It probably started by being taken up to Iveraray at least twice between 1955 and 1960. Dad got his first car in 1954/55.

He always said that we were Campbell’s of Argyle.

In 1980 Dad gave my Grandfather Campbell’s Wooden Box which contained loads of Photos going back to the 1880’s or earlier.


In 1980 we moved into our new house, a 4 bedroom one so I took over the smallest as my office and got dial up internet.

That’s when I really got started on Family History research.

As Ann’s parents came from Scotland we would visit those of the family still about.

Holidays usually Scotland and visited the Scotland Record office off Princes St.multiple times and local library wherever we were.

Glasgow Main library about 4x.

I shudder to think of the amount of money spent so that I could do research.

However when these Family History website started the floodgates opened. I use Ancestry, Scotlandpeople, Familysearch plus others if they are free Findmypast is very expensive to use.

All my research into my family pales into insignificance compared to Ann’s. It’s sort of mind boggling to a researcher.

Ann’s G G G/M worked in the Tower of London in 1841, a servant to 3 independent ladies. Household 15. In household 14 lived the Keeper of the Keys to HM. Jewel house.

She married a few months later a Private in the Scots Guards who on that Census was at St. James’s Palace.

Their 2 sons went into the 63rd and one went to Nova Scotia the other to Glasgow, Co. Cork where Ann’s Grandmother was born and the family then went to India with the 2 UZ Born and 4 others followed all born on Bengal area . Those all died over there as did their father.

What was left of the family ended up in Perth, Scotland

There is a lot more to it both before 1841 and after they got to Scotland. Ann’s grandmother I call the name change Queen.

She changed her name quite a lot and even more so when enumerators made the Census documents. She had about 14 variations of name over Census, marriage, birth and death certificates. Then she got lost. She remarried in 1941 under two other names not her own but I knew them.

At this point in time I am still trying to find where the devil she was at the time of the 1921 Census.

Two others, sisters of my Great Grandfather missing after the 1871 Census. Must have spend will over a 100 hours trying to find them.

I just love the Hunt of research but very few people have the time or inclination to do that type of research.

Allan C.