The knowledge I started out with, remembered from my mother, is
(1) that her family is descended from the Camerons of Erracht;
(2) that her childhood is somehow connected to a small place called Kilbarchan, in Scotland; and
(3) that she had an Aunt Grace who lived in Scotland.
Indeed I remember meeting ‘Auntie Gracie’ when I was young. I knew my maternal grandparents. Grandad Cameron picked up a nasty foot infection, thought to be from the beach at Bridlington or Scarborough, and had to have a foot amputated. Due to gangrene, several other amputations followed on the same leg, but he died when I was seven years old. Grandma Cameron died when I was twelve.
My mother’s birth certificate, in my possession, gives her parents’ names and mother’s maiden surname, Ferguson, and their date and place of marriage.
The headstone in the cemetary at Lawnswood, Leeds implies a birth year for both of my grandparents of 1870.
The marriage record of Duncan Cameron and Margaret McCrone Ferguson on 25th December 1897 gives their ages as 27, confirming 1870 as the birth year. The marriage took place at 18 Walkinshaw Street, Johnstone, which was noted as the residence of Margaret. The names of the parents of each are given in the record, and those of Duncan are John Cameron (Hand Loom Weaver: deceased) and Elizabeth Cameron, maiden surname Murphy.
The birth record of Duncan indicates a birth date of 16th February 1870, at Kilbarchan, and notes the parents to be John Cameron and Elizabeth Cameron (maiden surname Murphy) of Steeple Street, and that their marriage took place on 16th April 1852 at Kilbarchan
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