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| Family Name History FREITAS The Portuguese surname Freitas appears to be a variant of Freites, and is of local origin, derived from the name of a place where a man once lived or where he once owned land. According to genealogists, the Portuguese family of this name are descended from Goncalo Ouveques, founder of the monastery of Cete, and father of Diago Goncalves de Urra, who fought under King Afonso Henrique of Portugal (1128-1185), in the Battle of Campo De Ourique. Diago married Dona Urraca Mendes de Braganca, and one of their sons, Joan Dias, was lord of Freitas, in the District of Fafe. He was therefore known as Joan de Freitas. His descendants adoptedd this name as a surname, and so the dynasty of the Freitas was founded. ARMAS : De vermelho, cam cinco estreias de seis raios de ouro BLAZON OF ARMS : Gules, five mullets of six points or, two, two and one and Military Fortitude, while or (gold or yellow) signifies Generosity and Elevation of Mind. The mullet (skar) represents Honour and Achievement in the Service of the State in ancient times. CREST : Two lions paws or paleways, grasping an arrow argent, feathered gules. Translation : The lion's paw denotes Strength and Courage. ORIGIN : Portugal NOTE: During my research I found, what I believe, to be the very first Freitas in the year 1000. She was the daughter of Erick the Red and sister to Lief. The entire story can be found on my web site http://www.railsoft.com/freydis.html Taken from: http://genforum.genealogy.com/freitas/messages/82.html |
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| Jonathan Saxton Campbell Wurtele, (1828-1903) Barrister and Judge of the Court of Kings Bench; Queen's Counsellor 1873, Professor of Commercial Law at McGill University; created Officer of the Legion of Honor, France, 1882; Member and in 1888 Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. He married 1st, 1854, Julia Nelson, daughter. of Dr. Nelson, second cousin of the great Admiral Horatio. He married 2nd, in l876 Sarah Braniff of New York. |
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| Changed her first name to Philomena in Georgetown, British Guiana |
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| http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/RoyWil33.htm - Royal William of 1833 |
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| called "Harriet". Though the dates of her birth and death are unrecorded, they may be assumed to have been circa 1796-1870. She married the Honorable William Sheppard, an eminent naturalist, who was also believed to have been associated with his brother-in-law John Saxton Campbell in a logging business. Lady Noble recalls that in her childhood (the l830's) the Sheppards owned a beautiful place "Woodfield" just beyond "Spencerwood" (the Lieut. Governor's residence) on St.Louis Road. It had a lovely garden overlooking the river; and indoors was an aviary full of lively, well cared-for birds. Our family chronicles do not give the names of any Sheppard children but my cousin Myrtle has a note that there was a daughter, and George Mellis Douglas mentions having received a letter in 1930 from a Maxfield Sheppard asking for genealogical information about the Douglas family "with whom he was connected through the Campbells". It appears therefore that the Sheppard line did continue. It is interesting to note that the side road which bordered "Woodfield" is still called "Sheppard Road" on present day maps. Another of Lady Noble's recollections is that Harriet's spinster Aunt Harriet Saxton lived with the Sheppards in her old age, - probably after her sister Charlotte's death in l830. She was clever with her hands and constructed a miniature farm scene with rivers, bridges, village and livestock which stood in a hallway in a long glass case and fascinated the children. Harriet Sheppard was herself a botanist and wrote a book on Canadian birds, sharing her husband's interest in them. |
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| Had a mellow soprano voice and unusual skill at the piano. She married Lieut. (later General) Charles Brackenbury of the Royal Artillery, who died in 1893 |
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| [From notes by Dorothy May Campbell] Youngest of the first Archibald Campbell's three sons. He was a Lieut.Colonel of the 99th Foot and fought in the wars of 1812-1825. While a Young Lieutenant of 26 and quartered in Montreal he met and on only a week's acquaintance married November 27/1818, Harriet Doxey (l799-1832), youngest daughter of an Irish Captain (also a United Empire Loyalist) who happened to be travelling with his family to Kingston, Ontario. (I, D.C.P., have seen the record of their marriage in the Montreal Court House.) Shortly after their marriage. Charles' regiment was ordered to the front and his mother Charlotte, widowed only four months earlier, sent a friend to bring the young bride back to Quebec - an arduous 3 day journey - where she and Charles' two youngest sisters (Henrietta and Louisa Sophia) took her to their hearts in "the Big House", - "Saxvilla". Two years passed before the young couple saw each other again. Charles and Harriet then acquired a house of their own; and his first son Archibald (1823-1906) writing in the year 1900 says: "My boyhood was passed at "Battlefield" within a stone's throw of the Plains of Abraham. I gather that "Battlefield" was the name given