Campbell of Glenorchy and Breadalbane

[CR Campbell]

The Campbells of Glenorchy have been found to be one of those melting pot families that make up Clan Campbell. What that means is that they have been found to not be recently related to the Clan chiefly line (aka Argyll) and it’s descendants despite what the clan genealogies have claimed. The Campbells of Glenorchy are supposed to have descended from Colin Campbell 1st of Glenorchy, a son of Lord Duncan Na-Ahd. The haplogroup expectation for such a relationship would be R-BY58693 because we have kits from descendants of Dougall Mor of Dunstaffnage and Lord Duncan Na-Adh (Auchinbreck) that have both tested as such. Glenorchy does not have that mutation and cannot be descended from the same. In fact they are found to be downstream of R-S744 and downstream which is in a completely different branch of the Y DNA haplotree. In this regard they join the Campbells of Duntroon (R-L513) and the Campbells of Succoth (R-M222 est).

Expected haplogroup: R-Y33315

See: University of Strathclyde – Glasgow announcement

See Trees for more details.

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