Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Campbell was born on 2 August 1819, in Bo'ness, Linlithgowshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, John Campbell, was 40 and his mother, Mary Durham, was 39. He married Elizabeth Smith in October 1844, in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Oakley, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851 and Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 30 January 1880, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Thomas Campbell, "Scotland Census, 1851"
- Thomas Campbell, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
- Thomas Campbell, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
1831 · Old London Bridge Opens
"The popular childhood rhyme ""London Bridge is Falling Down"" refers to the infamous overpass above the Thames River. By the 19th century the bridge had started to fall apart."
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
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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