Sir Ewen Cameron of Fassiefern, 1st Bt.

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Biographical Summary

"II. Sir Ewen Cameron, created a Baronet, as already stated, in 1817. He resided at Inverscadale House, since the property of Maclean of Ardgour. He married Lucy, daughter of Duncan Campbell of Barcaldine and Glenure, with issue:

  • John, a colonel in the army, born at Inverscadale on the 16th of August, 1771; killed at Quatre Bras, and of whom presently.
  • Duncan, afterwards Sir Duncan Cameron, Baronet
  • Peter, commander of the East Indiaman " Balcarras," H.E.I.C.S., who died unmarried.
  • Mary, who married her cousin, Alexander Macdonald of Glencoe, with issue John, and others.
  • Jean, who, in 1787, married Roderick MacNeil of Barra, with issue
    • Roderick, a general in the army and colonel of the 78th Highlanders, who married, in 1818 Isabella, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Brownlow of Lurgan, County of Armagh, and sister of the first Baron Lurgan, with issue a daughter, Caroline, who married an officer in the 78th Highlanders.
    • Cameron
    • Ewen
    • Anne, who married John Campbell of Achallader, with issue John and Jane
    • Louisa
    • Jane, who, on the 15th of July, 1828, married the Right Hon. Charles Brownlow, created Lord Lurgan in 1839, with issue Charles Edward, the present Baron, and ClaraAnne-Jane, who married William Macdonald of St. Martin's Abbey, Perthshire, with issue one son, Montague William Colquhoun Farquharson, late of the Grenadier Guards, born in 1852.
  • Catherine, who, in 1798, married Colonel Duncan Macpherson of Cluny, with issue
    • Ewen Macpherson, C.B., the present chief, who married Sarah Justina, daughter of Henry Davidson of Tulloch, with issue (a) Duncan, C.B., late colonel of the 42nd Royal Highlanders (Black Watch), who married Emily, daughter of Major-General Philips Harris, without issue ; (b) Ewen Henry Davidson, late colonel commanding the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders, unmarried ; (c) George Gordon, late captain, Coldstream Guards, who married Bertha Maria, second daughter of the late Matthew Marsh of Ramridge, sometime M.P. for Salisbury, Wilts, with issue one daughter, Georgina; (d) Albert Cameron, who married Frances, eldest daughter of the late Rev. Henry Addington Howton, Grange, Bedfordshire ; (e) Caroline, who married George Dartmouth Fitzroy, late captain, Royal Navy, with issue two sons and three daughters Ewen, Symon, Emily, Georgina, and Margaret ; (f) Catherine, unmarried ; (g) Lucy, who married Edward Fitzroy, major, Royal Artillery, a brother of her eldest sister's husband, with issue a daughter, Eva.

Colonel John Cameron having died before his father, Sir Ewen (who died in 1828) was succeeded in the Baronetcy by his second son."

SOURCE: History of the Camerons, with genealogies of the principal families of the name; Alexander Mackenzie; 1884; page 282

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Sir Ewen Cameron of Fassiefern, 1st Bt.'s Timeline

1740
March 20, 1740
Fassifern, Kilmallie, Argyll-shire, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1755
1755
1770
1770
1771
August 16, 1771
Gordon Highlanders, UK
1772
1772
1775
1775
Kilmallie, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1776
June 1776
KILMALLIE, SCOTLAND
1777
September 10, 1777
KILMALLIE, SCOTLAND
1828
1828
Age 87