Donald Charles Cameron

Awarded the compensation under five awards in British Guiana in conjunction with John Cameron. Identified by David Alston as the Donald Charles Cameron (1781-1848) who returned to Scotland in 1822 and bought Barcaldine in 1842.

1. Barcaldine in Queensland is named after the Barcaldine in Argyll. Donald Charles Cameron (1814-1872) who named Barcaldine in Queensland was the son of John Cameron, the older brother of the Donald Charles Cameron of this entry, and his wife Isabella Kennedy. Donald Charles Cameron (1814-1872) had moved to Australia from British Guiana in 1852; his son John Cameron (1847-1914) has an entry in the Australian DNB, as does his grandson Sir Donald Charles Cameron (1879-1960). Sir Donald Charles Cameron, colonial Governor, born in 1872, the son of Donald Charles Cameron, 'a sugar planter of Plantation Blankenberg' and Mary Emily nee Brassington, was also certainly connected with the Donald Charles Cameron of this entry, but just how is unclear.

2. The will of Donald Charles Cameron of [Foxhall] Kirkliston, Linlithgow, West Lothian [and of Barcaldine] proved 08/11/1849. He left his estate in trust to fund an annuity of £200 p.a. to his wife Elizabeth Fraser Mathison over and above the provision under their 1817 marriage settlement, and annuities of £30 p.a. to two sisters and £600 lump sums to two other sisters. He left £10,000 each to his three younger sons at 21, and instructed that a further £10,000 each be invested for two of his daughters, given that he had provided £10,000 to their sister on her marriage with 'Mr Campbell.'

David Alston, Slaves & Highlanders: Highland Scots in Guyana before Emancipation http://www.spanglefish.slavesandhighlanders.index.asp?pageid=191563

1. ODNB online, Oliver Furley, 'Cameron, Sir Donald Charles (1872-1948), colonial governor'. Online genealogies give competing identities for Sir Donald Charles Cameron's father, the Donald Charles Cameron who married Mary Emily Brassington c.1868, as (1) born in 1824, died in 1882, the son, possibly illegitimate, of Mary Cameron, the sister of John Cameron (1773-1853) and Donald Charles Cameron (1781-1848); and (2) born in 1838, died in 1893, the son of Donald Charles Cameron (1814-1872), in turn reportedly the son of Donald Camisaine Cameron. As noted above, Donald Charles Cameron (1814-1872) in fact appears to have been the son of John Cameron and nephew of Donald Charles Cameron (d. 1848) of this entry.

2. PROB 11/2102/200.