When Gladys Kerr Campbell was born in September 1889, in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia, her father, James Denison Campbell, was 31 and her mother, Agnes Forbes, was 34. She died on 1 November 1889, in her hometown, at the age of 0.
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1858–1945 Male
1855–1889 Female
1883–1965 Male
1885–1952 Male
1887–1940 Male
1889–1889 Female
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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