eNews December 2017

TO AULD SCOTIA

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand! If such there breathe, go, mark him well; CHRISTMAS MESSAGE For him no Minstrel raptures swell; From our Chief, The MacCailein Mor High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; It has been a very busy year in Argyll. We have welcomed yet Despite those titles, power, and pelf, again a record number of visitors to the Castle, including many The wretch, concentred all in self, Campbells from across the globe, which has inspired us to try and Living, shall forfeit fair renown, do better again in 2018. We had a wonderful visit in July from And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, our kinsfolk from North America which culminated with the Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. Inveraray Games. It was the most remarkable day and will be remembered by us all for a very long time. It was one of the only II times we witnessed the sun this summer.! ... O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! There has been a major change in our office at the end of October. Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, After 33 years of service to the family and Estate, Margaret Land of my sires! what mortal hand Mather who many of you will have encountered as my Secretary, Can e'er untie the filial band, retired. Margaret has been the calm and power behind 2 Dukes That knits me to thy rugged strand! and 3 Factors managing the Estate and will be very sadly Still as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, missed. We all wish her well in her retirement. Seems as, to me of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left; We are presently seeking enthusiastic people who would like to And thus I love them better still, have a summer (7 months) job in the Castle for 2018 working as Even in extremity of ill. a guide, in the shop or tearoom. It would be a great opportunity By Yarrow's streams still let me stray, for those seeking and adventure and some experience. Though none should guide my feeble way; Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break, My wife and I would like to take the opportunity of wishing Although it chill my wither'd cheek; Still lay my head by Teviot Stone, you all a happy and prosperous New Year and best wishes for Though there, forgotten and alone, 2018 and look forward to welcoming you to Inveraray. For The Bard may draw his parting groan. those of you who are classic car enthusiasts you can follow one of our -Sir Walter Scott new projects, Argyll Festival of Thanks, Michael Campbell for this ode!) Performance, which will take place on the 2nd/3rd June 2018 at the Castle.

Midyear CCSNA EC and CCEF Meetings REGISTRATION FORM Lynn Haven, Florida

March 9-11, 2018 Name(s): ______

CCSNA has reserved a block of fifteen rooms for Friday and Saturday nights at the Wingate by Wyndham Hotel in Lynn Haven (adjacent to Panama City, FL). Attendees ______are requested to contact the hotel directly at (850) 248-

8080 to reserve a room and provide a credit card for confirmation. The rate will be $107 per night. Advise Contact e-mail: ______them that you are with the Clan Campbell Society to get the group rate.

Contact phone: ______

The tentative schedule has arrivals on Friday, meetings on Saturday and departures on Sunday. If you wish to Registration: $15 per person ______stay for additional nights there are fun things to do in the Panama City area; the Highland Games are the preceding weekend (March 3), but currently we don’t The registration fee offsets a portion of the meeting have any volunteers to set-up and staff a Campbell tent. The Games are small and the attendance last year was room rental fee. light.

The hotel is pet friendly, a breakfast buffet is included in Make checks payable to: the room rate, and they have a nice meeting room. There are several chain restaurants in the vicinity where CLAN CAMPBELL SOCIETY you can get dinner Friday and Saturday evenings. As usual, we are planning to have lunch in the meeting room between the CCSNA and CCEF sessions. The hotel Mail to: has indicated we can bring in lunch from outside, as they don’t do any meals except breakfast. ROBERT ST. JOHN

Please complete the attached registration form and 3704 KANTREL PL. send it along with your check to Rob St. John. Make the VALRICO, FL 33596 check payable to Clan Campbell Society.

If you have questions, please contact Rob either by phone or e-mail.

(813) 300-2059 Cell

(813) 685-4638 Home [email protected] [email protected] saved their money, and sacrificed for family, served their country, and relied on their faith. I write this in remembrance of my dad, Kenneth M. Campbell, my Uncle Marvin Campbell, and their father, my grandfather, Wilfred J. Campbell.

I had an excellent family history to start with. My Uncle Marvin had been CCSNA Commissioner of Michigan for more than two decades and loved history. I had his notes going back to my third great-grandfather, John Campbell (b. Argyll, -d. Canada, 1875), and a published account of my family’s history in Ontario, Canada, under the name of my second great-grandfather, Duncan Campbell, in the book County of Kent, A Biographical History, Published 1901, by J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, Canada. With this resource in hand, I started researching birth, death, census, burial, and immigration records in the United States, Canada, and Scotland.

