Catherine Cameron

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

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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 Isabel Cameron on 1 Dec 1770 in Glasgow. Isabel (daughter of Dr Archibald Cameron and Jean Cameron) was born in 1753. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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It has not been proven that the known Bell Cameron, daughter of Dr Archibald, is the same person as Isabel Cameron who married Hector Cameron. If she is, it would best explain the strong tradition in Hector's later family of a connection to Dr Archibald Cameron.

Other Events:

• Ancestor of Line: [Archie] FAMILY OF Dr ARCHIBALD CAMERON

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Youngest son (Stewart p. 306).
Jacobite hero. Executed.

Archibald married Jean Cameron in 1732/3. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was "heavy with child" in Glenhurich, May 1746 (Lochiel of the "45). In 1753 she came from Lisle in Flanders to try and save her husband from execution.
Living Aug 1768, when mentioned in letter of her son Donald

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Jean is recorded as having written in 1746 of having two children buried in Strontian, in 1748 of having "4 children surviving", and in 1753, shortly before his execution, Dr Archibald writes of his "7 surviving children" (Ref. Chris Doak)

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of the '15. He was exiled to France, living in Paris until about 1827, and then in Boulogne. He was in Scotland from about November 1745, leaving with his son and the Prince in September 1746(Ref. John Gibson, Lochiel of the '45)

John married Isabel Campbell in ca 1696. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Dau. of Alexander Campbell 6th of Lochnell (Lochiel inventory)(marriage contract 1 Jun 1696, deed about marriage contract 5 Aug 1703)
A Campbell history suggests she was grandau. of Alexander Campbell 6th of Lochnell and dau. of Archibald Campbell of Ballimore and Margaret Campbell

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Marriage contract 3 Oct 1696

Archibald married Isobel Cameron. Isobel (daughter of Sir Ewen Cameron, of Lochiel, 17th Chief of Clan Cameron and Jean Barclay) was born in 1687; died after 1762. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]