25 September 2020

My Campbell Line

SVG Family Tree TreeCampbell-Bodle

Well, I do believe that I have figured out how to post the parts of my family tree.  I found a wonderful FREE (as in beer!) program, The SVG Family-Tree Generator.  I will admit that I’m still learning the program, and still have some refinements to figure out.  Such as getting linked images to work.  So right now, I don’t have any images for the folks in this tree, so if you get an error message when you click on one of the cards please leave me a comment so I can fix it.

This tree is for my Campbell – Bodle, or my paternal side.  As you can see, the Campbell line is very short.  I only have records up to my 2nd great grandfather, James Campbell.  I do have DNA matches with some cousins that claim to have documentation for 3 more generations in this line.  But despite my repeated asking, they will not show me anything.  What they have shared is anything but definitive.  James Campbell was a very popular name in central and western Pennsylvania.  Having a tax record from the 1850’s that lists a James Campbell, with no other identifying facts is not proof enough to say this is the correct individual. 

This is just one example of the problems with the amateur genealogist, and I count myself among those.  Not everything is verified before being added to a family tree.  I understand that family stories say that some distant family members were of some high-born status.  But when I found a tree that tried to link mine to Anne Boleyn or the one that went all the way back to King Arthur, I was dumbfounded. 

In the case the late queen, there is documentation for her extended family.  One does not become queen of England without your family being well known.  And given the fact that she had only one child, Elizabeth I – who never married and had no children, I fail to see how a person on the 21st century can be related.  This tree may have linked to a sibling of Anne’s, I didn’t read that far.  I really have issues with trees that link to royalty.  It seems that we Americans may have revolted over a king, but we all want to be related to one.

Way back when, I asked my dad what part of Scotland our family came from.  Campbell is either the largest or second largest clan name in Scotland, depending on what source you read.  There are many cadet branches of the clan.  As the first Campbell male to be raised to a “lordship” (that may not be the correct term), had several sons.  Each son then was similarly raised and was given an area of land to rule over.  My dad’s answer was “Argyll”. 

Tradition holds that the first of the Campbell ancestors (still not yet called Campbell) who came into Argyll married Eva, daughter of Paul an Sporran and the heiress of the O'Duine tribe on northwestern Lochawe.

This ancestor may well have first been established in Argyll as a follower of the Earl of the neighboring Lennox when Alexander II, king of Scots, marched into Argyll to ensure the loyalty of its people. Alexander is said by Fordun, a Medieval writer, to have visited Argyll in 1222, and this period for a Campbell ancestral arrival on Lochawe is supported by the Gaelic genealogies and later charters.

The first of the name Cambel (the original spelling) who can be found in the surviving records was one who owned lands near Stirling in 1263. The earliest written date for a Cambel in Argyll is that for Duncan Dubh, landowner in Kintyre in 1293. The first date which survives for the Cambels on Lochawe is that for the killing of Sir Cailean Mòr (Great Colin) of Lochawe in 1296 when he was attacked by men of the Clan Dougall on the Stringe of Lorne. His family had been long established on Lochawe and at that time at least two other Cambels owned land in Argyll; Sir Duncan Dubh and Sir Thomas in Kintyre. (https://www.ccsna.org/clan-campbell-history)

So ALL Campbell’s come from the region of Argyll.  But is my Campbell line related to the actual clan or were we “assimilated” (resistance is futile!) into the clan.  According to my Y-DNA, we joined the clan is some manner, we were not born into the clan.  So somewhere back in time some male ancestor of mine did one of three things; he was in a clan that the Campbells defeated in battle and became a member by swearing an oath to the clan chief, he married into a branch of the family and took his wife’s  surname, or he just simply moved onto Campbell land swore an oath and took the name.  It really doesn’t matter to me.  I was born a Campbell, and that’s the good enough.

Kilchurn Castle of Loch Awe, Scotland.

Now back to the tree.  You can see that my paternal grandmother’s side (Bodle/Chapman/Gunsalus/Shuler) is quite better populated.  This was and still is a very large family.  One of my grandmother’s sisters had something like 108 descendants when she died!  So there is a very large pool of cousins to draw from.  My father was an only child so I have no first cousins on that side to ask to test.  I also think that other male cousins on the Campbell line are afraid of DNA testing.  They are worried they will be tied back to a 16th century cattle raid or something.


