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From: PHHGENE <>
Subject: Daniel Campbell of Shawfield
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 13:08:51 EST

Daniel Campbell of Shawfield and Islay (that is Isle of Islay pron "EYE-la")
is well known and was a son of Campbell of Skipness who was sent to Boston for
training as a merchant and then set up in Glasgow where he was highly
successful, although his handsome Adams style house was burned in a bread riot
and he bought Islay from the Cawdor Campbells.

Walter may have been his father or grandfather and had two wives and I don't
know which was Daniel's mother. Walter was alive in 1659 and Daniel's elder
brother Angus of Skipness was living in 1703. Their younger brother John, Lord
provost (Mayor) of Edinburgh died in 1739 aged 75, so it looks as though
Walter may well have been their father.

Matthew Campbell was Captain of Skipness 1633 and so may have been Walter's
father - he married one of the Campbells of Kilberry, a cadet of Auchinbreck
whose pedigree appears in Burke's baronetage and Peerage in the larger
libraries. The Campbells of Kilberry are listed in Burke's Landed Gentry (I
think 1972 edition).

Matthew's father was Walter, Captain of Skipness who married Mary Campbell and
his parents were Donald Campbell, a younger son of the Ardentinny family
(cadets of the Campbells of Ardkinglas) and either an heiress grand-daughter
or daughter of Archibald Campbell of Skipness who had received a charter of
Skipness lands and castle in 1511 from his father Archibald 2nd Earl of Argyll
who was killed at Flodden Field in 1513.

My source for this is the Scots Peerage (Argyll) and the DAY Book of Daniel
Campbell of Shawfield, Aberdeen Univ press.

I hope this is some help. All best, Diarmid

This I received in June of 1997. Pat

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