I have recently happened evidence relating to these three brothers but have yet to locate anything which proves either their father’s identity or the stirpes to which they belonged, which is both intriguing and annoying in equal measure. I will return to them at a later date to seek to answer those questions. In the meantime, should you know of anything useful to those ends, please do get in touch.
1 Alexander Campbell. He settled at Rosehill, in Trelawny parish, Jamaica, and married there to Elizabeth Buchanan, who is described in the baptismal entries for heir daughters Sarah and Isabella as “a free person of colour.” They returned to Scotland and purchased the lands of Greenfield, in Ayrshire. Alexander died there on 22 March 1825 (see NRS SC6/44/2/4-17) having drawn up his Will on 29 March 1819. By its terms he made bequests to his daughters, then to his niece Isabella Campbell, daughter of his brother John Campbell, shipmaster at Greenock, and also to his two nephews, Alexander Campbell and Humphrey Walter Campbell. He left four daughters,
1a} Susanna Campbell, married on 19 October 1807, to Richard Reid, writer in Irvine.
1a} Margaret Campbell, married on 16 April 1808, to Mr. Andrew Haldane, minister of Dreghorn.
1a} Sarah Campbell, born in Jamaica on 18 August 1791 and married at Irvine, 18 December 1814, to Alexander Irvine, sheriff of Buteshire.
1a} Isabella Campbell, born at Jamaica on 6 August 1797 and died unmarried.
2. Neil Campbell of Barnhill, was sheriff substitute of Dumbartonshire and married Margaret, daughter and coheiress of Humphrey Colquhoun of Barnhill, by whom he had with other issue:
2a} Alexander Campbell of Barnhill, born on 4 May 1776 and died on 2 October 1862, having married and had issue.
2a} Humphrey Walter Campbell of Corslet, born on 4 March 1782 and died on 15 May 1864.
2a} Elizabeth Anstruther Campbell, married Robert Mackenzie of Caldarvan
3 John Campbell, is styled shipmaster at Greenock in his brother Alexander’s Will in 1819 and appears to have dead by that time. He was father of,
3a} Isabell Campbell, who was a legatee of her uncle, Alexander Campbell of Greenfield’s Will.