FatherJohn Campbell b. 1808, d. 5 Oct 1852
MotherCatherine MacCallum b. 1811, d. 3 Jan 1885
Pedigree

Birth, Death, Marriage

Ann Campbell was born before 14 April 1833 in Kinchrackine, Argyll, Scotland.1 
She married John Dunbar on 5 December 1852 in Glasgow, Scotland.2 
She died on 7 August 1889 in Rutherglen, Victoria.3,4,5,6 

Family

John Dunbar b. 1817, d. 1876
Children
ChartsCampbell, John, descendant chart

Story

Ann started life in the Scottish highlands and finished up near Rutherglen in Victoria. In between, she married in Scotland and had one child enroute to Australia, one in Portland, one in Prahran and five near Rutherglen. She is buried in Wahgunyah cemetery with husband John, two of her children and her mother Catherine.
 
Ann was born and grew up in Upper Kinchrackine, Glenorchy, Argyll, Scotland. For a map of places relevant to the family, see this Glenorchy map.7
 
Changing Fortunes on the Crofts
When John and Catherine Campbell married, they lived and raised their large family on the croft belonging to John's father, Archibald. In the early years the croft provided plenty of food through the planting of potato crops. In the 1841 UK census, we see John, Catherine and their young family living with John's parents, Archibald and Ann Campbell in Upper Kinchrackine, Glenorchy, Argyll.

The family's fortunes changed dramatically in 1846 with the arrival in the Scottish highlands of the devastating potato blight. Within a single season, the family and all those around them, were without their main food source.

Unable to now make a living on the croft, the family members were forced to work elsewhere to survive. By the 1851 UK census, a lot had changed. John's mother had died. John was no longer with the rest of his family, but in Kings House about 30 km to the north. Eldest son Alexander was working as a 'post boy and labourer' in Bunessan on the Isle of Mull about 80 km to the west. Eldest daughter Ann was working as a housemaid in the home of Lilly Campbell, her father's aunt, in Ardchattan about 23 km to the west. Twelve year old Donald was also there. And sixteen year old Janet was working as a domestic servant for the Marquis family just across the river in Stronmilchan, where Marquis senior was a crofter and Marquis junior was a shoemaker.

Catherine and the now seven younger children remained on the croft with John's 77 year old father.

In 1852, the government, through the newly established Highland Emigration Society, offered them a way out of their desperate plight. The offer was for plentiful food and work in booming Victoria. In return they would have to sell up and say goodbye forever to any family left behind. See From the Scottish Highlands to Booming Victoria.8,9,10
 
Marriage to John Dunbar
Ann didn't move to Victoria at the same time as the rest of her family. While working as a housemaid in Ardchattan, the 18 year-old became friendly with a lodger there by the name of John Dunbar.10
 
John Dunbar and Ann Campbell married in Glasgow in December 1852.2
 
Ann could not have known at the time of her marriage that her father and two sisters had died on their way to Victoria and that the rest of the family was still in quarantine, as this news did not reach the UK until February 1853.11
 
Family and Move to Australia
The following year, now with a one year-old son John in tow, the trio set sail for Australia aboard the Oithona.12
 
A family of three left Scotland, but four arrived in Portland on Victoria's south-west coast on 30 January 1855.12
 
Some time in January, while still at sea, Ann gave birth to another child. On arrival, the boy was named James (registration no. 174 or 174M). While no death registration can be found, it seems this James died within 12 months of arrival in Portland.13,14
 
The Victorian Pioneer index and Victorian registry show a second James Dunbar was born in Portland in 1956 and died the following year. The Victorian registry death shows age 4, but the Pioneer index shows 4 months. While this is only a year after the birth of John and Ann's previous James, the high birth registration number (13329) and low death registration number (1647) are consistent with the late 1856 birth and early 1857 death of the four month-old James (II).15,16,17
 
Another child, Campbell, was born in Prahran, before the family moved to the Rutherglen area. Here five more children were born including twins Joseph and Mary Ellen who died as infants.18,19
 
Caring for her Ann's Mother
Ann Dunbar and the family looked after Ann's mother Catherine in her final years. Ann's son Campbell Dunbar was the informant on Catherine's death registration.20
 
Catherine's will, dated 27 December 1884, directs £20 to daughter Lily Neilson, with the balance equally divided between daughter Ann Dunbar widow, Jessie Hamilton (wife of William Hamilton of Howlong, storekeeper), and Lily Neilson (wife of John Neilson of Modemere, farmer). Ebenezer Steggall of Rutherglen, minister of religion, is appointed sole executor.21
 
