Ancestry of William Justin Beauchamp Cameron (*1845)
Page AS III.7 to overview | |||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
| ||||||||||||||||
|
| ||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||
William Justin Beauchamp Cameron |
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).
|
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.