Peace,
B

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Generated by Parallax View's SVG Family-Tree Generator V5.3.3. See https://parallax-viewpoint.blogspot.com/2018/09/svg-family-tree-generator-v50.html Married on Monday September 7, 1711 in Churchville, Pennsylvania, USA. Married on Sunday January 28, 1753 in NY. Married on Saturday October 10, 1789. Married in 1828. Married in 1813 in Ulster, County Down, Ireland. Married on Thursday April 5, 1832 in Centre, Pennsylvania, United States. Married in 1823 in PA. Married in 1847 in Penn. Married on Friday August 28, 1835. Married on Tuesday January 16, 1883 in Milesburg, Centre Co., PA. Married on Friday January 5, 1877 in Howard, Centre Co., PA. Married on Wednesday January 20, 1909 in Williamsport, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States. Married on Thursday February 7, 1946 in Rockville, Montgomery, Maryland, USA. Born in September, 1827 in Franklin Township, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States. Died before Monday June 2, 1890 in Pennyslvania, USA. James Campbell (1827-c1890) Born on Tuesday March 15, 1831 in Howard Township, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States. Died in 1921 in Howard Township, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States. Ann E. McCauley (1831–1921) Born on Tuesday March 26, 1861 in Center County, Pennsylvania. Died on Friday February 8, 1924 in Bellefonte, Centre Co., PA. Samuel W. Campbell (1861–1924) Born on Monday October 4, 1858 in Ridgway, Elk, Pennsylvania, United States. Died on Sunday January 2, 1927 in McKeesport, Allegheny Co., PA. Eleanor A. Taylor (1858–1927) Born on Monday March 31, 1884 in Howard, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Died on Wednesday February 5, 1919 in McKeesport, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Herbert J Campbell (1884–1919) Born on Friday March 27, 1885 in Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Died on Monday July 21, 1975 in Miami, Dade Co., FL. Josephine M. Bodle (1885–1975) Born on Thursday March 28, 1912 in Milesburg, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States. Died on Tuesday February 19, 1985 in Miami, Dade Co., FL. Donald S. Campbell (1912–1985) Born on Sunday May 1, 1921 in Fork Dillon, South Carolina. Died on Friday November 23, 2001 in Columbia, Richland Co., SC. Geneva M. Hicks (1921-2001) Born on Tuesday November 25, 1958 in Miami, Dade Co., FL. Bruce L. Campbell (1958–) Born on Thursday July 16, 1857 in Helca Furnace, Centre County, Pennsylvania. Died on Tuesday December 11, 1923 in Flemington, Clinton, Pennsylvania, USA. Jerome Bodle (1857–1923) Born on Saturday March 10, 1860 in Hecla Furnace, Centre, Pennsylvania. Died on Friday April 4, 1941 in Lock Haven, Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Elizabeth E. Chapman (1860–1941) Born in 1781 in PA or NJ. Died after 1860 in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania ?. Henry McCauley (1781-c1860) Born in Ulster, County Down, Ireland. Died in Down Co., Ulster, Ireland. Martha Lindsay (?–?) Born in about 1813 in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Died on Wednesday August 29, 1877 in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. James Bodle (c1813–1877) Born in about 1816 in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Died in about 1858 in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Naomi Gunsalus (c1816-c1858‐ ) Born in 1773 in Ireland. Died in about 1845 in Spring Township, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States. David Bodle (1773-c1845) Born in Pennsylvania, United States. Died in Centre, Pennsylvania, USA. Mary Brown (?–?) Born on Saturday July 4, 1807 in Howard Township, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States. Died on Saturday July 22, 1882 in Centre Co., Pennsylvania. Jacob Taylor (1807–1882) Born on Wednesday April 12, 1826 in Union City, Centre Co., Pennsylvania. Died on Sunday March 29, 1891 in Howard Township, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States. Mary 'Polly' Hancock (1826–1891) Born in about 1776 in Middlesex, England. Thomas Taylor (c1776–) Catherine Wilson (?