Knowing that my 3rd great- photo of , courtesy of Michael C. grandfather was Campbell of San Diego, CA John Campbell of Argyll, Scotland, Scotland Tour 2017: My Story but not knowing Story and Watercolor Illustrations which parish or by Pamela Campbell Bickford town he was from, I researched his (Pamela’s full story appears in the next JOURNAL) name on the internet in This past July my husband, Cliff, and I took a trip of a Scotland many lifetime to Scotland with the CCEF Tour. My uncle, Marvin E. times, which led Campbell, inspired me, 40 years ago, to dream the dream of to me to many visiting Scotland, the land of my Campbell ancestors. In1977, sources and many Uncle Marvin and Aunt Dorothy journeyed to Scotland to see interesting articles for himself where our ancestors immigrated from in 1845 to about various Canada, and to meet the 12th . John Campbell’s. I dived down This past summer’s tour covered many of the same multiple “rabbit important sights that he visited such as Campbell Castle, holes”, as I like to , Stirling Castle, Edinburgh, and, of course, our call them, (one of which was the Kilmartin area), before I beloved ! In addition to seeing all of these found some articles where I began to find similar given names amazing sights, and many more, we had the great honor of in similar generations. I searched further, literally stumbling th meeting the 13 Duke and Duchess of Argyll, and their upon the Kilberry connection, I became entranced, and read children, Archie Marquess of Lorn, Lord Rory, and Lady further about the Kilberry Stones at Kilberry Castle in Charlotte! There is much Knapdale, which led me to the Parish of Kilcalmonell and more to be said about this Kilberry. experience, but let me go back first, to the beginning In the Parish records of Kilcalmonell and Kilberry, I of researching my family’s finally found the marriage record of my 3rd great-grandfather story. and great-grandmother, John Campbell and Catherine Crawford, married 10th July 1815. I was then able to search When I was just a these same records for the birth records of their children little girl, my family taught which matched with the records I already had from the me the importance of County of Kent, a Biographical History. family and the Campbell Clan, and the heritage of Now. Back to the CCEF Scotland tour. Our fellow many generations who tour mates and I met Duncan Beaton at the beginning of the worked hard, set goals, tour when we arrived in Inveraray, as he accompanied us on our first day of “site-seeing.” From reading his articles in the John Journal of the Clan Campbell society (North America) we Campbell knew how knowledgeable he was, but were amazed at the was very amount of Campbell Clan history he had in his head! We gracious in were astounded as he told story after story, and answered telling me countless questions with such a great sense of humor and gift how to find of storytelling! To my great surprise and delight, on the next the border (a to last day of the planned tour when we were divided into burn or small smaller buses, and Duncan surprised me with the names of stream) my possible 4th great-grandfather and grandmother! between the current The last day of the Tour we gathered at the church at the Campbell of th center of the town of Inveraray to march behind the 13 Kilberry Duke of Argyll and his family, being piped in parade by, the owned lands now World Champion Inveraray Pipe Band, to the castle and the grounds for the Inveraray Highland Games! I cannot tell you Ormsary what a thrill this was, one 40 years in the making for me! A lands at day my husband and I will never forget! Crear which are now Following the tour we headed for Kilberry. Village and owned by Kilberry Castle. Turning left onto a gravel drive we first came the Lithgow upon The Kilberry Stones which are on display under an open- Estate. He also told us how to find the Kilberry Church I air shelter. Kilberry has been a site of Christian worship since th th showed him the watercolor painting that I did of an early 20 the early 14 Century photo of Kilberry Castle that I had found on line, and Century, as asked him about the couple standing in front of the castle. To evidenced by the our astonishment, John said it was his great aunt and uncle, stones, which were the mother and father of Miss Marion Campbell (who I had once housed in the read about in my research). He showed me the original Campbell photo from a family album…more serendipitous blessings! Mausoleum next to What a magnificent place to live with pastures for cattle and the remains of the sheep, salt water beaches, mountain views on the islands church’s across the Sound of Jura, and delightful burns. All my favorite foundation at places to be in God’s creation! Continuing north we came Kilberry Castle. across the They are now cascading burn maintained by that John Historic Scotland. maintained by Historic Scotland. Campbell of Kilberry had We drove on down the drive to the castle, gathered described as up my watercolor sketch book of our Scotland trip, and had the boundary the joy of meeting John Campbell, Laird of Kilberry Castle! I between his told him of my quest to see the lands where my Campbell estate and the family were born, married, and had worked before one in Crear… immigrating to Canada. I explained PLEASE READ the research help that PAMELA Duncan and the CAMPBELL Friends of the Argyll BICKFORD’s Papers were providing, fuller account and that I had met the of her Duke of Argyll at the adventures Inveraray Games the with CCEF and day before. Yes, I in her own know, some shameless odyssey to the name dropping, but home area of this was a once in a her family, The Campbells of Kilberry in the Winter JOURNAL. lifetime opportunity, right? (I thought we should do some of Pamela’s notebook pictures in color here! -Editor) “What is Worn under the Kilt?”

