Brief Life History of John
When John Campbell of Cessnock was born in 1490, in Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, George Campbell of Cessnock, was 13 and his mother, Lady Janet Montgomerie, was 11. He married Janet Campbell before 6 February 1522, in Loudoun, Ayrshire, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died before 16 October 1533, in Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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