CAMPBELL

The name Campbell was first used by a Strathclyde-Briton family from the Scottish/English Borderlands. It was a name for a person with a crooked mouth, or crooked smile. This nickname surname is derived from the Gaelic words cam and beul, meaning crooked and mouth. Nicknames could be derived from various sources. In general, they came from the physical characteristics, behavior, mannerisms and other attributes of the bearer.

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CLEMENTINA CAMPBELL ( - 1930)

Clementina Campbell was one of my maternal great grandmothers. This page captures what I have been able to find out about her family line to date.

According to her marriage record her father was George Campbell. Clementina was at one time a seamstress and married Samuel Evans in 1892 in Adnagrass Village in St. Ann, Jamaica at age 23. There is some discrepany regarding when Clementina's year of birth. As per her marriage registration she would have been born 1869 but her death record she was born 1883. I have yet to confirm when and where she was born.

Tracing Clementina's family line has been a challenge. Clementina and Samuel had their children in Adnagrass. They are listed on the EVANS page. Clementina’s father George Campbell also had a daughter Alberta Campbell (1872-1927) who married John Edward Brown. I believe her to be a full sister to Clementina.

Records indicate the following women are half siblings to Clementina and Albertha:

Angelina Fearon (1873-1972) married Henry Grant
Catherine Fearon (1882-1967) married Levi Christie
Isabella Fearon (1860-1965) married Angus Whitehorne

More on the FEARONs here.

So who is Clementina's mother? The search continues!

Lily aLBERTHA CAMPBELL (1868-1927)

I believe that my great grandmother's sister Albertha was possibly "Lily Albertha" Campbell of Woods Town, Saint Ann who was born March 13, 1868 as the name "Lily Albertha" was passed down in the family. Albertha was baptised September 20, 1868 in Trelawny by Rev. E. A. Stewart, brother to my paternal great great grandfather, W. H. N. Stewart.

Albertha married widower John Edward Brown a carpenter on 23 Feb 1911 at age 43 however, her marriage registration shows her as 39 years old. These discrepancies are not unusual among the Jamaican vital records of the time. Albertha died on December 11, 1927 in Adnagrass, Saint Ann in the presence of her sister Angelina Grant nee Fearon.

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