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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Latest portrait: Who is the sitter?
« on: Wednesday 17 March 21 02:44 GMT (UK)  »
This is a great portrait and a great find - congratulations to the buyer!  I don't have the answer to the sitter's origin, only a clue - might he be the naval Captain Colin Campbell referred to in the following obituary of Captain Robert Campbell of the Bombay Army, published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, February 1821 (vol. 8, p. 601)?  This Colin Campbell is NOT the Rear-Admiral Colin Campbell of Ardpatrick mentioned earlier in this thread; Rear-Admiral Colin was of the well-documented and wealthy Shawfield Campbells. The sitter is also emphatically NOT Field-Marshall Colin Campbell, later Lord Clyde, with whom the auctioneers seem to have him confused.  If the sitter is the brother of Captain Robert of the Bombay Army, his origins remain obscure.  There's nothing in the public records of either Robert or the other surviving brother, Major John Campbell, indicating their parentage.

Major John Campbell settled as a planter in Jamaica (owning estates at Belgar and Lucky Hill in the parish of St Thomas in the Vale), following his war injuries.  He appoints his brother, Captain Colin Campbell of the Royal Navy, as one of his executors in a will made in 1832.  Major John (promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in his retirement) dies in 1835; his will is among the PCC wills available on ancestry.

I'd be delighted if any of this rings any bells which could point of the parentage of this "band of brothers". 

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Europe / Re: Bagni de Lucca (John Martin Hanchett)
« on: Monday 15 February 21 01:13 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Deanne  - I have just come across the fascinating Captain Hanchett and am looking forward to reading your book once it's published. Before then, I was hoping you wouldn't mind sharing what you know of the Captain's second wife, Anna Stuart.  In their marriage record, she is described as a widow and the daughter of a Jonathan McGhie or M'Ghie.  I'm very interested in the McGhie family, and - if Jonathan is who I think he is - I believe Anna may be the first cousin of one of the Captain's colleague in the Preventive Service, Captain James McGhie R.N., who was stationed in his latter years at Langton Herring, Dorset. I haven't found any records of Anna's marriage to a Mr Stuart, or of Mr Stuart's or Anna's death.  Again, if she is who I suspect, she was born in Canongate parish, Edinburgh on 6 Aug 1793 to Jonathan McGhie, West India Trader, and his spouse Isobel McLauchlan.    I have developed a fair amount of information on this particular McGhie family which may be of interest to you.  However, without more information my suggestions as to her identity are speculative, and from your research into Cap. Hanchett, you may have developed a more accurate identity for Anna.

I look forward to hearing from you. 

Malcolm

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