Tag: Starting Over
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Colin Campbell a trilogy
The story so far … I have been looking for source documents to link these two families. Colin CAMPBELL (1) Colin CAMPBELL1 of Grove Street married Margaret MIDDLEMISS in Glasgow on 29 December 1916, he cited his father’s name as Peter CAMPBELL (deceased) and his mother’s name and maiden surname as Elizabeth DUNCAN. Colin CAMPBELL…
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The Saga of Colin Campbell
What happens if there is an error in an original source document? When Colin Campbell and Margaret Middlemiss married1, Colin’s father was listed as Peter Campbell and his mother was listed as Elizabeth Campbell M.S. Duncan. A descendant of his2 gave his mother’s maiden name as Anderson which raises two questions: First, I checked ScotlandsPeople for…
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Which Colin Campbell is which?
I love it when people contact me through one of my family tree sites and connect their family tree to mine. This happened a couple of weeks ago through FamilySearch. Jean appears to be my second cousin; her grandmother and my grandmother could be sisters. I say appears and could because I am yet to…
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Solemn Grandure
On the ninth of February, 1859, a man known only as a “Special Reporter” described the scene of a recent bush fire, perhaps this was how the Davis family may have felt. He wrote1: “Having left Echunga after sunset, I had at least one advantage of travelling in the dark. The innumerable burning logs and…
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Fire
In 1859, John and Rosa Davis had been married for nine years1. had four young children2, and lived in Macclesfield, South Australia, a colony less than thirty years old3. In February of that year, a bushfire ravaged the area and several lives were lost. There are no less than ten contemporary newspaper accounts. The damage…