to their house and that it faced the scene of the historic battle between Wolfe and Montcalm. Charles' wife Harriet died circa 1833 when only 34 years old, leaving him with five children. It seems likely that her younger sister Fanny Doxey (1808-1897) then came to look after the children; and she and Charles were married August 26/1839. More about the children later. For his loyal services in the wars of 1812-1825, Charles was granted by the Crown a 500 acre tract of land on the twin lakes of William and George in Megantic Province, near the present village of St.Ferdinand where he built himself a comfortable yet picturesque home which he called "Bampcell" (transposing the "C" and "B" in Campbell). There he retired to on leaving the army, followed by many of his N.C.O.'s and men who settled around him, marrying French- Canadian girls, whose descendants are still there and, in spite of good Scots' names, now speak only French. Charles established a well- ordered farm on his property and apparently lived there the year round. One can only guess that this would been around 1845-1850. My Aunt Haddie, born 1854, tells how, as children, she, my father and the others used to love visiting their old grandfather at "Bampcell" romping in the garden glades and eagerly watching the farm activities. On rainy days, a well stocked library in his study was to them a treasure-trove. (In 1941, when my husband and I visited our second cousin, Richard, then American Vice-Consul in Montreal, we detoured from our drive to Quebec to find our way cross-country to this delightful old homestead beside Lake William. An avenue of elms led from the road to a densely arbored garden set like an oasis in the wheat fields, in the heart of which a Swiss Chalet type of house looked down a steep-succession of well kept terraces to the lake a hundred feet below. We were made most welcome by a charming Irish family, the Dillons and their young couple, the Napier Smiths, who had bought the estate 15 years earlier from the last Campbell descendant Mrs. Williams, re-naming it "Roscommon Lodge". They were all having tea on the front veranda commanding a superb view over the lake, and insisted on our joining them, later taking us over the house to show its historic features, - delicate wrought-iron balustrades, hand-made bronze fittings to the doors, French windows in all rooms, etc. - all so reminiscent of my grandfather's day. We could hardly tear ourselves away; and an orange sun was setting behind a church-steeple as we drove off through lavender shadows on the road to Quebec.) Charles ended his days at "Bampcell" in 1872 at the age of 80. It is told that on his deathbed he sent for his son Archibald and said "Well, Archie, here's. for the great leapt!" and passed away. His second wife Fanny also died there 25 years later, in 1897. |
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| Protonotary of Quebec |
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| Sir Charles McMahon, K.C.B., Captain in the 10th Hussars, son of Rt.Hon. Sir William McMahon, Bart., Irish Master of the Rolls. On retiring from the Army, Sir Charles settled in Australia, became Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Victoria and died in 1891. The McMahon property is in Tyrone. |
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| Son of the Dean of Exeter Cathedral. Lived in Bath, England. Schoolmaster at Penzance and Bath. |
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| Was a fine cellist and would have followed a musical career but when his brother Saxton was drowned, had to take his place in his father's law office. He visited his sister Margery in England in 1858 and there married Capt. Andrew Noble's younger sister, lsabella, taking her back to Quebec. They had 2 sons and 2 daughters. |
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| She was not only beautiful but an excellent pianist. Married in 1854 Capt. Andrew Noble of the Royal Artillery who soon afterwards was ordered to South Africa only returning to Woolwich in 1858 where Margery rejoined him with their daughter Lilias (Lily) who had been born in Quebec after he left. In 1860 Andrew was invited to join Sir William Armstrong, the great ordnance manufacturer of Elswick, and ere long became Sir Andrew Noble K.C.B. of Jesmond Dene House, Newcastle on Tyne. In the course of years they occupied or acquired some beautiful old homes in Northumberland besides maintaining a flat in London and constantly entertained interesting notables including the brother of the Japanese Emperor and Admiral Togo, the Naval victor in the Russo-Japanese war. In 1914 they celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary and a year later Sir Andrew died, she living on till 1930. Her book, appropriately entitled "A Long Life" is historically interesting, especially in relation to the Campbell family. |
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| Was a violinist and a fine tenor; good looking and a strong swimmer. From early boyhood he had a premonition that he would be drowned; and at the age of 24 he was, off a small yacht shared with a friend, while crossing the St.Lawrence to "Points Seche". |
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| Campbell Mellis Douglas, an Army Surgeon, Colonel, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for rescuing 17 soldiers from rebellious prisoners on the Andaman Islands and getting them safely to a ship under heavy fire. He married the young widow of Surgeon Valentine Munbee McMaster, 78th Highlanders, also a V.C., won at Lucknow in the Sepoy Mutiny who died leaving a year old son Bryce McMaster. (1934 Bryce was living at 15 Park Crescent Oxford.) |
