Rolly, I posted this under the heading 'armed forces' before I saw your heading. I hope you don't mind me repeating it here.
I'm hoping to find Robert Campbell, born 1729 -30. He was at the battle of Quebec. He became a blacksmith and died at Brampton, Cumberland. The following passages are what I've collected to do with Brampton. My question is how can I find out who my Robert Campbell is? Might he be a son or cousin or such of David Campbell possibly a Keithock Campbell?
From the Carlisle Patriot 10 May 1878 of a lecture in Brampton by the Vicar about Bonnie Prince Charlie (1745). "Another interesting link with that period was old Robert Campbell, the locksmith, still living in Brampton whose father, to use Robert's own words, ""came here with Charlie, and after various other adventures, such as serving under General Wolfe, at Quebec, returned to settle at Brampton, where he died in 1838, aged 109Yrs." (He is on the church records as being a 109yrs old).
The Militar Road in Cumberland, by T. H. Hodgson, these Transactions, n.s. ii, p. 274).At the funeral of the Carlisle victims, it is reported in a letter written by Lieut. Colonel Howard, Governor of Carlisle Castle, that
Mr. Douglas,
Mr. Graham, the apothecary,
Mr. Lowry and
Mr. Campbell of Brampton assisted publicly , the latter as mourner, the other three as pall-bearers (Lord Albemarle's Fifty Years of my Life).
Whether Campbell of Brampton acted the part of mourner over the Capon Tree victims is not known. It is probable that Mr. Campbell himself had come to Brampton with the Prince, for we still have an old lady living here whose grandfather, Robert Campbell, came to Brampton in the "45 " and settled in the place. Why the Capon Tree was chosen or why the prisoners were brought to Brampton for execution cannot now accurately be discovered.
Selections from the family papers of the Mackays of BighouseJohn Campbell of Barcaldine married Margaret (a daughter of Keithock).
Letter Lord Glenorchy to John C of Barcaldine 9th Oct 1745"I'm glad the person in whom you say you are nearly concerned resolves to be quiet"
Letter from Lord Glenorchy to John Campbell of Barcaldine 14th Oct 1746"I've had a letter from Keithock, dated Brampton, complaining of the expense of his long confinement, from which he was discharged, there being nothing against him. I believe a letter which I mentioned to you in one of me letters, helped to hasten it.
Letter from Lord Glenorchy to John Campbell of Barcaldine 3 March 1747I ask'd Colonel Howard (whom you saw with Gen. Bland at Taymouth) who is just come from Carlisle, the truth of what I wrote to you about Kiethock's Imprudence. He told me that he is not acquainted with him, but that he knows he attended every execution in deep mourning, and show'd many marks of his concern and his disapprobaton of their punishment, and that Brigidier (or Major Genl) J P Lemming, who commanded at that time at Carlisle, being informed of his appearing in solemn mourning at the first execution, sent him a private advice (purely out of good nature, being noways acquainted with him) not to do so again, and be more cautious in his expressions, but he still persisted, and behav'd in general very improperly. This is what Col. Howard told me and several particulars too tedious and not fit for a letter. I am really sorry for his folly.
Cumberland Quarter Sessions FILE - 1746 Easter petitions - ref. Q/11/1/234 - date: 1746Petition of John Nicholson, High Constable of Eskdale Ward - payment of expenses for arrest and custody of David Campbell Esq. of Brampton, for treason. Nil.
Lyn from New Zealand
