Ancestry of William Justin Beauchamp Cameron (*1845)

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Allan Cameron (7th of Lundavra)
* ~1742
+ 1805

Janet Stewart
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x 05-05-1788, Fort William, Scotland

Beauchamp Colclough
* 1732 Bohermore, Co Carlow, IRL
+ 1766

Bridget McCartney
* ~1732
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x ~1728

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Allan Cameron (8th of Lundavra)
*1760
+ 1829
(Army officer)

Bridget Colclough
* ~1765
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x 1802 Drogheda, Louth, IRL

Charles Cox
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(Army officer)

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Allan John Russell Bedford Cameron (9th of Lundavra)
* 1805 Drogheda, IRL
+ 01-11-1863 Aughamore House, Co. Leitrim, IRL

Helen Ann Cox
* 10-10-1819, Carrick on Shannon, IRL
+ 07-04-1891, Chorlton, Withington, Lanc.

x 18-04-1839 Dublin

William Justin Beauchamp Cameron
* 11-03-1845 Carrick on Shannon, IRL
+ 5-09-1928 Quilpie, Queensland

x Elizabeth Patricia Cameron

 


Loch Lunn Da Bhra
(11 km SW of Ben Nevis)


Cameron coat of arms

This line of the Cameron family is from the Camerons in Scotland, at Lundavra. It is a branch of the "Lochiels". Proof is difficult, because some archives were destroyed by the English in the time of Cromwell. For the history of the Cameron Clan see: the website Clan Cameron Online, Wikipedia Clan Cameron and "History of the Camerons, with genealogies of the principal families of the name" by Alexander Mackenzie (1884).
 
Lundavra / Lunn Da Bhra / Lunn Da Bhraighe / Lindavrah / Lunnd Deabhraidh / Lundowra: "Marshy Land Between Two Hill Slopes" or  "Deabhra's Marsh", is located south of Fort William and north of Ballachulish in Scotland. Local legend states that Deabhra was a chief in this area, in ancient times. There are ruins on an island in the loch that were supposedly a fort, by the name of Dun Deabhraidh (Dundavray or Dundawra): Deabhra's Fort. Lundavra was once home to a cadet branch of Clan Cameron.

Allan (7th) and Janet
Children in Scotland: Beatrix, John, Janet, Alexander, 1760 Allan (8th), ~1769 Katherine.
Accidentally killed, as stated by his son in 1816 in a court case, died in 1805. Other sources suggest a death about 1790.

Beauchamp and Bridget
Beauchamp was the eldest son of Henry Colclough (*1709) and Margaret Beauchamp.
Children: ~1760 Henry, ~1765 Bridget, 1766 Beauchamp (in Kildarvin, Ireland).
This information is taken from rootsweb. More ancestors through that website.

Charles Cox
Charles was Lieutenant Colonel of the 87th Regiment. He was a nephew of the Australian pioneer William Cox.
Children: several, among them 1819 Helen, Dillon and Pryce.
Dillon and Pryce would followed their uncle to try their luck in Australia and Helens son Beauchamp was later (at the age of 14!) joining Dillon there.

Allan (8th) and Bridget
Joined the army at a young age, went to India, returned ca. 1782. Went to India again in 1785. In 1792 he is "Lieutenant Allan Cameron, late of Colonel Tarletons's dragoons, unmarried". Later he joined the 83rd Regiment (British army) and became major. Then he procured a post in the civil service in Drogheda, Ireland. He married Lady Jane Dundas, but his wife died at childbirth.
In about 1802 he married Bridget.
Children: ~1805 Allan John Russell Bedford; 1808 in Drogheda: Adelaide Sophia (x Dr. Maharge; no issue).
In his civil post in Drogheda, on Ireland's east coast, he is said to be well esteemed. He had left the post by 1811.

Allan (9th) and Helen
Children: 1840 George, 1841 Allan Ewen Charles (10th), 1842 Henry St George De Halberd, 1845 William Justin Beauchamp, 1848 Georgina Barbara Harriett, 1849 Helen Anna (13-03-1872 Batavia x David Macnair), 1850 Richard Standish Le Bagge (10-04-1876 Batavia x Emilij Agnes Francis; they divorced 31-03-1883 and he died later in 1883 in Batavia), 1852 John Alexander Staples, 1853 George Francis Blunden, 1857 Russell Bedford Colclough.

Allan was County Inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary, but had to retire following a hunting accident in which an eye was damaged. MCR p.42: "This lead to a shortage of money as the children grew up and they became the typical impoverished Irish gentry, keeping up the style of vanished glories. No lack of old linen, fine silver and crystal, but a very noticeable lack of cash."
Allan died at his residence, Aughamore House, Co. Leitrim, in 1863. (Is this the current Aghamore House near Roosky, at the southern end of Co. Leitrim?)
Son W.J. Beauchamp went to his uncle Dillon Cox to Australia, then on his own to the Dutch Indies. He convinced some of his family to also come to Batavia.

Information mostly taken from AncestryResearchService. See also there for more Camerons.
According to the AncestryResearchService, the oldest male in this line is Allan Cameron, having a son called Allan Cameron, 2nd of Lundavra, born in 1561.
For more on the Cameron Clan with the branches of Callart, Culchenna, and Lundavra, see Cameron Clan .org.uk, or Cameron Clan .org. and Cameron genealogies.
 
MCR:  The lines about the conditions in the life of Allan end Helen were taken from "A Strange Bird on the Lagoon" by Margaret Reeves née Cameron, great-granddaughter of WJBC and EPC (1985, Boolarong Publications; ISBN 0908175 957).

(2017.04.16)   Original from July 2013.