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| George Mellis Douglas, born circa 1870, an explorer by canoe of the remote Canadian Northwest and a well-known author. (His adventures are told in "Lands Forlorn" published by the Knickerbocker Press, Putnams N.Y. 1914.) In 1937 he was living at Lakeside, Ontario. |
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| In 1934 was the Captain of the "Empress of Japan", |
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| Commander R.N. Killed in action 1915 |
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| Married 1914 the daughter of Charles Stevenson of Edinburgh |
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| Doctor of Bournemouth |
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| Killed in an accident on the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1882 |
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| Lilias Hilda Geils Noble, (called "Lily") born about 1856 in Canada. There is no mention of her marrying but she was always active and much interested in the Primrose League. |
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| George Noble, born in England before 1861 and was in the 13th Hussars in the Boer War. He married in 1898 and his daughter was born March 3/1900, the day before he embarked for South Africa. He later became Sir George Noble, Bart. |
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| Saxton William Armstrong Noble, born about 1863, married Celia Brunel James in 1891. They lived in Kent House, Knightsbridge. |
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| Accidentally killed in 1926 at Kingston Military Academy when a cadet of 18. Lily Noble, his father's first cousin, said of this tragedy "alas, an end to the male representatives of my grandfather - (the Archibald Campbell who married Agnes Durham George.) |
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| He was a descendant of Michel Chartier, Marquis de Lotbiniere, (l728-1799), Engineer in Chief of New France, Seigneur of Lotbiniere Vaudreuil, Rigaud. Built the forts of Carillon (Ticonderoga) and Isle au Noix. It was upon his advice that Montcalm attacked Fort William Henry on Lake George (1757) and waited for Abercrombie at Ticonderoga (1758). He was allied to the Vaudreuil family and his portrait hangs in the museum of Chateau de Ramsay in Montreal. My [Dorothy May Campbell] father, William Wallace Campbell visited Sir Henri Jolie de Lotbiniere then Governor of British Columbia, when en route to California as a young man in his twenties. I [Dorothy May Campbell] believe, but am not certain, that Sir Henri was Lucy's father-in-law. Another son of Sir Henri was Major General Alain Chartier Joly de Lotbiniere who built the Cauvery power development in India and was member of the Legislative Council of Bengal. I [Dorothy May Campbell] have no information about Lucy and Edward's descendants but they are prominent in Canada today. |
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| Left McGill University to volunteer in World War I and was killed in action when only 19. |
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| Called "Sophia", 1800-1885, married in 1824 Jonathan Wurtele, Seigneur of Riviere David and an Officer in the Quebec Cavalry in the War of 1812. His father, Josias Wurtele, came to Canada in 1782 from Stumpelbach, near Stuttgart, in Wurtemberg, Germany, where their ancestors are recorded back to 1559. (It is interesting to note that from l781 to 1783 there was quartered near Quebec awaiting repatriation a surviving contingent of German mercenaries - Brunswickians - who, under General Baron von Riedesel, had fought for the British in the American Revolution and many of whom had been prisoners of war from l779-1780 in Charlottesville Virginia, on Barracks Rd. The Baron and Baroness were well-liked in Charlottesville and cordially entertained by Thomas Jefferson and others. It must have been heartening to Josias Wurtele to find so many compatriots in Quebec when he first arrived in l782.) |
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| Louisa Wurtele, born 1838, died Jan.3l/1936 in her 99th year. Married in 1861 James Rankine (1825-1908) representative in Montreal of J.& P.Coats, the thread manufacturers of Paisley Scotland. They had 8 children. |
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| Colonel and Assistant Director of Medical Services of the Canadian Army, residing in Ottawa. |
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| A barrister and in 1941 had his office at 276 St.James St. Montreal. He and his brother Alan together inherited from their mother Louisa on her death in 1936 the Seigneurie of L'Islet du Portage at Pointe Seche previously owned by her Uncle John Saxton Campbell. |
