Brief Life History of John
When John Campbell was born on 25 December 1763, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Alexander Campbell, was 53 and his mother, Margaret Campbell, was 27. He died in 1806, in Demerara, Guyana, at the age of 43.
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- John Campbell, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
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World Events (5)
1781
British temporarily seize all 3 of the Dutch colonies. Essequibo, Demerara and Berbice.
1783
French temporarily seize the colonies.
1796
British temporarily seize the colonies.
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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