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Persoonlijke gegevens Alexander [Sir] McGillonie Cameron of Invermaillie 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1736 in Fort William, Lochaber, Scotland, UK.
• Hij werd gedoopt in Invermallie, Lochaber, Scotland.
• Eigendom: vanaf 1821 Plantage Leasowes, Burnside Clyde & Oxford..

  1821 – Al. Cameron, W. Punett (almanak v Suriname; 1821)
  In 1821 waren Lot 214 en 215 inmiddels samengevoegd tot de grote katoenplantage Leasowes van 1000 akkers. Alexander Cameron en William Punett waren de eigenaren, J.C. Cameron was de directeur, en J.L. Cameron voerde de administratie.

• Vermelding vanaf 1819: Alexander Cameron esq of Surinam.

  In 1819 'Alexander Cameron esq of Surinam' was a member of the Highland Society of Scotland and in 1820 he was one of the vice-presidents of the Fort William subscription library. Both Cameron and Sir Walter Scott donated volumes to the library in that year [Caledonian Mercury - Monday 06 November 1820].
  The Highland Council Archive (Lochaber) holds a letter from Alexander Cameron, written from Surinam on 2 November 1821:
  My Dear Bro,
  My Brother Duncan going home in the Alexander bound to Rotterdam I did not have so good an opportunity of writing you. My last to you was dated 18th August which I hope you received before this, before this and to which I have nothing new to add, but that the times are not mending with us poor West Indians, but the Reverse, our produce (Cotton particularly) being now a complete Drug scarcely worth one third of what it was 3 years ago and no prospect of improvement. Some of us had hopes that Buonaparte would have got away from St Helena and get to America, where he would have got a strong party to join in anything hostile to you. But that has now vanished and poor Bony’s political and natural life and ambition now closed forever.

• (Advertentie / krantebericht) van 1821 tot 1830.

  De Surinaamsche Courant, no.58 Vrydag 22-10-1830 no. 85 (N.A.S)
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  TRANSPORTEN
  Den 19den october 1830, DONALD CAMERON, DUNCAN CAMERON, en WILLIAM MACKINTOSCH, als erfgenamen van wijlen ALEXR. CAMERON en JAMES ROBERTSON qq., WILLIAM PUNNETT, aan WILLIAM PUNNETT, van de plantagie Burnside, of wel Lot 210 en 211, cum annexis, bij verdeeling.
  Idem, JAMES ROBERTSON qq., WM. PUNNETT, en DONALD CAMERON, DUNCAN CAMERON en WILLIAM MACKINTOSCH, als erfgenamen van wijlen ALEXR. CAMERON, aan DONALD CAMERON, DUNCAN CAMERON en WILLIAM MACKINTOSH, van de plantagie Leasowes of wel Lot no. 214 en 215, cum annexis bij verdeeling.

• (Advertentie / krantebericht) vanaf 10 september 1830.

  Sur.Cour. 1830, 21 october; De compagnieschap bestaan hebbende tusschen nu wijlen Alexander Cameron en William Punnett, betrekkelijk de Plantagien Burnside en Leasowes cum annexis, gelegen in het Opper-District Nickerie, ingevolge onderlingeovereenkomst op den 21 Julij l.l. gedissolveerd zijnde, zoo wordt zulks aan de daarbij belanghebbenden bekend gemaakt, met vriendelijke uitnoodiging van een ieder die eenige vordering ten laste der gemelde Plantagien mogt hebben, daarvan opgave tedoen, en betaling te komen ontvangen, bij den laatst ondergeteekende ten zijnen huize aan de Maagdensteraat. Paramaribo, den 10 September 1830. Donald Cameron, Duncan Cameron, William Mackintosh allen Erfgenamen van nu wijlen Alex. Cameron, en James Robertson qq. William Punnett.

• (Advertentie / krantebericht) tot 14 februari 1835.