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| The Reaves and Christies of Toronto:- are descended from Matthew Prior's youngest daughter, my [Dorothy May Campbell] grandmother's Aunt Isabella Prior, born 1816, who married ---- Reaves. Their son, George Reaves, who married Alma Crane. (I have a note that Alma was the daughter of Luther Crane of Boston but this may be inaccurate as Myrtle says that she was intensely Southern and declared that family fought for the South in the Civil War.) Their son Campbell Reaves, 1876-1940, married in 1901, Helen Beatrice MacDonald, born 1881. Their daughter:- Campbell Reaves, born 1903 married in 1924 Huntley Christie (1898-1946). (She married 2nd, 1960, Ashley Smith). Huntley Christie and Francis had 2 daughters and 1 son:- 1. Frances Helen Christie, born 1924. 2. Nadine Christie, born 1926, who married Robert Cranfield and has two daughters: 1. "Bobbie" born 1950. 2. "Betty" born 1951. 3. Huntley Campbell Reaves Christie, born circa 1928, married Patricia Garlick. |
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| Mor Campbell of Carryshank, (l733-1782) and his brother James both served with the 42nd Highlanders, "The Black Watch", through the conquest of Canada and fought at Ticonderoga (Ft.Carillon) in 1758 and at the fall of Quebec 1759. (There seems to have been yet another brother, Capt.Duncan Campbell of the Black Watch, who was at the taking of Quebec, He is mentioned by grandfather Archibald as "my children's ancestor"). From notes of Dorothy May Campbell |
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| Sir William Campbell, a descendant of the Earls of Breadalbane and Robert the Bruce. |
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| Royal Marines, born 1870. Was killed at Antwerp Oct. 6, 1914, while directing the fire of the guns of the Royal Marine Brigade from an exposed rampart |
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| Anglican missionary in Madagascar. |
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| Son of the Bishop of Montreal |
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| Trained as a civil engineer, he helped build the Canadian Pacific Railway, Frank inherited the ancestral home of Fulford in Devonshire and married Constance Drummond, grand-daughter of Lady Elizabeth Drummond, a sister of the Duke of Rutland. |
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| Georgina Louisa Campbell, c.1849-1880), was only three years old when taken her parents to Australia in 1852. Her health suffered from the hardships they underwent and she remained frail. In fact I have always believed that she died when quite a young girl, but it now appears that lived to be 31. She never married. |
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| Archibald Saxton Campbell, is never even mentioned by his mother in her book "Rough & Smooth", although he must have been born before she and Archibald set sail for Australia. We know that he died in infancy and must conclude that he he was born and died in 1851. |
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| Henrietta Campbell, called Harriett (1854-1930) My "Aunt Haddie". Was both beautiful and accomplished. One day, when about fifteen, having ridden her horse down the long driveway of "Thornhill" to the gate, she there encountered a Naval Lieutenant who gallantly offered to open the forbidden portal. A few years later, Captain Alfred Jephson (1841-1900) returned to woo the little girl he had fallen in love with and they were married in 1873, she being yet only 19 and he 32. He had seen service in the Crimea, India, China and Japan, and was wounded twice in the naval bombardment of the Japanese batteries at Kagoshima. Though they were never blessed with children, it proved a most happy marriage and they lived interestingly in England and many other countries, Aunt Haddie being a talented artist, authoress and brilliant hostess. Early in the 1890's Alfred was knighted for his prominent part in organising the Royal Naval Exhibition of 1891. Sir Alfred took part in the Benin River Expedition in Nigeria and received the Benin River Medal. Harriet's brother Kenneth Campbell who participated in that action, was awarded the D.S.O. Capt. Sir Alfred Jephson died in September 1900 and was buried in the cemetery of the old church in Dunsford village, Devonshire, where for centuries the Fulfords of Fulford, Aunt Haddie's cousins, have been laid to rest. When left a widow at 46, Aunt Haddie was still a beautiful and arresting woman. As Lady Jephson, her accomplishments and engaging wit had attracted a distinguished circle of friends, among them on occasion Edward, Prince of Wales who had worked closely with Captain Jephson over his pet project the Naval Exhibition and was much attached to him. He never failed to send Aunt Haddie a brace of pheasant from his big shoots. I still treasure copies of four of her books, "A Canadian Scrap-book", 1897; "Letters to a Debutante", 1908; "A Wartime Journal", 1915; and "Notes of a Nomad" 1918, the latter beautifully illustrated by her own water colors. For many years she was on the Committee of the Royal Water-color Society and her paintings were masterly. Aunt Haddie was unfailingly good to my brother Archie and me during our school days in England, our parents being out in Japan. In 1922 when my husband, our three small boys and I were in the New Forest on home leave, Aunt Haddie came down from London to stay beside us at the village "Bell Inn". I have always been glad that she and Chester had this opportunity of meeting for they greatly liked one another at once and with a mutual interest in painting, got along famously. He still recalls how movingly she recited poetry to us one evening by firelight. Eight years later she died in England, sadly alone. From the notes of Dorothy May Campbell |
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