Alexander Mackenzie Cameron

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Journalist, poet, tutor, Supreme court interpreter, explorer in Burma, Maldives, Celebes, W. New Guinea and Himalayas, etc, adventurer, expert in map making in India - claimed to have died in India 1908, and to be wharf labourer at death, after bigamous marriage

Christened:
a date used for later reported age

Alexander married Louisa Mary Atkinson on 6 Jul 1876 in St James Church, Sydney. Louisa was born on 3 Aug 1854 in Berrima; died on 26 Jun 1919 in Burwood; was buried in Rookwood, C of E. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Patricia Grace Mackenzie Cameron was born on 6 Aug 1877 in Hereford St, Glebe; died on 29 May 1954 in Rydalmere, NSW.
2. Archibald Donald Peter Alexander Francis Lochiel Cameron was born on 12 Jun 1881 in Macdonaldtown, NSW; died on 13 Feb 1900 in Naauwpoort, South Africa.
3. Bryce Edwin Cameron was born on 27 Jul 1885 in Petersham; died on 21 Aug 1951 in Hardy's Bay, NSW.
4. Gladys Ethel Cameron was born on 30 Dec 1887 in Ashfield; died on 1 Jun 1965 in Toukley.
5. William Herbert Cameron was born on 12 Jan 1890 in Burwood; died on 20 Mar 1957 in Lismore, NSW.
6. Flora Mary Edith Johnson Cameron was born on 24 May 1893 in Burwood, NSW; died in 1964 in Toukley, NSW.

Alexander married Julia Agnes Williams in 1901 in Walgett. Julia was born in 1864 in Tumut, NSW; died on 15 Sep 1954 in Cronulla, NSW; was buried in Woronora, NSW. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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No known issue

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Indigo planter, in charge of Surbundy Factory, Furedipor, Dacca, Bengal, until ruined along with Alexander and Co. of Calcutta He kept 1600 fighting men, also a Mussulman woman Beebee Omdah Kamun, by whom he had issue.

Francis married Maria de Braganza. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Writer in Dingwall, J.P. of the County of Ross, Clerk of the Peace for Ross and Cromarty 1816.
Death date previously given as 8 Feb 1822.

Birth:
Listed as son of Donald Camron or Mckeddy and Lillias Dingwall

Donald married Elizabeth Mackenzie on 1 Dec 1779. Elizabeth was born in 1760; died on 28 Jan 1831 in Dingwall; was buried in St Clements Churchyard, Dingwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Dau. of William Mackenzie, Tacksman of Teanafield, and of the Mackenzies of Kilcoy and Applecross, and Barbara (1719 - 1788), dau. of Donald Dingwall Provost of Dingwall.

Other Events:

• Ancestor of Line: [Donald1] DONALD CAMERON of DINGWALL

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Tenant in Ross Skeen, Easter Ross
It is suggested (ref. IGI, not proven) that he left the Western Highlands after Culloden and the '45 uprising, then settled under an alias (McKeddy) in the more peaceful North-east at Dingwall, Ross & Cromarty. A similar story is attached to John24 family.

There is also a claim that the family descend from the Camerons of Fassifern (Ref: Chiefs of the Clan McLeod - "one of their ancestors, Donald Cameron, born in 1715 was second in command of the clan in the Jacobite rising of 1745"). Facts are confused but it is possible that Donald was son of a young John Cameron of Fassifern, not otherwise recorded.
Another branch of the family claims descent from Dr Archibald Cameron, similarly possible. From the two stories, descent from the Lochiel family appears likely.


Presumably a coincidence but possibly relevant are the couple Daniel Cameron and Lillias Dingwall who had a son John born 13 Mar 1751 in Edinburgh. Daniel Cameron was a Journeyman Taylor who married Isobel (sic) Dingwall, Indweller, in Edinburgh parish 1 Apr 1750 (ref. parish registers). No other children have been found for these parents.

Donald married Lillias Dingwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Dau. of John Dingwall, Heritor in Dingwall and Lilias Mackenzie, dau. of Roderick Mackenzie 4th of Kilcoy