  Nw Sur Courant.1835, 14 feb; Gouvernements-Secretarij. Paramaribo, den 12 Februarij 1835. (9433) Alzoo JAMES ROBERTSON, in qualiteit als Gemagtigde van de Erven ALEXANDER CAMERON, dewelke zijn Eigenaren van de binnen deze Kolonie gelegene Plantaadje JOHN, zich bij rekeste aan den Gouverneur Generaal heeft geadresseerd, met verzoek om de Slavia Eva met hare kinderen Elisabeth, Sophia, margaretha en Alexander, van gemelde Plantaadje af- en tenname van ALEXANDER MAC INTOSH over te schrijven.
  Zoo is het , dat de Gouverneur Generaal goedgevonden heeft, alvorens hierop te disponeren, op te roepen alle degenen welke vermeenen mogten eenige redenen te hebben, zich hiertegen te verzetten, om binnen den tijd van veertien dagen, na de dagteekening dezer, van hun vermeende regt of pretentie ter Gouvernement-s Secretarij aanteekening te doen; zullende na verloop van dien tijd, door den Gouverneur Generaal zoodanig worden gedisponeerd als bevonden zal worden te behooren. De gouvernements Secretaris, G.A.VAN DER MEE.

• (Curr.Vitae) tot 7 december 1821.

  Clyde, Leasowes and Oxford were owned, until his death in 1821, by Alexander Cameron (of Invermallie, Lochaber). His heirs were his brothers Donald and Duncan Cameron, and William Mackintosh. [Research by Philip Dikland posted on Suriname Genealogie].
  In 1819 'Alexander Cameron esq of Surinam' was a member of the Highland Society of Scotland and in 1820 he was one of the vice-presidents of the Fort William subscription library. Both Cameron and Sir Walter Scott donated volumes to the library in that year [Caledonian Mercury - Monday 06 November 1820].
  When Alexander Cameron died in Surinam on 7 December 1821 he left plantations Clyde, Leasowes and Oxford to his brother Duncan Cameron, to William Mackintosh, the son of his sister Ann Cameron, and to Donald Cameron. It is likely that Donald was another brother. In 1822 Donald Cameron was appointed attorney in Surinam for John Piggott Wilson, one of the partners in Campbell, Dent & Co [Power of attorney of John Piggott Wilson dated 06/04/1822, Nationaal Archief Den Haag, 'Suriname: OudNotarieel Archief » Inventaris nr. 933, Scan: 29-33].

• (Eigendom) .

  De Surinaamsche Courant, no.58 Vrydag 22-10-1830 no. 85 (N.A.S)
  ADVERTISSEMENTEN
  TRANSPORTEN
  Den 19den october 1830, DONALD CAMERON, DUNCAN CAMERON, en WILLIAM MACKINTOSCH, als erfgenamen van wijlen ALEXR. CAMERON en JAMES ROBERTSON qq., WILLIAM PUNNETT, aan WILLIAM PUNNETT, van de plantagie Burnside, of wel Lot 210 en 211, cum annexis, bij verdeeling.
  Idem, JAMES ROBERTSON qq., WM. PUNNETT, en DONALD CAMERON, DUNCAN CAMERON en WILLIAM MACKINTOSCH, als erfgenamen van wijlen ALEXR. CAMERON, aan DONALD CAMERON, DUNCAN CAMERON en WILLIAM MACKINTOSH, van de plantagie Leasowes of wel Lot no. 214 en 215, cum annexis bij verdeeling.

• Hij is overleden op 7 december 1821 in Nickerie, Suriname, hij was toen 85 jaar oud.

  In 1843; William Mackintosh 'of the colony of Surinam' erected two gravestones in the kirkyard of Kilmallie (Lochaber), one in memory of his grandparents Alexander Cameron of Invermallie and his wife, Elizabeth MacBean, the other in memory of his father, Alexander Mackintosh [1769-1802].
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  Family lore claims Alexander Cameron as the father of Angus Cameron. Tacksman for InverMallie from 1762-1804. The house he built in Invermallie still stands to this day. A tombstone epitaph in the Old Kilmallie Cemetery states that Alexander Cameron died on 24 Dec 1831, aged 95.
  source: Family lore, & the 1881 obituary of Big John Mor Cameron, Turakina, New Zealand.
  ***

• Hij is begraven in Coronie, Suriname (Pltg.Burnside).
• Een kind van Dugall MacGillonie [4th Laird] Cameron of Invermallie
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 22 september 2021.

