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Persoonlijke gegevens Adam Cameron 

• Hij is geboren ('illegitimate son of Colonel Sir Alan Cameron of Erracht (Lochaber)') rond 1772 in Inverness, Invernesshire, Scotland, UKInverness, Invernesshire, Scotland, UK.

  Noot: verwarring is mogelijk aangezien er ook een Inverness bestaat in Suriname.
  Een genealogie stelt de geboorteplaats op Vernes, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Deze plaatsnaamcombinatie is niet bekend.

• Beroepen:
• voor 1810 douane ambtenaar in Guyana.Bron 2
• rond 1817 administrateur in Plantage L'Espérance, Surinamerivier, Boven Suriname, Suriname.
• rond 1819 administrateur in Plantage De Uitvlucht, Orleanakreek, Suriname.
• voor 1841 raad, Hof van Politie en Criminele Justitie.Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname in .Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname.
• Eigendommen:
• tussen 1815 en 1817 eigenaar, Plantage Mary's Hope, Nickerie, Suriname.
• rond 1819 eigenaar & administrateur n.ux., Plantage Sporksgift, Commewijnerivier, Suriname.Bron 3
• rond 1819 eigenaar en administrateur, Plantage Waterloo, Warappakanaal, Suriname.Bron 4
• voor 1824 eigenaar, Plantage Nooitgedacht /Troton / Ellen (1825), Commewijne, Suriname.
• tussen 1830 en 1848 eigenaar van tussen 71 en 90 slaafgemaakten, .Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname.Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname.Bron 5

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  ZimireLeeg20 mei 18331838"
  

• voor 1841 eigenaar [na zijn overleiden gekocht door Nicholas Herbert], Plantage Hazard, Nickerierivier, Suriname.
• Geloof: Prot..Bron 6
• (Eigenaar) tussen 1819 en 1827 in Plantage Bekenhorst, Commewijnerivier, Suriname: eigenaar en administrateur.Bron 7
• Hij is overleden op 8 april 1841 in .Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname.Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname.Bron 8
• Hij is begraven (Graf 534; De grafsteen vermeldt "".... An old and highly respected Plant) rond 1841 in Nieuwe Oranjetuin, Paramaribo, Suriname.Bron 9
• De biologische ouders zijn Alan Cameron en Ann Cameron
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 25 mei 2023.

Gezin van Adam Cameron

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Johanna Elisabeth Lemmers.

Zij zijn getrouwd voor 1800.

(2) Hij heeft/had een relatie met Eleonora Herbert.

Kind(eren):

1. Alan Cameron  ± 1806-± 1865 
2. Nicholas Herbert Cameron  < 1810-> 1863 

Gebeurtenis (Concubinaat) rond 1805.

Gebeurtenis (Alternatief huwelijk) op 3 november 1815 in .Suriname .

https://gw.geneanet.org/margo58?lang=nl&iz=1&p=eleanora&n=herbert

(3) Hij heeft/had een relatie met Juliana Gemene.

Kind(eren):

1. Christoph Dorus Cameron  ± 1829-± 1890

Gebeurtenis (Concubinaat) rond 1828.

(4) Hij is getrouwd met Anna Esther Petronella van Halm.

Zij zijn getrouwd rond 1832 te .Suriname.

https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-willems-hoogeloon-best/I203667.php

Kind(eren):

1. Josina Juliana Halmen  ± 1814-1868

Gebeurtenis (Residence) rond 1838 in .Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname : Oranjestraat 107 ['bewonen ook het huis Gouvernementsplein 95' en bezate.Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname.Bron 6

Notities over Adam Cameron

Noot: Er waren diverse "Camerons" in Suriname en Guyana in de periode dat Adam Cameron er verbleef. Voor een overzicht zie de website Slaves &N Highlanders . Philip Dikland waarschuwt: "De naam A. Cameron komt in het begin van de 19e eeuw veelvuldig voor in de archieven. Feitelijk gaat het om 3 of 4 personen met dezelfde voorletter."

Gegevens mede overgenomen van Nico Eigenhuis 'Plantage Ellen' Suriname.nu - zie https://suriname.nu/surinamezoeken/knowledge-base/plantage-ellen/ en

"Cameron of Erracht (Lochaber)

For family treee see Cameron (Suriname) on Ancestry (subscription required)

Adam Cameron [c.1772–1841] was the illegitimate son of Colonel Sir Alan Cameron of Erracht (Lochaber), who in 1793, at his own expense, raised the 79th Regiment, which became known as the Cameron Highlanders. Adam Cameron served in the regiment as a volunteer, then ensign (6th November 1794), lieutenant (5th September 1795) and captain (London Gazette, Issue 14049, p932, 26 September 1797), transferring to the 39th Regiment in 1799 (Edinburgh Gazette, 22 February 1799, Issue 591, p46), serving with the 39th in Berbice, and retiring in July 1803 (The London Gazette, 26 July 1803, Issue 15605, p921).

