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- http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1764-00/Campbell.htm
Earlier in the year in which Campbell was to take his leave of Nova Scotia, 1773, Sarah Campbell was to give birth to a son. This event caused Campbell to write the home authority asking permission to grant 400 acres to his new born son "as a kind Mementory information to him, thereafter, that he drew his first breath in this province." (As quoted by Brebner in The Neutral Yankees, p. 204.)
Melinda Rockwell (melinda_rockwell@coralwave.com) is researching this line. She writes as follows:
The grandson of the 4th Duke of Argyll, son of Lord William and Lady Sarah Campbell, William Conway Campbell was my 5th great grandfather, I have just uncovered that he was declared a lunatic in 1819 by his first cousin the 6th Duke of Argyll, the future 7th Duke of Argyll, his brother in law Sir Alexander Johnston and his sister Louisa. He left his wife, daughter and property in South Carolina and in 1813 went back to London. He was raised at Park Place Remenham with Lady Ailesbury his aunt. Horace Walpole was there each weekend. My documents show the english family hired a power of attorney to sell the Campbell land in South Carolina and Catherine the daughter of the lunatic inherited some land held for her by her step father (from her father William Campbell).
Originally I was looking for proof of the middle name or that he had a daughter- now I see through ancestry.com that he died in Wandsworth, where there is an institution for paupers. A Lord Seymour is the head of the area mental health and he would have been a cousin. I also see that there are many many entries of William Conway Campbell in Times London from 1788 on. He is buried i understand at St. Mary's Paddington, but the rector has never responded to my email, perhaps I have the wrong address.
I have a copy of the death certificate from Oct. 1856, when he died at Clapham Retreat Asylum Wandsworth. No mention that he had a daughter in South Carolina, though I have seen "left no male issue" written. So far, no English peerage has indicated a marriage, or a child of a union of William Conway Campbell.
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1773 - 1856 (83 years)
