; Lix, Leix, Likkis, Lik, or Lickis, cadets of Ardkinglass through Deargachie; Oib, cadet of Duntroon who later succeeded to Duntroon; Ormsary, from Auchinbreck via Danna and Kilberry cadet lines; Lochdochart in Perthshire [Editor’s note: Breadalbane cadet]; Pennymore, cadets of Asknish; Denheid in Angus [Editor’s note: from Donald Campbell, Abbot of Coupar]; Persy in Angus, connected to the Campbells of Crunan [Editor’s note: from Donald Campbell, Abbot of Coupar]; “Bailies of” Glendaruel [Fragment]; Ardchattan [Fragment]; Kilmartin and Auchinellan [Editor’s note: fragment of the Kilmartin 1st House]; Kilmartin, Auchinellan, Ederline, Carnaserie pedigree, including additional loose pedigree not in the 10th Duke’s hand, and another loose note, in his hand; Pedigree of the MacPhersouns of Carrick in Glassary [Editor’s note: probably inserted here because the 1st House of the Campbells of Kilmartin were known as the “Mac Phersoun Campbells”, their ancestor being the Parson of Kilmartin & Ederline]. However, Duke Niall adds “I think these MacPhersons were MacLachlans not Campbells”; Cadet of Inverawe, 2 fragments describing David Campbell, merchant in Campbeltown, 1720, and the two preceding generations; Achalader in Perthshire, [Editor’s note: cadet of Breadalbane descended from an illegitimate brother of the 7th laird of Glenorchy]; Lossit [Fragment]; Glenfeochan, with note on the arms and seal. Letter, dated 3rd April 1928, from Mr Campbell, heir male of the Ancient House of Glenfeochan; Sannaig, later of Jura, cadets of Lochnell; Ardnablaich, wadset of, evidently cadet of Dergachie and sub cadet of Ardkinglass [Fragment]; Schawlint, various spellings used to describe a 4 merkland in Bute. Identified as a cadet of Auchinbreck; Kinnochtrie in Angus, showing paternal descent from Soutarhouses and maternal descent from Barrichebeyan; Campbell founders of Coutts Bank; Sorobay, a 5 merkland in the Lordship of Craignish, and possible cadets of that House; Sunderland in Islay, cadets of Ardchattan, sub cadets of Calder. Includes loose letter dated 4th March 1917 mentioning maternal descent of Lord Clyde from this family. Also loose note dated 10th November 1922 detailing other Islay connections. Letter dated 28th June 1942 with notes on relationship between his family of Craignish and the Campbells of Sunderland; Stroneskar, 3.5 merkland, formerly assessed as 4 merkland, 1st House bastard branch of Auchinbreck, 2nd House apparently cadets of Lagg; Strondour, 1st & 2nd Houses, descended from Auchinbreck; Soroba, cadets of Clenamacrie and of Dunstaffnage; Auchinard, cadets of, and eventually succeeded to, Dunstaffnage; “In” Sondochan, but evidently not of the true Sonachan family. Note says “probably of Ichterachyn” [Fragment]; Leargachonie, the main MacIver Campbell of Asknish line; Tierlagan in Lismore, cadets of Lochnell; Tirifour in Lismore, cadets of Lochnell; Torrane, a 6/8d land in the Lordship of Ardsheodnish, cadets of Inverliver [Editor’s note: Torran is in the vicinity of the present-day village of Ford]; Torrobolls in Islay, 2 families successively bore this designation, cadets of Calder and Duntroon respectively; Dowane [Fragment]; Woltown, a 40/- land in the Parish of Cardoss in Dunbartonshire, family identified as identical with Rachean, so cadets of Ardkinglass; Uig, or Wige, in Cowal, probably descended from Dunstaffnage; Ederline, 2nd or 3rd House, cadets of Dunstaffnage through Clenamacrie. [Editor’s note: direct ancestors in the male line to the present-day Campbells of Strachur]; Balerno in Midlothian, claim to be cadets of Lochnell through Stonefield. This volume concludes with details of the additional cadet Lines: Inverawe through Achacha, whose patronymic was MacLauchlan though they were clearly Campbells [Fragment]; Colin Campbell, burgess of Rothesay, died February 1560 [Fragment]; Colin Campbell, burgess of Bute, deceased by 20 June 1582, descendants named Cuthbert Campbell; Campbell of Inverliver – MacIver – Campbell of Kendmore marriage connections 1560-1633 from General Register of Deeds and Argyll Charters; Cadets of Inverliver, Glenorchy, Calder, Dergachie [Fragments]; Bastard cadet of Carrick, sub cadet of Ardkinglass, from Argyll MSS. The family of the reverend John Campbell, minister of Luss; Clunary, near Inveraray, cadets of Arkinglass according to one MS, but if so there were at least two different Houses. Then gives descent from natural son of 9th Earl; Row, or Rhu in Dunbartonshire, family of Archibald Campbell, formerly messenger in Kilmichael Glassary; Campbell-Buchanan marriages c1565-1629; Campbell of Argyll and Maclean marriage connections c1393-1597; Sir Duncan Campbell, knight, living in the diocese of Glasgow (Duke Niall’s note: can he be Sir Duncan Campbell of Redcastle, who married Susanna Crawfurd, heiress of Loudoun …. Fragment note with reference cited as “Theiners Vetera Monumenta”); John Cambell of Glenurquhie, his daughter’s charter from King David on 5 April 1358 [Fragment]; Clachan in Rosneath, identified as certainly cadets of Ardkinglass; Fynnard or Finnert, cadets of Auchawilling who were cadets of Ardkinglass; Campbell of Dowane, unidentified but “probably cadets of Ardkinglass”; Fragment, from Annals of Loch Cẽ; Campbell of Glen Douglas, an Ardkinglass cadet, marriage of heiress to Spens of Lathallan; Hugh