CAMPBELL, James of Burnbank and Boquhan, MP, Colonel 1
- Born: About 1652
- Marriage (1): WHARTON, Mary 1
- Marriage (2): LESLIE, Margaret 1
- Died: After 1710 1
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James married Mary WHARTON.1 The marriage ended in annulment. (Mary WHARTON was born about 1677.)
Marriage Notes:
"James Campbell, of Burnbank and Boquhan; educated at Glasgow University; was, on the 17 May 1685, confined in Edinburgh Castle, that he might not join his father. On 14 November 1690, he, with the assistance of Archibald Montgomery and Sir John Johnston, of Caskieben, in Aberdeenshire, Bart., forcibly carried off and married Mary, daughter of Sir George Wharton, a girl of thirteen, with an estate of £1500 per annum, from her mother's house in London. The marriage was annulled by Act of Parliament, and Sir John Johnston was executed at Tyburn for being concerned in this outrage. Mr. Campbell escaped, was a captain of Dragoons, afterwards attained the rank of colonel, and was elected Member of Parliament for Renfrew 1699-1702, and for the Ayr Burghs 1708-10."
from Scots Peerage (vol 1) 1
James next married Margaret LESLIE, daughter of David LESLIE Baron Newark and Anna YORKE.1 (Margaret LESLIE was baptised on 19 September 1666 in St Monance parish, Fife, Scotland 2 and died on 19 April 1755 1.)
Marriage Notes:
"James Campbell, of Burnbank and Boquhan .... married Margaret, third daughter of David Leslie, first Lord Newark. She died 19 April 1755, leaving issue at least one son, Charles, at Glasgow University in 1718, and two daughters, Ann, born at Edinburgh 18 December 1696, and Mary, who left her estate of Boquhan, in Stirlingshire, to her cousin, General Henry Fletcher of Saltoun."
from Scots Peerage (vol 1) 1
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