“Nothing is worn, Madam. I assure you everything is in good working order!”

The answer is assumed to be nothing is worn under the kilt, but yet while sometimes interpreted literally it is based on a misunderstanding. The plaid (the multi- purpose garment worn before the “kilt” was invented) was not something the early Scots wore instead of trousers, but an outer garment, a cloak or overcoat— and under it they did indeed wear nothing, or rather A Serious GOLF TOURNAMENT (usually) they wore no breeches but instead wandered “It was a distinct pleasure to photograph the about dressed in just their (long) shirts. This was of unforgettable First Annual Giordano - Silvi Long Drive course why the slightly scandalized Army put the Contest at The Union League Torresdale Golf Highlanders into kilts in the first place—in order to Club. Tears of laughter made it hard to keep shooting.” preserve a proper soldierly appearance. Ironically, the –Peter Blaikie wheel eventually turned full circle: when Highland soldiers in South Africa during WWI were relaxing, Clan Campbell Society Member Frank Giordano (in whether during a halt on the march or taking part in Campbell sports days, they were prone to taking off the heavy tartan) with woolen kilt and just wandering around in shirt tails and past CCSNA khaki drawers. – Stuart Reid, SCOTTISH NATIONAL and CCEF DRESS AND TARTAN (2013) p. 54 President (One of the participants in the recent Long Drive Edward V. competition told me that lifting the kilt of one con- Cattell (in St. tender revealed pink silk grannie bloomers. –Ed.) Andrew’s Society tartan) Neil Munro’s THE NEW ROAD available as his “for the last time” gillie/caddie, Fr. Guido Scarducci as his chaplain, and the St. Andrew’s Society piper Doc Frank Watson all Although it was believed that hammed it up as “Sledgehammer” Giordano took on “little Silvi.” The joke is that Frank G. has just begun to CCEF no longer had copes of play golf last this book, and it is removed year while Gary from the list of items in the Silvi has been JOURNAL, a final box has been playing for 30 years—and Silvi discovered, and the paperback still had to books are available for a limited cheat to win time from CCEF at $12.95 (includes postage.) (by 6 yards) Make checks to CCEF and send to Alan Stedman, using a bionic arm apparatus CCEF Treasurer, 437 Hopkins Lane, Haddonfield, NJ hidden in his 08033-1127. At the request of His Grace the Duke of sleeve! [F.G. is Argyll, the CCEF provided financial support for the re- president and publication of the Scottish classic, THE NEW ROAD, an anti- CEO of the Jacobite whodunit as exciting as the famous KIDNAPPED by Philly Pops Robert Louis Stevenson. Neil Munro (1863-1930) was a Orchestra.] novelist, journalist, and poet who lived in Inveraray and became one of Scotland’s leading writers. His mother was a kitchen maid, but his father was, mysteriously, “a member of confirmed Scottish-born parent or grandparent, and the House of Argyll.” He was brought up in the household of for readers with no Scottish his Gaelic-speaking maternal grandmother and in his fiction connection Brilliant! includes thousands of non- renders in English the cadences and turns of phrase of the Scottish pioneers from around the world who also Gaelic tongue. contributed to the development of the landmark The reprinted book will attract many readers with its achievements noted in this book. With more than vivid pictures of a long-vanished Scotland and the 2,500 references, Brilliant! has been carefully adventures of the young, handsome and well-educated researched over many years and provides a one-stop Aeneas (Angus) Macmaster, cheated of his birthright resource of Scottish achievements that positively and searching for the truth about his father’s death. impacted life in Britain, the United States of Aeneas is accompanied on his odyssey in 1719 through America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the rebellious Highlands by Ninian MacGregor Asia, Africa, and Latin America. This book is Campbell, a spy for the 2nd duke of Argyll and his available from the publishers, Austin Macauley, as brother, Lord Islay. It was the intention of the group well as Amazon, Waterstones, Book Depository, who have re-published this book that a copy be placed Booktopia, and other physical and internet book in every school in Scotland, Also, creating an eBook with stores. –Andy Paterson a free download was part of the project. There is a glossary of more than 500 terms translated from the PLEASE JOIN THE CLAN CAMPBELL SOCIETY (NORTH Gaelic and a map to appreciate the difficulty of travel in AMERICA) THIS YEAR—or RENEW NOW!. the roadless Highlands of Scotland before it was opened by General Wade’s “New Road.” A reminder: In April the CCSNA Executive Council decided to raise the annual dues for CCSNA Brilliant! membership from $25 to $30, effective January 1, 2018. This represents the first increase in dues for more If you have a passion for, than 30 years, while production costs for the JOURNAL or just a passing interest (and everything else!) have increased. Additional funds in, the achievements of might allow us to produce a better JOURNAL with color Scots, this book may be pages augment the services we already provide. for you! Published on 31 Help us 1) to ensure a Campbell presence at the August 2017 by Austin Scottish games near you and 2) enjoy a 10% discount on Macauley, membership in the National Trust for Scotland Brilliant! Scottish membership. 3) You receive four 60-page JOURNALS filled with Campbell history and other articles, 4) the Inventors, Innovators, services of a professional genealogist, and 5) the Scientists and Engineers Who Changed the World opportunity to travel with CCEF on memorable trips to concisely details the accomplis-ments of 867 Scots Scotland with 6) a chance to visit Inveraray Castle free and their thousands of inventions, innovations, of charge and meet our chief,The Mac Cailein Mor, and scientific discoveries and engineering feats. his family at the famous Inverary Games. Covering more than 50 fields of endeavour - The next CCEF trip to Campbell Country and Scotland is including electronics, medicine, health, biology, planned for July, 2020. Membership forms available computing, robotics, banking, aeronautics, physics, from the Web site CCSNA.org construction, architecture, entertainment, sport, and lots, lots more - this book is definitely not just a INCENTIVE: If you join or renew before mere jingoistic tea towel list. The 867 headlined January 1, 2018, you may still pay $25. names were all born in Scotland or have a marker consists of four arms and eight points, each point being decorated with a gold head. The source of the cross is the ancient chivalric Order of St. Louis. The cross is connected with a circular

