Andrew Donaldson Campbell

1777 - 1854

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Merchant of Glasgow and mortgagee-in-possession of slave-property.

  1. James Campbell, sadler, and Marion Muirhead, [baptised] a lawful son Andrew Donaldson, witnesses Ninian Hill and Robert Muirhead, 03/05/1777 in Glasgow. Andrew Donaldson Campbell, merchant in Glasgow, and Janet Maria Dunlop, lawful daughter of Colonel James Dunlop of Househill, Abbey parish Paisley, were married 03/02/1817 by Dr Wm Routledge, Episcopal Minister in Glasgow.

  2. Dissolution of Robert Muirheid & Co. Glasgow when John Macmurrich ceased to be a partner: carried on by Robert Muirheid, Andrew Donaldson Campbell and John Binnie (1817). 

  3. Of Ashcraig from at least 1838 when he spoke at a meeting of the Directors of the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway.

  4. 1851 Scotland census Andrew Donaldson Campbell aged 50 [sic] 'House proprietor and annuitant' living at Ash Craig with wife Maria J. M. Campbell aged 50 [sic]. In the 1841 census the couple were shown as having been 60 years old, implying that the 1851 census transcription or the underlying data concerning their ages was incorrect.  

  5. William Watson's 'Life in the Confederate Army' (1887) shows Watson born 1826 at Skelmorlie 25 miles west of Glasgow, after his English father came to Skelmorlie in 1820 to lay out the grounds of Ash Craig, the estate of Andrew Donaldson Campbell 'a former West Indian sugar planter'.  

  6. A letter from A. Donaldson Campbell in Pau, France, written 17/02/1843 to Sir George Clerk, describing his experiences in Grenada during the rebellion in 1795, is held at the National Records of Scotland.

  7. The trust deposition of Robert Muirheid of Croy Leckie [Croyleckie], merchant in Glasgow, names Andrew Donaldson Campbell, merchant in Glasgow, as his nephew and Lilias Dunlop as his wife.


Sources

  1. GROS OPR Births 644/1 160 317; GROS Marriages 644/1 280 340 Glasgow.

  2. London Gazette, Issue 17231, 15/03/1817, p. 665.

  3. Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser 28/12/1838.

  4. 1851 census online.

  5. http://www.allan-mitchell.org.uk/watson.htm [accessed 30/09/2010].

  6. NRS GD18/3532, Papers of the Clerk family of Penicuik, Midlothian.

  7. Glasgow Sheriff Court Wills SC36/51/7.

We are grateful to Jim Brennan for his assistance with compiling this entry.


Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Name in compensation records
Andrew Donald. Campbell
Spouse
Janet Maria Dunlop
Occupation
Merchant

Associated Claims (1)

£3,883 6s 11d
Awardee (Mortgagee-in-possession)

Legacies Summary

Commercial (2)

Railway Investment
Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock [183724]  
£2500 
Partner
Robert Muirheid & Co.
General overseas merchant?  
 

Physical (1)

Estate
Ashcraig [Built] 
description →
House and garden at Ashcraig, Skelmorlie, Ayrshire, built by Andrew Donaldson Campbell...
notes →
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FROM THE HEART: CHATELHERAULT AND TEACKLE MANSION GARDEN Author(s): BARBARA PACA, Garden History, Vol. 38, No. 1 (SUMMER 2010), pp....

Addresses (1)

Ashcraig, Ayrshire, Southern Scotland, Scotland