Duncan Fitztempest Cameron

Other Events:

• Immigration ship: Boyne
• Immigration: 1 Sep 1838

Notes:

Teacher, son of Donald Cameron, farmer. He migrated per "Boyne" from Cromarty 1 Sep 1838, arriving Sydney 2 Jan 1839, "aged 30". Under his care were his sister Mrs Mary McLennan, widow, b. ca 1810, of Kilmallie, dau. of Margery Cameron and her daughter Cathrine McLennan, b. 1832. All went to Beckham & Whitting, Woolar. Duncan Fitztempest Cameron was a teacher in Sydney for some time and as tutor in Goulburn district. He was probably author of Cameron History, 1888 (then of "Woodlands", Bimbi, near Grenfell). Correspondence in the Goulburn Herald in 1857 (about a feud with a neighbour) places him at Ruffy's Flat. He was also there 1865 when he gifted stock to his (great) nieces Sarah and Mary Ann Murray. He was unmarried

Immigration:
migrated per "Boyne" from Cromarty 1 Sep 1838

Died:
Died "aged 84" at the home of his niece, Mrs A McCallum

Other Events:

• Ancestor of Line: [James4] JAMES CAMERON of ARDNAMURCHAN per ST GEORGE

Notes:

said by his son Duncan to be a descendant of the Camerons or Macgillonies of Strone.

Early contributors to this family (omitted on transfer online) include Esma Robarts, Heather Barber, Lesley Roberts, Alma Walker, Judy Fraser-Byass, Gordon Thompson, Dianne Newman, Catherine Payne, Max Matthews and Paul Cameron

Donald married Margery Cameron. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]