Colin Campbell of Colgrain

COLIN CAMPBELL OF COLGRAIN

Colin Campbell of Colgrain is the second son of Colin Campbell of Colgrain and his wife Janet Miller Hamilton. He was born on 2 September 1819 and his baptism was registered on 22 October 1818, at New Kilpatrick in Dunbartonshire, Scotland. New Kilpatrick Baptismal Records

He married in 1845, Jessie, daughter of William Middleton, merchant in Glasgow. One of Colin's brothers, Thomas, married his first cousin, Mary, daughter of the first Possil : one of his sisters, as we have seen, married her first cousin, the present Possil : another sister married Alexander Struthers Finlay of Castle Toward, M.P. : and another married a son of the above William Middleton, Major William Middleton, 7th Dragoon Guards, to whom there is a monument in the nave of the High Church [Glasgow West End Addresses: Possil] http://www.glasgowwestaddress.co.uk/Old_Country_Houses/Possil.htm

• Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed. London : Harrison 1879. Vol I. page 262