Verney Lovett Cameron

Notes:

Solicitor. Known as a first class cricketer in the 1860s

Verney married Margaret Elizabeth Fraser on 7 Apr 1875 in St Kilda, Vic. Margaret was born in ca 1855; died in Mar 1945 in Warhoonga, NSW. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Henry Gervais (Jervis) Cameron was born on 19 Feb 1876 in St Kilda, Vic; died on 11 Dec 1876 in St Kilda, Vic.
2. Verney Lovett Cameron was born on 19 Feb 1876 in St Kilda, Vic; died on 17 Nov 1947 in Turramurra, NSW.
3. Eleanor Isabel Lovett Cameron was born in 1877 in Kew, Vic; died in 1964 in Parramatta, NSW.
4. Frances Mary Lovett Cameron was born in 1877 in Kew, Vic; died in 1966 in St Leonards, NSW.
5. Major Henry Gervais Cameron, MC, DSO was born on 27 Jan 1880 in Richmond, Vic; died on 9 Feb 1966; was buried in Fawkner, Vic.
6. Marie Madeleine Cameron was born on 19 Sep 1881 in St Kilda, Vic.

Notes:

Settler - he had a pastoral run Licence in Westernport in 1846. Later stock and share broker and town clerk of Richmond.

Henry married Mary Ann Hill in 1852 in Vic. Mary was born in ca 1810 in Liverpool, England; died on 11 Mar 1861 in Melbourne; was buried in Melbourne General Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She migrated ca 1840 to Victoria.
Married as widow.
Death cert. gives her parents as James Hill (painter) and Mary Ann Jones.
She had previously married, 7 Feb 1833, St Martin, Liverpool, James Whittle. His death ca 1852 has not been identified.

Name:
Later recorded as Hillsden or Hilston.

Notes:

Family tree gives birth date of 27 Nov 1777.
He was later known by some of his family as Hector Lochiel Cameron.
Matriculated to Glasgow University 1789. He joined 41st Regt an ensign 1795, at Peninsular War in 9th Regt.

Birth:
Ref. Glasgow register

Hector married Elizabeth Lovett on 23 Oct 1797 in Clonmell, Ireland. Elizabeth was born in ca 1776; died on 22 Jul 1848 in Birkenhead. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Eldest dau. of Rev. Verney Lovett, DD of Lismore, Waterford, and Frances Mary Gervais

Other Events:

• Ancestor of Line: [Hector4] HECTOR CAMERON - LOVETT CAMERONS

Notes:

Merchant in Glasgow from at least 1770, listed in 1787 as Woollen and Linen-Draper,at Gallowgate. He is recorded as witnessing a sasine for Ewen Cameron of Glenevis in 1777 at Edinburgh.

Family tradition has long described him as a younger son of Dr Archibald Cameron. Hector is an unlikely name for a son of Archibald and Jean, and there is no evidence to suggest such a person may exist. The tradition may well come from a skewed story concerning Hector's first wife, Isabel Cameron, possibly the same person as Bell, known posthumous daughter of Archibald.

If Hector followed something of the usual naming pattern for his children with Isabel, his parents could be Hugh Cameron and Catherine - and Catherine is likely to be a Maclean where the name Hector is common. (Of course for the standard pattern Catherine should refer to Isabel's mother)

Such a family has been noted in Glasgow about the right time, though as yet no record of Hector's birth has been found. Hugh Cameron and Kathryn McLean had three children baptised in Glasgow, David 9 Sep 1739, Daniel 15 Jul 1742, and Hugh 24 Aug 1744. No other children were born to this family in Glasgow between 1730 and 1750, so it cannot be accepted as certain that this family is connected to Hector.

Hector Cameron is said to have made a will in Glasgow 1791, not available in Scottish Wills index.
Their small property at Oban was sold by guardians of their surviving son (SRO).

(The Glasgow register shows a Hector Cameron witness, with a Donald and a Hugh Cameron, to baptism of children of Alexander Cameron, sower or sawer, and Marjory Cameron in 1786-90. ?relevant)

Hector married Janet Maclean on 22 Jul 1774 in Glasgow. Janet (daughter of John Maclean and Margaret Campbell) died on 20 May 1788 in Glasgow; was buried in Ramshorn and Blackfriars Church, Glasgow. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died of fever. Buried with 2 children in "Alexander Bayne's Lair" presumably a relative, perhaps through the Campbells (Ref. Chris Doak)

Notes:

Married:
Ref. Glasgow register