Gezin van Alexander [Sir] McGillonie Cameron of Invermaillie

Hij is getrouwd met Elizabeth MacBean.

Zij zijn getrouwd.

Alexander Cameron van Invermallie, ook plantage eigenaar in Suriname.
De familie Cameron. Alexander Macgillonie Cameron en Elizabeth MacBean hadden naast
- Ann Cameron, een dochter
- Jeane (Jane) Cameron,
- een zoon die luitenant,
- een zus die trouwt met een handelaar in Inverness (Leah Leneman),
- een zoon Duncan Cameron (1788-1835, gestorven te Inverness, Coronie),
- een zoon Angus Cameron (1764-1854, gestorven te Paramaribo), en
- Alexander Cameron. Deze was enkele jaren op de Maagdeneilanden voor hij naar Suriname trok.
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Camerons and MacBeans are both of Clan Chattan. The Clan MacBain supported the Jacobite Uprisings of 1715. Many of the MacBains were captured and transported to the plantations in Virginia, Maryland and South Carolina after the Stuart defeat.

Kind(eren):

1. Angus McGillonie Cameron  1764-1854
2. Ann Cameron  1770-> 1853 
3. Alexander Jr Cameron  ± 1770-1818
4. Donald Cameron  ± 1770-1837
5. Adam [lid hof van Politie] Cameron  1772-1841
6. Jane Cameron  1783-1868
7. Dugald / Duncan McArron (Cameron)  1788-1835 
8. Archibald Cameron  1792-1834

Notities over Alexander [Sir] McGillonie Cameron of Invermaillie

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Cameron of Invermallie
Alexander Cameron (before 1764–1821) younger of Invermallie was the son of a tacksman (principal tenant) on the estates of Cameron of Lochiel in Lochaber. He had gone to the Virgin Islands before moving to Suriname, where by 1804 he claimed to be ‘on a pretty extensive scale and as far as I have gone my prospects are favourable’.56 In the same year, presumably following a return visit to Lochaber, he had written to Archibald Macmillan, a former tacksman on the Locheil estates who had led a group of 450 emigrants to Glengarry County, Ontario, in 1802.[57] In his letter he described what was happening to the tenants in Lochaber:
Everything is turned upside down since you left Lochaber, and the remainder of those unfortunate people you will see emigrating, or at least as many of them as have the means in their power. Families who had not been disturbed for 4 or 500 years are turned out of their house and home and their possessions given to the highest bidders. So much for Highland attachment between Chief & clans. But my own opinion is that the great gentlemen alluded to are doing a general good without any intentionof doing so, by driving those people to desperation and forcing them to quit their country. I am very happy to hear that all who accompanied you are well and I sincerely hope they will never have any cause to repent the change.[58]

Cameron's own father was by then in reduced circumstances, having been ‘for several years … merely a Crofter’, and the attraction of emigration was clear.[59]
Alexander was joined in Suriname by at least three of his brothers – Angus (1764–1854), Duncan (1788–1835) and Donald – and by his sister Ann (1774–1854). Ann also brought to the colony William Mackintosh (1799–1848) and Alexander Mackintosh (1803–53), her sons by her first marriage in the Highlands, and she later remarried to James Munro ‘of Surinam’, whose name suggests he might too have had Highland origins.
- When Cameron died in Suriname in 1821 he left his four plantations Burnside, Clyde, Leasowes and Oxford on the Coronie coast – together with 550 slaves – to his brothers and nephews, his son Alexander having drowned at Nickerie in 1818.
- Although Alexander Cameron left his property to a number of relations, including his brothers, it was his nephews, Alexander and William Mackintosh, who expanded the family's interests. By 1843, when William erected family gravestones in Lochaber, he was the owner of Inverness and managed the Bellevue, Clyde, Leasowes and Oxford plantations, all in Coronie, while Alexander owned John, Totness, Friendship and Bantaskine in Coronie, and Leliendaal on the Commewyne. Both brothers married in Suriname.60 William died there in 1848 and Alexander in 1853. Their mother, Ann Cameron, had returned to the Highlands and died in Inverness in 1854 at the age of 80.

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