Family Group Sheet

Husband     Duncan Cameron  [Uncle of Meg Smith SWANNEY [AN007]]

Born

11 Sept 1859, Drummussady, Boleskine (B/1859/092-1/18 Boleskine & Stratherrick) (Census 1891; Katharine Watson family bible)

Chr.

 

Married

Duncan CAMERON, Gamekeeper (bachelor, 27 yrs, Dunmaglass), son of Duncan CAMERON, crofter, and Catherine McTAVISH, married Catherine SMITH, housekeeper (spinster, 24 yrs, Balnagaig, Dunmaglass), daur of John SMITH and Ann McBEAN, on 9 Dec 1886 at Dunmaglass, Dunlichity, Inverness-shire (Free Church of Scotland Banns) (M/1886/095-00/1 Daviot & Dunlichity, Inverness-shire).

Died

25 December 1944, Lakeview, Errogie, age 85 yrs (D/1944/096-A/12 Dores)

Buried

Boleskine Burying Ground, Inverness-shire

Husband’s Father    Duncan CAMERON, crofter                                                   

Husband’s Mother           Catherine McTAVISH

Other wives  none

     

 

Notes: Head Gamekeeper, Dunmaglass estate, living at Dunmaglass Lodge, Aberarder, until early C.20th.  Then [laird’s relation?] returned from (Boer or 1914-1918 War?) and was given the house (or job?).  Thereafter removed to Lakeview, Errogie, Stratherrick, Inverness-shire, early C.20th, where lived from ?July 1910? until death on Christmas Day, 1944. House had been purchased.  May have been employed as gamekeeper on Wester Aberchalder estate for the Gordon-Clarke family.  Head Keeper on Foyers estate of British Aluminium Company from 1920 to at least 1936.  Carrying on as gamekeeper, aged 76 yrs, in ?1936 (newspaper story, clay pigeon shoot, Longman, Inverness). Spoke Gaelic & English (1891 Census)

 

Wife       Catherine Smith (Kate)     [Paternal aunt of Meg Smith SWANNEY [AN007]; sister of Hugh SMITH [AN014]]

Born

27 Jun 1862 at Lynrich of Farr, Dunlichity (B/095/1862/24 Daviot & Dunlichity, Inverness-shire)

Chr.

 

Died

7 April 1944, 81 yrs, Lakeview, Errogie, Dores, Inverness-shire (D/1944/096-A/4 Dores, Inverness-shire). (Carcinoma of hepatic flexure with secondaries in liver.)  (had been in “indifferent health” for over a year: newspaper obit)

Buried

Boleskine Burying Ground, Inverness-shire (newspaper obit: “the largest [funeral] seen in the district for a long period of time”)

Wife’s Father    John SMITH [AN028] (shepherd, Dunmaglass)

Wife’s Mother    Ann McBean [AN029] (Annie)    

Other husbands  none

     

 

Notes: Catharine was recorded, 18 yrs, at Balnagaig, Achnalodden, Dunmaglass in household of father, John Smith (1881 Census; at same address at time of marriage in 1886. Spoke Gaelic & English (1891 Census)

 

Children  [First cousins of Meg SWANNEY [AN007]; their children are second cousins of Eleanor SWANNEY [AN003]]

Sex     Name

Born

Married

Died

1 M   Duncan CAMERON

(father’s father’s name)

 

25 Sept 1887, 7.45 pm, Dunmaglass (B/1887/095/22 Daviot & Dunlichity)

Never married.  No issue?  Active service in France, WWI. After cessation hostilities, appointed mails contractor for Strathnairn district. Later, appointed inspector for Northern area of Scotland under Min of Transport. Member of Scottish clay pigeon team in international contests. Member of Stratherrick & district shinty & gun clubs.  Funeral “was attended by the largest concourse of mourners ever seen within memory in the district … with mourners from far and wide … paying trobute to a worthy son of worthy parents”.

At “Lakeview”, Errogie, on the 19th Dec 1932.  Aged 45 years.  Buried Boleskine Burying-ground (newspaper Obit.)

2 M  John CAMERON

 

(mother’s father’s name)

 

20 April 1890, Dunmaglass (B/1890/095/xx Daviot & Dunlichity, Inverness-shire)

At St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Cardew Place, Aberdeen on 25th July 1929, by Rev EA Ferguson of St Fernan’s Episcopal Church, Banchory: John, second son of Mr & Mrs Cameron, Lakeview, Errogie, Inverness to Edith, only daur of Mr & Mrs TURNER, Woodbine Cottage, Crathes, Aberdeenshire.