laurel wreath, a Napoleonic symbol recognizing faithful Greetings from Inveraray Castle! service and merit. The year 1775 is inscribed at the base - the year the “shot heard round the world” was fired at We are currently looking at recruiting staff for our 2018 Lexington Green, Massachusetts. season. We need people who can commit to working th for the whole season which starts on the 30 March this Colonel William Grayson Chapter President and CCSNA year due an early Easter through to the Castle closing member Mike Taimi presented the biography of James st 31 October. We are in a position to offer accommo- Campbell – his fifth great grandfather. James Campbell dation close by to the Castle for a nominal rent and we was born about 1745 in Scotland. He came to America, would be looking for people who would like to work in initially settling in Somerset County, Maryland where he either the Castle Tearoom, Giftshop, or as a Castle was recruited to serve in the Continental Army from Guide. Anyone who might be interested please July 30, 1781 to December 10, 1781. His rendered contact Jane Young, Inveraray Castle Manager, at service to the cause of American Independence [email protected] (www.inveraray- establishes that James Campbell was a Patriot of the castle.com Office: +44 (0) 1499302551) Please attach American Revolution. His story will be told more fully an up to-date CV. in the spring 2018 JOURNAL.

Revolutionary War Soldier James Campbell of Alexandria, VA honored by the S.A.R.

More than two hundred years have passed since the Revolutionary War Patriots were successful in their fight for independence from Great Britain. The Sons of the American Revolution is an organization whose members carry out patriotic, historical and educational activities to perpetuate the memory and sacrifices of their ancestors who fought or aided in the American Revolution. One ongoing program is to locate and mark the final resting place of those who participated in the His tombstone, reads "In Memory of Captain James struggle for freedom. Campbell, a native of Scotland who departed this life March 18, 1821 in the 76th year of his age." His Revolutionary War Patriot and former Alexandrian obituary which appeared in the Alexandrian on March citizen, James Campbell was honored at a recent 20, 1821 referred to James Campbell as "a long and service with a grave marking by the Colonel William respected citizen of this place". That, he was—and, Grayson Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution. The now his legacy includes that he was a Patriot of the grave stone was marked with a distinctive bronze American Revolutionary War. marker which depicts the familiar Continental soldier with his musket, ready to defend his country. The