Catherine Cameron

Born: 1772, Kilmallie, Fort William, Scotland
Marriage (1): Col. Duncan MacPherson in 1798
Died: 20 Jan 1855 aged 83

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Spouses/Children:

1. Col. Duncan MacPherson

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bullet Birth Notes:

http://www.clan-macpherson.org/museum/mem/021b_catherinebio.htmll

And

http://www.clan-cameron.org.au/getperson.php?personID=I36171&tree=cameron1

bullet Death Notes:

http://www.clan-macpherson.org/museum/mem/021b_catherinebio.htmll

bullet Sources of information or noted events in her life were:

• Web Based Info. http://thepeerage.com/p50754.html#i507536

• General Comment. CATHERINE MACPHERSON

1772 - 20th January 1855, age82
The daughter of Sir Ewen Cameron of Fassifern, Duncan's second cousin and the father of the famous Colonel John Cameron of Fassifern, who was killed at Quatre Bras in 1815. She married Duncan Macpherson of Cluny in 1798 when Duncan was in his fiftieth year she bore him four sons and four daughters :
1. Louisa born 15 March 1800 but of whom we have no further information
2. Catherine born 10th March 1801 but of whom we have no further information
3. Jannette born 2nd October 1802 who married her second cousin Archibald Thomas Fredrick Fraser in 1822
4. Ewen of Cluny, born 24th April 1804, who succeeded as Chief. Served as a captain in the Black Watch
5. Maria Cameron born 18th June 1805 who married Captain John William MacCaskill, 79th Regiment on 15th July 1841
6. Ewen Cameron, born 21st June1806, who became a Lt. in the 48th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry, and died s.p. 1832
7. Archibald Fraser, born 13th December 1807. He became a Lt. Col. in the Madras Army who died unmarried 25th May 1877. His service medals are on display in the glass showcase at Panel 43
8. John Cameron, Lt. Col. of the Black Watch, born 24th June 1809; married, in 1852, Mary Popham, eldest daughter of the Rev. Richard Walton White, Rector of Wotton, Isle of Wight; died at Stirling in 1873. On his tombstone it is recorded that he served twenty-five years in the Black Watch, and was engaged at the Battle of the Alma and in the trenches at Sebastopol, for which he received the Crimean and Turkish medals.

A son of John and Mary, Duncan, born 29th May 1853 became a Captain in the Royal Navy, married Edith, daughter of Capt. Arthur de Capell Brooke of Luddington Hall in 1899; died 19th February 1923, leaving with other issue a son, Francis Cameron Macpherson, who became the 25th Chief of the Clan Macpherson.

It is remarkable that two of Colonel John's nephews (sons of Ewen), then active young officers, also took part in the Crimean War -- the elder, Col. Duncan, C.B., (21st Chief) who ultimately attained command of the Black Watch; and the second, Col. Ewen (22nd Chief) who ultimately attained command of the 93rd Highlanders.
http://www.clan-macpherson.org/museum/mem/021b_catherinebio.htmll

Catherine married Col. Duncan MacPherson, son of Ewan MacPherson and Janet Fraser, in 1798. (Col. Duncan MacPherson was born in 1748 and died on 1 Aug 1817.)

bullet Sources of information or n events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info. http://www.clan-macpherson.org/museum/mem/021b_catherinebio.htmll

And

http://www.clan-macpherson.org/museum/mem/021b_catherinebio.htmll

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