House of Argyll and the collateral branches of the clan Campbell, from the year 420 to the present time

YOUNGER BRANCHES. 205
William, of Tullichewan, who married Margaret, daughter of
Arch. Koxburgh, Esq., and died 2nd April, 1864, leaving issue.
The father of Sir James Campbell and the late William
Campbell was farmer at Inchanoch, Port of Menteith, and
lived there, as his ancestors had done for four generations,
under the name of MacOran. The family tradition is that, about
the year 1660, a young Campbell of Melford, who had killed
a man in a duel and was outlawed in consequence, came in
disguise to Menteith, and was received into the service of the
Earl of Menteith. Before long he rose to have principal charge
in the Earl's household. It was believed that from the first
the Earl was aware who the stranger was. He married
a niece of the Earl's, Miss Haldane, daughter of Haldane of
Landrick Castle, and settled on the farm of Inchanoch, belong-
ing to the Earl of Menteith. He and his descendants bore
the name of MacOran. So, at least, the name was spelt latterly.
Probably it was a contraction of MacCoirdhuinne, as the
name was understood to mean, Son of an honest man.
There was a saying in Menteith that "there never was
a Campbell in Inchanoch, nor ever a MacOran out of it."
In accordance with the belief that MacOran was only
an assumed name, any members of the family who left
the district of Menteith dropped the name MacOran and
took Campbell. When Sir James Campbell's father, James
MacOran, removed from Inchanoch to Glasgow in 1805 he
took the name Campbell, although he and his children had
all been registered at Port of Menteith as MacOrans.
Mr. William Campbell was a great supporter of the Free
Church movement, and an intimate friend of Dr. Chalmers,
who was in the habit of consulting him in reference to that
movement. His son,
James Campbell, Esq., of Tullichewan, Co. Dumbarton, J.P.,
was born 31st March, 1823; married 1846, Janet, daughter of
James Black, Esq., of Cross Arthurlie, Co. Eenfrew, and has
issue.
Mr. William Campbell had other sons, viz., Archibald, who
married Grace Victoria, daughter of W. Gibson, Esq., W.S.,
and died 1860, leaving issue; William, who married Hannah,
daughter of Matthew Pearce, Esq., and has issue; and John,
who died unmarried; and had daughters, Elizabeth, married
to James Mackenzie, Esq. of Auchinreglish, who has issue;
and Helen, married to Edward Sharman, Esq., who has issue.