When John McCattock Maith Campbell was born about 1346, in Lochawe, Argyll, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Sir Archibald Mor Campbell 12th of Lochow, was 37 and his mother, Mary Isabella Lamont, was 29. He had at least 1 daughter.
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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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