Final Resting Place
Ann Dunbar is buried in Carlyle cemetery, Wahgunyah. She shares a grave with her husband John, two of their children, Joseph and Mary Ellen, and Ann's mother Catherine Campbell.22
Headstone of John, Ann, Joseph & Mary Ellen Dunbar and Catherine Campbell, Carlyle cemetery, Wahgunyah
Image: BillionGraves
Ann did not leave a will. Her estate had a nett value stated as 'eight hundred and five pounds four shillings'. Assets included property of around 320 acres with house and shed (c. £1300), 30 acres under crop, 4 horses, 5 cattle, farm equipment and furniture; total value £1460/7/7. The major liability was a mortgage of around £500.3,4
 

Citations

  1. [S309] International Genealogical Index (IGI), online, 'Ann Campbell', christening, 14 April 1833, viewed 20 November 2014, http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/MS4Q-QZQ
  2. [S161] FamilySearch, online, Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910, John Dunbar and Ann Campbell entry, Glasgow, Lanark, 5 December 1852, viewed 20 November 2014, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XYW8-B48
  3. [S419] 'Anne Dunbar', VPRS 28/P0 Probate and Administration Files, unit 503, item 40/729, probate administration, 29 October 1889.
  4. [S420] 'Anne Dunbar', VPRS 28/P2 Probate and Administration Files, unit 272, item 40/729, probate administration, 29 October 1889.
  5. [S270] Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, registry and index, Ann Dunbar entry, death registration no. 14012, 1889.
  6. [S238] Ann Dunbar, death registration no. 14012, 7 August 1889.
  7. [S309] International Genealogical Index (IGI), online, Ann Campbell entry, christening, 14 April 1833, viewed 20 November 2014, http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/MS4Q-QZQ
  8. [S197] UK Census 1841, transcript, Archibald Campbell household, Glenorchy, Argyll, Scotland, viewed 20 November 2014, Ancestry.
  9. [S127] UK Census 1851, transcript, Duncan Marguis household, Janet Campbell entry, Glenorchy and Inishail, Argyll, Scotland, viewed 20 November 2014, Ancestry.
  10. [S127] UK Census 1851, transcript, 'Lilly Campbell' household, Ann Campbell entry, Ardchattan, Argyll, Scotland, viewed 20 November 2014, Ancestry.
  11. [S252] Fever Beach: The story of the migrant clipper 'Ticonderoga', its ill-fated voyage and its historic impact, QI Publishing, 2002, p. 107.
  12. [S388] Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists 1839-1923, online, Oithona, 1855, Dunbar entry, viewed 5 October 2014.
  13. [S3] Victorian Pioneer Index 1836-1888, CD-ROM, Macbeth Genealogical Services, 1998, James Dunbar entry, birth registration no. 174M, 1855.
  14. [S270] Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, registry and index, James Dunbar entry, birth registration no. 174, 1855.
  15. [S3] Victorian Pioneer Index 1836-1888, CD-ROM, Macbeth Genealogical Services, 1998, James Dunbar entry, birth registration no. 13329, 1856.
  16. [S3] Victorian Pioneer Index 1836-1888, CD-ROM, Macbeth Genealogical Services, 1998, James Dunbar entry, death registration no. 1647, 1857.
  17. [S270] Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, registry and index, James Dunbar entry, birth registration no. 13329, 1856.
  18. [S3] Victorian Pioneer Index 1836-1888, CD-ROM, Macbeth Genealogical Services, 1998, Mary Ellen Dunbar entry, birth registration no. 25376, 1874.
  19. [S3] Victorian Pioneer Index 1836-1888, CD-ROM, Macbeth Genealogical Services, 1998, Joseph Dunbar entry, birth registration no. 25375, 1874.
  20. [S396] Catherine Campbell, death registration no. 3191, 3 January 1885.
  21. [S413] 'Catherine Campbell', VPRS 7591/P2 Wills, unit 100, item 29/351, 27 December 1884.
  22. [S422] BillionGraves, online cemetery data, Ann Dunbar entry, 1889, viewed 20 June 2017, https://billiongraves.com/grave/Ann-DUNBAR/4180470#/
  23. [S3] Victorian Pioneer Index 1836-1888, CD-ROM, Macbeth Genealogical Services, 1998, birth registration no. 13329, 1856.
  24. [S3] Victorian Pioneer Index 1836-1888, CD-ROM, Macbeth Genealogical Services, 1998, birth registration no. 7715, 1858.
  25. [S3] Victorian Pioneer Index 1836-1888, CD-ROM, Macbeth Genealogical Services, 1998, birth registration no. 12165, 1860.
  26. [S3] Victorian Pioneer Index 1836-1888, CD-ROM, Macbeth Genealogical Services, 1998, birth registration no. 23484, 1863.
  27. [S3] Victorian Pioneer Index 1836-1888, CD-ROM, Macbeth Genealogical Services, 1998, birth registration no. 5753, 1870.
  28. [S3] Victorian Pioneer Index 1836-1888, CD-ROM, Macbeth Genealogical Services, 1998, birth registration no. 20309, 1871.