(Living at 62 Maxwell Drive, Inverness, 1944-45) One daur Sheila b. Inverness 25 June 1930, d. 13 Oct 1996.  John Turner, son-in-law, Ellon spoke at Golden Wedding of parenets-in-law celebrations, 9 Dec 1936 at Lakeview

 

3 F    Annie  CAMERON  (Nan)

(mother’s mother’s name)

17 Feb 1894, Dunmaglass (B/1894/095/xx Daviot & Dunlichity)

At the Presbyterian Church, Whalley Range, Manchester, on 12th October 1929, by Revv. Campbell Taylor, M.A.: Robert Dunlop BROWN, M.Inst.CE, son of Mr & Mrs R. W. BROWN, Radnor Park, Glasgow, to Annie, elder daur of Mr & Mrs D Cameron, lakeview, Errogie, Inverness. (living Salisbury House, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, 1944). One son, Douglas, b. 22 Dec 1931, Manchester;

three stephchildren of Nan (from Robert’s first marriage?) Robert, Irene, Christine

 

 

 

4 M   Tavish CAMERON

 

 

22 Sept 1895, Dunmaglass (B/1895/095/xx Daviot & Dunlichity)

Muriel MACKINTOSH

(Living at Mo Dachaidh, Fort Augustus, 1945) 3 Children:  Catherine, Tavish, Muriel.

1973.

5 F     Catherine CAMERON (father’s mother’s name)

22 Dec 1898, Dunmaglass (B/1898/095/xx Daviot & Dunlichity)

1931, Inverness, Donald John MACKINTOSH, gamekeeper, b. July 1904 (living Wester Aberchalder, 1944); one daur Katharine CAMERON, b. 5 Nov 1931, Inverness, m. 25 June 1954, Inverness, Robert Beaton Forsyth WATSON (Bob), b. abt 1930, Uddingston, Lanarkshire (Scots Guards, Unilever, Inverness golf club) ; one son (Birmingham area, Shetland); one daur (deputy head teacher, Rosebank school, Nairn)  Katharine was peripatetic domestic science teacher, Inverness schools, trained 3 years Atholl Cres, E dinburgh. Royal Inverness Academy 1942-48. Left Acad same year Eleanor Swanney started (was there 2 years 1948-1950).   Catherine Cameron (Mackintosh) was Sub-Post Mistress, Errogie, from 1956 to 1976 when was presented with an armchair with special plaque (now in sitting room of daur)

 

6 M   William CAMERON

(mother’s father’s father’s name)

20 Oct 1905, Dunmaglass (B/1905/095/xx Daviot & Dunlichity)

(1) Elizabeth HENDERSON (d. 194?)

(2) Margaret MURRAY (1955)

Two daurs, Elizabeth, Fiona

(Serving in R.A.F., 1945)

1973.

 

 

 

References:

 

Notes: 1. In 1891 Census, (Daviot & Dunlichity parish, ED ?, sch. 18), Duncan & Catherine Cameron were living in (5 windowed apartment) “gamekeeper’s house”, with two eldest sons (11 months & 3 years), domestic servant Annie McKenzie (married; from Loch Broom, Cromarty-shire), boarder Peter Cameron, carpenter, married, from Logie estate, Ross-shire, and Catherine’s father, John Smith, shepherd, aged 61 years, married (to second wife Betsy Fraser, but not living in same household). The entire household, except youngest child John, spoke Gaelic and English. 

 

2. The Hon Mr Justice Douglas Brown was appointed to barristers Kings Chambers, in Bow Lane, Manchester in late 1950s, taking Silk (becoming QC) in 1976, having built up a large civil practice. In 1980 Sir Douglas Brown went on to the Northern Circuit Bench; he was a Judge of the High Court (QBD – Queen’s Bench Division) and formerly the presiding judge of the Northern Circuit. (Source: “Kings Chambers – A Brief History” (Chambers history, May 2008, pdf downloaded 6 Nov 2010).  He retired from his post as a Justice of the High Court on 10 January 2005. He was called to the Bar (Gray’s Inn) in 1953 and elected a bencher of that Inn in 1989. In 1971 he was appointed as Assistant Recorder of Salford City Quarter Sessions. He served as a Recorder from 1972 to 1980.  He was one of the three Appeal Court Judges (with Lord Justice Rix and Mr Justice Davis) who, in 2003, overturned a conviction for the murder of a cinema manager that sent young Liverpool labourer George Kelly to the gallows in March 1953, following what was then the longest criminal trial in Englgish legal history. The three appeal court judges concluded that the original verdict was “unsafe”.

 

3. “It is with regret that I have to report that there was one fatality during the period under review: - Errogie Post Office, Stratherrick: 6.4.55. Mrs. Jessie McTavish (86), lost her life when fire destroyed her home which adjoined the sub-Post Office.  Mrs. McTavish’s daughter – Mrs. Elizabeth Rees – made a very gallant attempt to rescue her mother and was very badly burned about her face and hands.  At the time of writing this report she is still in hospital.” (Northern Area Fire Brigade, Area Headquarters, Fraser Park Fire Station, Kingsmills Road, Inverness, 28th May 1955. Annual Report to the Chairman and Members of the Northern Fire Area Joint Committee, by Firemaster D.M. Macdonald, O.B.E.; www.hifrs.org/CMSTemplates/HIFRS/documentlibrary/………pdf accessed 6 Nov 2010).

 

Updated 6 November 2010 and 21 Dec 2016 by Peter Symon.