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THE ANCESTRY OF SIR HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN

1 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

b 7 Sep 1836, Kelvinside, Glasgow

d 22 Apr 1908, Westminster

Parents

2 Sir James Campbell, lord provost of Glasgow

b 3 Jun 1790, Inchanoch, Perthshire

d 10 Sep 1876, Stracathro House, Forfarshire

m 17 Jan 1822, Manchester Cathedral

3 Janet Bannerman

b 7 Jul 1791, Tullibardine, Perthshire

d 3 Oct 1873, Stracathro House

Grandparents

4 James McOran, alias Campbell, of Inchanoch, farmer

bap 8 Mar 1753, Port of Menteith

d 1831

m 1 Jul 1785, Port of Menteith

5 Helen Forrester

bap 17 May 1763, Kilmadock, Perthshire

d

6 Henry Bannerman of Manchester, merchant

b ca 1753

d 6 Jun 1823, Manchester

m 20 Jul 1777, St. Ninians, Stirlingshire

7 Janet Motherwell

bap 20 Jan 1755, St. Ninians

d

Great-grandparents

8 James McOran, alias Campbell, of Inchanoch

b

d

m

9 Janet McKercher

b

d

10 John Forrester of Ashentree, Perthshire

b

d Mar 1810

m

11 Helen Shaw

b

d 29 May 1811

12 William Bannerman of Tullibardine

b 1732

d 1812, Tullibardine

m

13 Janet or Isabel Lawson

b

d

14 David Motherwell of St. Ninians

b

d

m Sep 1748

15 Amelia Monteith

bap 18 Feb 1728, Logie

d

Great-great-grandparents

16

b

d

m

17

b

d

18

b

d

m

19

b

d

20 Robert Forrester of Wester Frew

b

d

m

21

b

d

22

b

d

m

23

b

d

24

b

d

m

25

b

d

26

b

d

m

27

b

d

28

b

d

m

29

b

d

30 Alexander Monteith of Logie

b

d

m 1714

31 Elizabeth Monteith

b

bur 6 Jan 1764, Logie

Sources

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Frederic Boase, Modern English Biography

Statutory death registers for Stracathro

Manchester Cathedral parish registers

J. Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry (1853)

James M’Conechy, The Poetical Works of William Motherwell, 3rd ed. (Glasgow, 1849)

Ashworth Peter Burke, Family Records (London, 1897)

William Arthur Shaw, Manchester Old and New (1894-96)

William Nimmo, History of Stirlingshire, 2nd ed., ed. William MacGregor Stirling (Stirling, 1817)

The Edinburgh Annual Register, 1823

Blackford parish registers

St. Ninians parish registers

Port of Menteith parish registers

Kilmadock parish registers

Logie parish registers

Testament of John Forrester and Helen Shaw (National Archives of Scotland, CC6/5/32)

Notes

Burke (1853) reports that number 8 was son of a James Campbell. However, James son of Donald McCoran and Agnes Haldan in “Inchie-noch” was baptised at Port of Menteith on 1 Feb 1713 (Port of Menteith parish registers) and there was a tradition that the prime minister’s family was descended from the Haldanes of Gleneagles (see G. Harvey Johnston, The Heraldry of the Campbells, 2 vols. [Edinburgh, 1920-21], 2:46).