Campbell, a cadet of Ardkinglass Duke Niall’s note: “was Hugh a younger brother of Sir Colin of Ardkinglass”. Marriage of his daughter to Alaisdar Macpherson, wadsetter of Culcherine, and descendants; (Same page) Duncan Campbell, minister of Rosneath; Pedigree of the reverend Ninian Campbell cadet of the old House of Ormidaill; Matthew Campbell and Andrew Campbell, both described as citizen of Glasgow, cadets of Ardentinny or Skipnisch [Fragments]; Campbell in Ulva [Fragment. Editor’s note: apparently still identified as cadets of Ardkinglass]; Probably cadets of Craignish, Oib and Inverliver, [Editor’s note: So described; two pages of fragmentary trees]; Campbell of Knap; Cadets of Inverawe; Cadets of Inverawe, Auchlian, as to Lachlan the Provost [of Inveraray] Loose copy of Lachlan’s descendants, plus loose note on family; Extracted genealogies from Lochgoilhead Registers, “all cadets probably of Ardkinglass, or Strachur”, over three pages; Cadets of Eileanrie who were cadets of Duntroon through the Campbells of Oib; Cadets of Ardkinglass, probably in Innerchorechan Glenfyne, later in Kylebryde & Culnacca in Glenaray Parish; Details of marriage of Mary, daughter of George Campbell of Kinnochtrie to Lt Col John Fullerton of Sennick, who died in Flanders May or June 1692. She died 17 April 1714, after which her testament was confirmed by her son rev Thomas Davidson, ancestor of Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury. Therefore her second husband must have been …. Davidson. [Editor’s note: was Davidson her first husband; if Thomas was an ordained minister by 1714?]; Campbell of Carrick; Campbell of Ederline & Kilmartin, 1st House, descended from the Bishop of Argyll; Discovery of the True Descent of Kinnochtrie, a quo the Second house of Ottar; Campbell of Soutarhouse, probably a first cousin of Kinnochtrie; Campbell in Corresk, cadets of Ardkinglass probably; Campbell in Mamore, Rosneath, unidentified but suspect of Ardkinglass descent in some way. Came to Fernacarry, Rosneath, from Lochgoilhead Parish about 1700; Cadets of Drumsynie, therefore of Carrick and so of Ardkinglass, later lawyers in Stirling, pasted in. includes a letter from descendant Lewis Macfarlan, dated 29 March 1912, and a loose note on the Ardentinny descent: Then followsPedigree 4 enclosures, repackaged in separate envelope: Small note on George Campbell of Stevinstoun from General Register of Sasines, volume 9, folio 139. “On 7 July 1615 with wife Jean Edmestoun gave wadset of of 5 merklands of Bogend & Ardeiris [Ardeer] (in Stevinstoun Parish) to Hew Campbell of Hullerhirst & his wife Jean Cunningham. On 21 December 1621 Hew renounced to George. Hew’s wife was then dead, but probably George’s was alive”; Press cutting from “The Oban Times”, of letter dated 26th June 1933, written by “North Argyll”. Entitled “some identifications” it includes a description of the supposed disinherited sons of Duncan, Lord Ormelie; Letter dated 9th August 1928 from John MacGregor WS, regarding MacGregor papers in his collection; Draft of letter from Duke Niall, on 28, Clarges Street, Mayfair notepaper, regarding the ancestor of Dunstaffnage; Tracings of the signatures of lairds of Roudill, Neill Campbell, 1688, and Neill Campbell, 1677; Partial pedigrees of Campbell families of Barcaldine/Corries, and Glenmore, sketches on back of Post Office receipt; Short note on the ancestry of Mungo Nutter Campbell, Lord Provost of Glasgow [Editor’s note: Mungo Nutter Campbell was a West Indies sugar merchant and member of the John Campbell & Company partnership. He was descended from the Breadalbane Campbells, and purchased the estate of Balliemore, formerly Otter, on Lochfyneside]; Scrap of a note, on part of a used envelope, relating to various Campbell families; Note of descendants of Robert Campbell, “umquhile” merchant in Glasgow [Editor’s note: Robert was “of Silvercraigs” and a member of the Blythswood family, so cadet of Ardkinglass. It includes the marriage of his daughter Janet, to Thomas Halyburton: they were great-grandparents of Sir Walter Scott, novelist]; A note on the foundation of an English College in the 15th century by the dukes of York. [Editor’s note: this appears to be a reference to the foundation of the collegiate church at Forthinghay, Northamptonshire, where Sir Duncan Campbell of Lochawe was kept hostage at about this time. This foundation reportedly gave him the idea for the collegiate foundation at Kilmun – see next]; Draft of a letter by Duke Niall, tracing the foundation of Kilmun Collegiate Church to a preliminary document dated 5th August 1441, predating the Foundation Charter in the Register of the Great Seal, dated 4th August 1442; A note headed 1645 Period, taken from a MSS given to Robert R Campbell, Craignish family, by Thomas Fraser Campbell of Lagganlochan; Letters of Horning proclaimed at Tarbert Market Cross, June 1539, against various persons from Kintyre for murder. (On back, various unrelated notes, source Argyll Charter Chest); A note on Alexander Campbell, a joiner in Sandbank or Ardnadam, descendant of Raschoille and Duntroon; A note relating to a letter from Mr Cowan Morrison, registrar for the Mull District, regarding the ancestry of the Mhic Mhurchaidh or Murdoch Campbells of Mull and Coll; Some short notes from dealings with the Lennox, from 1544 to 1546.
