Memorials of four old families

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On hearing of his brother's death, he came home from India, where his
regiment was then quartered, and had the right to be consulted by the Kil-
martin Trustees as to what land should be purchased with the balance
remaining after all claims were met out of the price of the family estate in
Argyleshire.
The beautiful property of Blackhall, on the Dee in Kincardineshire, or
rather a portion of it, was selected, and purchased in or about 1829, and the
lands entailed. The great attraction was the salmon fishing.
The Colonel sometimes resided there, and sometimes let the place
until his death, which took place there suddenly in 1856. He was buried
in the Churchyard at Strachan, Kincardineshire ; and was succeeded by his
nephew.
COLIN, b. 14th June, 1828, was the 2nd and only surviving son of
John's brother, Alexander. He married, 14th Sept., 1856, his cousin, Helen
Charlotte, daughter of his uncle, Major Neil Campbell, and had one son>
Alexander Douglas, b. 15th Jan., 1858.
His father, Alexander Campbell, 4th son of Colin Mor of Kilmartin,
studied medicine, but during the Peninsular War got a Commission in the
77th Regiment when above the usual age, and was still a Lieutenant at the
end of 1814. He married, about 1820, Catharine M'Dougall, of the
M'Dougalls of Raray. They went to reside at Kilchoan, on Loch Melfort,
near where Melfort Cottage now stands ; but after the death of his brother
Dugald, they removed to Kilmartin House during the absence of his elder
brother, John, in India : there Colin their son was born.
His mother, Catharine M'Dougall, was the daughter of John M'Dougall
of Craiganerick, in the Island of Lismore, who married Mary, daughter of
Kenneth Maclachlan of Dunad, by whom he had 4 sons and 5 daughters,
viz.: —
1. Coll, Captain 42nd Highlanders, married and left a son, John, and a
daughter : he retired in consequence of a wound, which ulti-
mately caused his death.
2. Kenneth, also an officer 42nd Highlanders : he was wounded in the
foot at the Battle of Nivelle, 1813, and died from the effects in
1827 in the Isle of Skye, unmarried.
3. Allan, Lieutenant in the 38th Regiment, died at the age of 22,
unmarried.
4. Robert, Ensign 71st Regiment: died from an attack of measles
soon after entering Paris in 181 5, aged about 19.
Daughters —
1. Marjory, died aged about 18.