Married to Elizabeth Fraser Mathison, in Rosemarkie, then returning to Berbice,
their first 3 children died in infancy and they returned to Scotland
Brother John Cameron
https://astro.uni-bonn.de/~deboer/genea/as/as481m.html
Donald Charles Cameron 1814 - 1872 "his uncle, "Donald Charles Cameron of the West Indies", a bachelor, suggested his nephew come to Guiana to manage the estates (located in the area of the Berbice river) and he would then (eventually) inherit his uncl',s possessions. Donald is said to have managed the estates with great success." Donald, the nephew, set up Barcaldine, Australia
Money from slavery in Berbice and elsewhere in British Guiana
read these references for the details.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/8315
https://www.spanglefish.com/slavesandhighlanders/index.asp?pageid=191563
Donald Charles Cameron was active in Berbice from at least 1811 [E&DRG 23 Feb 1811 and London Gazette, which refers to him as attorney for J, T & A Douglas & Co of Glasgow]. He formed a partnership with his kinsman John Cameron for which accounts survive for 1816 to 1840, detailing shipments to Europe of coffee, cotton, rum and sugar, plantation management, sale and hire of named negro slaves, and dealings in general merchandise, including cattle [NAS/CS96/972-981].
Other members of the Cameron family were in different parts of the West Indies.
Donald Charles Cameron 1818–1872
Alexander Cameron 1819–1822
Colize Cameron 1820–1823
Maria Grace Cameron 1822–1906
Elizabeth Cameron 1823–
John Cameron 1824–1857
Allan Gordon Cameron 1827–1871
Helen Cameron 1828–1905
Donald Charles Cameron 1831–1891
Patrick Ewan Cameron 1833–1853
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/8315
LA - Latest Known Association
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → JOINT OWNER
Canefield [ British Guiana | Berbice ]
1831 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → OWNER
Canefield [ British Guiana | Berbice ]
1818 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → JOINT OWNER
Dageraad [ British Guiana | Berbice ]
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → JOINT OWNER
Goedbanannenland [ British Guiana ]
1831 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → JOINT OWNER
L'Enterprise [ British Guiana | Berbice ]
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → JOINT OWNER
Lochaber [ British Guiana | Berbice | Berbice - Canje ]
Local secondary material shows Cameron, Davidson and Barkly buying four estates - Dageraad, Sandvoort, St Jan and Dankbaarheid - from the Berbice Association in November 1818, and then dividing them among themselves. Sandvoort was subdivided by the Camerons into Sandvoort and Lochaber.
1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → JOINT OWNER
Sandvoort [ British Guiana ]
Local secondary material shows Cameron, Davidson and Barkly buying four estates - Dageraad, Sandvoort, St Jan and Dankbaarheid - from the Berbice Association in November 1818, and then dividing them among themselves. Sandvoort was subdivided by the Camerons into Sandvoort and Lochaber.
The will of Donald Charles Cameron of [Foxhall] Kirkliston, Linlithgow, West Lothian [and of Barcaldine] proved 08/11/1849. He left his estate in trust to fund an annuity of £200 p.a. to is wife Elizabeth Fraser Mathison over and above the provision under their 1817 marriage settlement, and annuities of £30 p.a. to two sisters and £600 lump sums to two other sisters. He left £10,000 each to his three younger sons at 21, and instructed that a further £10,000 each be invested for two of his daughters, given that he had provided £10,000 to their sister on her marriage with 'Mr Campbell.'
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