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- Parish: Athinish, now joined to Tully, near Ramelton. Conwall, or Letterkenny.
Minister: Dugald Campbell, M.A.
Understandeth the Irish language, and able to preach therein, – church to be removed to a market-town, called Letterkenny, where there is eighty families of British inhabitants.
source: Reid, James Seaton. The History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Comprising the Civil History of the Province of Ulster, from the Accession of James the First; with a Preliminary Sketch of the Progress of the Reformed Religion in Ireland During the Sixteenth Century, and an Appendix Consisting of Original Papers, Volume 1. Edinburgh, UK: Waugh and Innes, 1834.
- DUGALD CAMPBELL, M.A. (Glasgow 1579); pres. by James VI. 30th Nov. 1581; was Moderator of the Presb. In 1597, and app. Constant Moderator by General Assembly in 1606; was a member of Assembly in 1610; died before 8th July 1633, aged about 76. He marr. (1) before 7th Dec. 1599, Margaret Kinnaird, widow of John Carnegy of Easter Fithie: (2) Katherine (died before 4th Dec. 1661), daugh. of John Makure, tailor burgess of Edinburgh, and had issue – Dugald; Margaret (marr., cont. 5th Jan. 1608, James, son of John Machen, burgess of Montrose). – [Brechin Tests.; Inq. Ret. Edinb, 418; Reg. of Deeds, lxxxiv., 299; Forfar Inhib., 19th April 1611; G. R. Inhib., 24th April 1619; Prot. Book of John Hay, v., 128; Clan Campbell, vi., 75, 117, 253.]
Scott, Hew. Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ: The Succession of Ministers in the Parish Churches of Scotland, from the Reformation, A. D. 1560, to the Present Time. Edinburgh, UK: William Paterson, 1870.
- The eldest son,
REV. DUGALD CAMPBELL, went to Ireland in 1611 with Andrew Knox, Bishop of Raphoe, and was incumbent of Letterkenny, co. Donegal. He m. Annabella, dau. of Robert Hamilton, of Barncleugh and Torrens, Ayrshire, and had with other issue,
1. JOHN, of whom presently.
2. Alexander of Donegal, who had a son, Patrick, mentioned in his will in 1664.
3. George, capt. in the army, m. Ann Melvill, and d.s.p.
4. Duncan, of Inverary, went to Ireland in 1612, and settled in Ulster, m. Mary McCoy, and had issue a son, Patrick, of Moyris and Magherahubber, who d. 1661, aged 48, leaving issue. His youngest son, John, settled in Virginia 1726, and had issue.
5. William, m. 1st, the dau. of Lamont, and 2ndly, Mary, widow of Archibald Campbell, of Ormsary, and had issue four daus.
source: Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, The Privy Council, Knightage and Campanionage, Seventy-Third Edition. London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1911.
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