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78 THE CELTIC MAGAZINE.
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ANSWERS.
CAITHNESS CAMPBELLS.
In reply to the query of " Mag." in the October number of the Celtic \
Magazine, I have pleasure in supplying the following information : — ;
William Campbell, Heritable Sheriff Clerk of Caithness, "was of the Mac-
Iver branch of the clan, and was the eldest son of Donald Campbell or
Mad vor, merchant in Thurso. William was baptised 25th October 1647.
He had two sisters and two brothers, the younger of the latter being John,
baptised 10th April 1672, who received the appointment of Commissary
of Caithness, and became proprietor of CastlehiU. WiUiam was twice
married, first to Elizabeth, daughter of James Murray of Pennyland, who
bore him one son, Donald, writer in Thurso, who left no issue ; and se-
cond, to Helen Mowatt, by whom he had six sons, the eldest being James,
baptised 6th November 1685, who succeeded his father as Heritable
Sheriff-Clerk of Caithness, and who acquired the estate of Lochend, in
Dunnett. He was twice married, first to ]\Iary Sinclair of Forss, without
issue, and next to Isabella, daughter of the Rev. James Oswald, minister ,
of Watten, of the Auchincruive and Scotstown family. James' son, Wil- ;
liam of Lochend, was served heir to his father 16th June 1768, but died '
without issue, and was succeeded by his brother Oswald, served heir 15th !
March 1770, but who died without issue in 1776, and was succeeded by |
Alexander Campbell, son of Alexander, whose father was William, second i
son of William, first Sheriff- Clerk. He sold Lochend in 1778 to Sinclair {
of Freswick, and as he left no issue it is believed the male line of the j
family of Donald, father of the Sheriff-Clerk, became extinct. The family I
are considered to have been cadets of the Quoycrook and Duchernan Mac-
Ivers, of whom the Chief was the late Principal Campbell of Aberdeen, i
They were known sometimes, patronymically as the Maclvers buy. Other |
families in Caithness were those of Dorary, Brubster, Thurso (younger !
family), Braalbyne, Shurary, Braehour, Liurary, all connected with the j
Quoycrook family. Some other families are believed to descend from the !
Maclver Campbells of Leckmelme in Lochbroom, a family which was long |
at the head of the Macivers in Eoss-shire, and which ceased to be a landed ;
family towards the close of the 17th century. The last of the family in .;
possession was Murdoch Maclver, served heir to Donald Roy, his father, i
on 22d December 1663. This Murdoch is alleged to have had a son, I
Evander, who went to Thurso about 1680, and settled there in trade. |
Other members of the family are understood to have preceded him, but |
there are descendants of the family in the Aird, KUmorack, and Contin. ;
The writer is a descendant of Donald Roy, by his son Alexander (Alisdair ;
Mac Conuil Roy), who fought at Worcester, and who subsequently set- i
tied in the Aird, where he has stiU descendants, and who will be heads '
of the family of Leckmelme failing direct descendants of Evander of Ij
Thurso. t
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