In 1800 he made a temporary return to Britain with 'his Lady', that is his first wife Anne Elizabeth Lemmers [Conner v Cameron reported in Evening Mail, 2 December 1803; Lorainne Maclean, Indomitable Colonel (London, 1986), 176].

He was later described as living in Surinam from about 1801, being referred to in 1823 as a ’22 years resident’ in the correspondence of John Henry Lance, then British Commissioner for Arbitration in Surinam. (Surinam Museum: for this detail see Dikland, notes on plantation Alliance). This may be the date of his return after the above voyage to Britain.

Cameron is said, by Teenstra (Marten Douwes Teenstra, De negerslaven in de kolonie Suriname [H. Lagerweij, Dordrecht 1842 ], p337) to be the author of the anonymous Antwoord op bovenstaande Aanmerkingen (The Hague, Gebroeders Giunta d'Albani, 1824). However, the author of the Antwoord explains that he came to Surinam in 1813 and so the identification of him as Cameron is unlikely.

In 1805 he was appointed Deputy Venue Master there and from 1806 he was a customs officer [Johan Friederich Egbert Einaar, Bijdrage tot de kennis van het Engelsch tusschenbestuur van Suriname, 1804-1816 (M. Dubbeldeman, 1934), 66], serving as Comptroller of Customs under the Collector, George Herbert. There is a description of him leading a raid on a warehouse to seize contraband, drawing his sword when he was refused entrance by the owners, and using ‘coarse language' from his military background. Along with Herbert he was suspected of corruption but an investigation led to his acquittal. [Einar]. He continued inthis position until at least 1815 [Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack, 1815] and probably until the colony was returned to the Dutch in 1816. He was also a member of the colony’s Court of Policy and Criminal Justice.

In 1810 he led fund-raising among the inhabitants of Paramaribo, Surinam, to support the establishment of a Gaelic Chapel in London for the benefit of their ‘Christian brothers the Highlanders of Scotland’. The funds collected amounted to 3904 florins. [Report of the Proceedings of the Committee appointed to manage the affairs of the London Gaelic Chapel, 1810].

By 1816, as a member of the Highland Society of London, he was known as ‘Adam Cameron Esquire of Surinam’ [Statutes of the United Kingdom, 1816, 727].

Cameron formed a relationship with a ‘free coloured’ woman, Eleanor Herbert, with whom he had two sons, Alan [born c1806] and Nicholas Herbert Cameron [born c1808], both born in Guyana. In 1816 he married a Dutch woman, Anna Esther Petronella van Halm [Gentleman's Magazine, Vol 119, p178], the widow of Pieter Heydorn.

Adam Cameron bought plantation Alliance on the Commenwijn. In 1819 Dr James Sharpe, who had been the military surgeon from 1804 to 1816, when the colony was under British rule, wrote from Trinidad to Adam's father saying that Adam had got 'a loan from Holland' and paid off the mortgages on his property. He went on to comment that Adam was 'now clear and independent of the World, can go where & when he pleases in the World & enjoy the advantages and happiness of a Princely fortune, the last Year's Crops, which are now crossing the Atlantic are doubly sufficient to pay the loan he took up'.

In 1823 Judge Lance described Cameron as ‘a terribly stupid fellow but very friendly ; He either is – or pretends to be – deaf, which is a terrible nuisance’. It is difficult to reconcile this with Cameron’s success as a planter.

In his father's will, written in 1827, he is described as 'my much respected Relative . . . Adam Cameron of Surinam, expected home soon' and was bequeathed his father's 'gold chronometer by Arnold with its appendages'. [Lorainne Maclean, Indomitable Colonel (London, 1986), 286 & 296]

His death, in April 1841, was announced in the London Times:
On the 8th April, at Paramaribo, to the inexpressible grief of his surviving widow, and great regret of a numerous circle of friends, Adam Cameron, Esq., an old and much respected planter of the colony of Surinam, and formerly one of the members of the Hon. Court of Policy and Criminal Justice. [Times, 8 June 1841]

Adam Cameron's children:

His son Alan Cameron moved to Surinam, probably with his father, and had a daughter, Mary Ann Cameron, probably the child of an enslaved woman. Mary Ann was manumitted as a young girl in 1847.

Sources: this is largely based on information from the well researched Surinaamse Genealogie website.

Archibald Cameron

About 1824 Adam Cameron was joined in Surinam by his cousin, Archy Cameron [1792/97-1834], a (legitimate) son of Sir Alan Cameron's brother Ewen [Maclean, Indomitable Colonel, 292].

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