John Campbell was born on 1 January 1765, in Glen Garry, Highland, Scotland, United Kingdom as the son of Duncan Campbell. He married Margaret McPhee about 1786, in Inverness-shire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He died before 25 August 1829, in Matajey, Bolívar, Venezuela, and was buried in Port Ellen, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1817: Guayana province was liberated and became part of Venezuela.
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Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
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