Brief Life History of Malcolm
Malcolm Campbell was born on 21 December 1806, in Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. He married Janet McQueen on 15 May 1832, in Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Newton on Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851 and Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom for about 10 years. He died about 1895, at the age of 90.
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- Malcom Campbell, "Scotland Census, 1861"
- Malcom Campbel, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Malcom Campbell, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
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1811 · The Tron Riot
The Tron riot was a riot which occurred in Edinburgh, Scotland on New Year's Eve. A group of young men attacked and robbed wealthier passers-by. One police officer was killed in the riot. Though the total count of participants is unknown, sixty-eight youths were arrested, with five sentenced to death for their actions during the riot.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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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