–) Born on Friday June 11, 1802 in Kersey, Elk, Pennsylvania, USA. Died in 1876 in Centre Co., PA. James R. Hancock (1802–1876) Born in 1806 in England. Died. Sarah Taylor (1806–?) Born on Sunday December 21, 1760 in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. Died on Wednesday March 1, 1843 in Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States. James H. Jr (1760–1843) Born in 1767 in York, York, Pennsylvania, United States. Died on Monday February 1, 1847 in Fishertown, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States. Elizabeth Robinson (1767–1847) Born on Saturday September 2, 1730 in Moreland, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States. Died on Tuesday January 26, 1796 in Newbury township, Bedford, Pennsylvania United States. James H. Sr (1730–1796) Born on Friday May 11, 1725 in Upper Makefield Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States. Died in 1787 in Newbury, York, Pennsylvania, USA. Elizabeth Randall (1725–1787) Born on Saturday October 6, 1770 in Adams, Pennsylvania. Died in April, 1831 in Clearfield (now Elk) County, Pennsylvania, USA. Libni Taylor (1770–1831) Born in 1775 in Pennsylvania,. Died in 1831 in Fox, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, USA. Sarah H. Willis (1775–1831) Joseph T. Sr (?–) Ann Willis (?–) Born in 1796 in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Died in 1834 in Howard, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. John W. Gunsalus (1796–1834) Born on Thursday November 24, 1796 in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Died on Tuesday November 8, 1887 in Adrian, Lenawee, Michigan, United States. Elizabeth Gunsalus (1796–1887) Born on Tuesday March 2, 1756 in Minisink, Orange, New York, United States of America. Died on Thursday March 15, 1838 in Howard, Centre, Pennsylvania, USA. Richard D. Gunsalus (1756–1838) Born in 1766 in Ireland. Died on Wednesday June 13, 1838 in Snow Shoe, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Eustacia A. Lucas (1766–1838) Born on Wednesday February 10, 1734 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. Died on Thursday March 1, 1787 in Wayne, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, USA. Jacobus Gonsalis (1734–1787) Born on Saturday March 26, 1735 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. Died in 1787 in Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA. Sarah Westbrook (1735–1787) Benedict Lucas (?–) Mary McKibben (?–) Born on Sunday April 7, 1754 in Kingston, Ulster, New York. Died on Monday May 13, 1816 in Washington, Pennsylvania. Emanuel Gunsalus (1754–1816) Born in about 1765 in Virginia. Died after 1850 in Washington, Pennsylvania, United States. Agnes N. Macklin (c1765-c1850‐ ) Born in about 1815 in Howard Township, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States. Died on Wednesday November 24, 1875 in Howard Twp., Centre, Pennsylvania. Henry N. Chapman (c1815–1875) Born in about 1827 in Howard Township, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States. Died on Thursday October 20, 1898 in Romola, Curtin Twp., Centre County, Pennsylvania. Margaret Miller (c1827–1898) Born in 1785 in Pennsylvania, United States. Died on Sunday February 20, 1853 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. George W C. Jr. (1785–1853) Born on Friday November 2, 1787 in Upper Milford, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, USA. Died on Tuesday December 25, 1855 in Spring Twp., Centre County, Pennsylvania. Margaret E. Shuler (1787–1855) Born on Thursday December 25, 1755 in Scotland, UK. Died on Tuesday January 14, 1834 in Pennsylvania, USA. George W. C. Sr. (1755–1834) Born in 1755 in Sussex, New Jersey, USA. Died on Monday May 13, 1833 in Pennsylvania, USA. Maria A. Hall (1755–1833) Born in August, 1723 in Little Blacktown, Alvah, Banffshire. Died on Saturday February 22, 1806 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. George A. Chapman (1723–1806) Isobell McIran (?–) Born in 1761 in Salford, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Died on Saturday October 16, 1824 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Henry Shuler (1761–1824) Born in 1764 in Pennsylvania, United States of America. Died in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Elizabeth Unknown (1764–?) Born in 1718 in Salford, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Died in 1766 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Wilhelm Shuler (1718–1766) Born in 1712 in Pennsylvania, USA. Died on Monday December 1, 1788 in Salford, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Elizabeth Tyson (1712–1788) Born in 1672. Died in 1779 in Salford, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Gabriel Schuler (1672–1779) Born in 1685 in Hoppenville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Died in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Margriet Rodes (1685–?)

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