John Campbell

Brief Life History of John

When John Campbell was born about 1734, in New Hampshire, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Campbell III, was 35 and his mother, Jane Davidson, was 28.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Campbell III
1700–1769
Jane Davidson
1708–1756
John Campbell
1733–
John Campbell
about 1734–
Margaret Campbell
1735–1748
Mary Campbell
1738–1828
Nathaniel Campbell
1741–1820
Hugh Argyll Campbell Sr.
1744–1810
Thomas Campbell
1772–1813

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    Name Meaning

    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).

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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