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Note: N2616 His death was occasioned through his being thrown from a gig near Beldorney.
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A silver box with a tortoiseshell lid is engraved: “THR to JAC” - who was this from? A friend it would seem, not a relation.
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Was judicial factor loco absentis to the Easter Elchies estate from Nov 1828 when James WIlliam Grant, 3rd of Elchies, who was in the East Indies, succeeded. It seems he continued to act in that role after James William appointed his son William, who was in Scotland, to act. A court case resulted... (Grant v Cameron June 24 1835)
(Cases Decided in the Court of Session.)
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The Monks of Grange, and Tam of Ruthven: a ballad of the olden time. With notes. [by John Alexander Cameron, Solicitor, Banff.]
Banff MDCCCXLIX Duodecimo. Pp1. b. t. 119
(A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain. By Samuel Halkett, John Laing.)
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He wrote and article about the Banff Lifeboat in the Banffshire Journal 3:6 7/12
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Under the terms of his uncle Alexander Donaldson (d 1807) of Jamaica’s will he and Alexander’s other nephews were due to receive £500 annually when they were under 21 years of age, and £3,000 thereafter.
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Marriages:
John Alexander Cameron, Esq., to Sarah, daughter of the late Major John Grant, Sd Royal Veteran Battalion, of Burton [Barton?]Meadow, Dawlish, Devonshire, and of Beldorney, Banffshire.
(London Planet , Sunday, March 18, 1838, Page 8.)
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He might have had to chagne his name to Donaldson:
His uncle Alexander Donalson (d. 1807) left an intail male, first to Robert Anstruther and his heirs, the son of his [the testator's] sister the Hon. Mary Anstruther by her husband the Hon. David Anstruther with remainder to her second son John Ashford Anstruther and his heirs, and then his [the testator's] nephew John Alexander Cameron son of his sister Anna Cameron by Peter Cameron, and then to her next son Alexander Donaldson Cameron, on the proviso they and any other heir took the name Donaldson.
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Gravestone at Glass:
Sacred to the memory of
J. A. CAMERON Banff d.at Beldorney 17 Mar.1850 & of
SARA his wife died in Banff 24 March 1873.
Back:
To the memory of their only dau.
MARY HELEN CAMERON
Died 17 Oct.1889 aged 44.
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