McErras or Fergusons in Strachur; Fletchers of Achalader and Dunans; McIlmuns or MacPhuns in Cowal; McOlchynichs of Chapelverna in Strachur [Editor's note: sometimes translated as MacKenzie, but now mainly as Shaw); MacNeills in Cowal; MacDougalls of Gallanach (fragment); Macindeors in Kilchoan; Fishers, a sept of Clan MacArthur from Lochaweside; Mackellars of Ardare, Cruachan, Maam, Kilblaan, and Glasslet, Lochgoilhead; MacEachans of Tangy; Clarks in Paisley; Clerks of Braleckan and in Auchnagoul; MacCallums or Malcolms of Poltalloch; MacNeills in Kintyre (fragment); MacCorquodales of Phantelands; MacDougalls of Dunach, cadets of Raray(fragment); MacGibbons of Auchnagarran in Cowal; Beatons of Pennycross; Bannatyne of Kames (fragment); Camerons (small fragment); MacAlisters of Loup and Tarbert; O'Duibhne genealogies, two versions.
Mostly rough drafts compiled by the 10th Duke, which may mean more complete versions are yet to be discovered elsewhere in the Archive.
Typed and handwritten notes detailing the descent of Major Donald Campbell of Castle Sween from his father Colin Campbell, bailie of Tiree. The handwritten notes are mainly extracts from the Inveraray Sheriff Court Books, with some OPR extracts at the end.
"The author of the typed note is not identified but it contains inaccurate information. Colin Campbell, baile of Tiree, was never ""of Castle Sween"". It was his son, then Captain Donald Campbell, whose highest bid for the property apprised from the late Campbells of Auchinbreck on 5th March 1761 was accepted (sasine dated 9th May 1763). It also says that a daughter of Donald married Prince Polignac, but this was Barbara, a daughter of Duncan Campbell of Ardnave in Islay. Barbara had 2 children to her marriage, a daughter who died 1833 and a son & heir to the title, who died 1890 and whose male line descendants still hold the title. In the private cemetery of Picpus in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, lies “Barbara Campbell Countess of Polignac born on the island of Islay, Scotland 12th July 1788, died at St Mande 23rd May 1819”. However it does suggest that Bailie Colin Campbell and the Campbells of Ardnave were related by being Islay Calder (Cawdor) cadets.
A mixed bag of handwritten and typed genealogies and correspondence.
Includes letter from Eva Farquhar, Edinburgh, to the 10th Duke, dated 9th November 1917 showing the Campbell connections to the MacLivers on Islay; the Denoon ancestry of Donald and Sir Malcolm Campbell of "Bluebird" fame; letter dated 21st June 1957 from Arthur A Campbell in Killara, NSW, Australia, to the 10th Duke regarding his Denoon ancestry; extracts from Register of Testaments in Scotland, relating to Campbells of Danna, Rudill, Raschoille and other Duntroon cadets; a family tree of the Argyll family from Colin [Editor's note: Cailean Iongantach] to the 2nd Duke; a fragment of the Lochnell family tree, in the same hand; letter dated 30th October 1917 from A Campbell Blair to the 10th Duke, regarding marriages in the Campbell of Sunderland, Islay family; letter dated 21st July 1929 from R Neil B Campbell, Major, retired, Indian Army, to the 10th Duke regarding information on his ancestors and tartan he should wear; pedigree of the Campbells of Succoth; handwritten extract from Burnett's History of His Own Times", vol MI, p89; letter dated 14th May 1924 from (indecipherable) Campbell to the 10th Duke regarding the wherabouts of the Glenfeochan charter chest; extracts from the MacLachlan of Killinochanach family bible showing relationship to the MacDuffie family and the Campbells of Rudill and Shirvan; printed extract from "Good Words of 1877" by Professor Fraser relating the story of the rev Colin Campbell of Achnaba (1667-1726).