Birth 26 August 1807 St. George Fort, Tamil Nādu, India
Christening : 16 December 1807 St. George Fort, Tamil Nādu, India
Occupation: Captain, 1st Bengal Light Cavalry Place: India
Archy and Emily: Archibald saw Emily at the Cathedral in Calcutta the first Sunday he arrived 1834, and made inquiries as to who she was, he thought she was exceedingly pretty, she was 16 at the time, they courted, with father's permission married July 11, 1836. 1845: Capt. Campbell packed himself, Emily and three children on ordered sea voyage back to England and fell very sick, the ship's doctor ordered him off the ship at Cape of Good Hope, Capetown, South Africa Rep to recuperate, but he sucumbed to his liver illness a month later Oct. 23, 1845. Emily with the 3 children went back to India.
Burial: Rondebosch, City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa, Saint Paul’s Anglican Church Cemetery
EPITAPH: Sacred to the memory of Capt. A. C. Campbell,
1st Bengal Cavalry
Died 23 Oct 1845 Aged 38.
BLESSED ARE THE DEAD THAT DIE IN THE LORD
Remarks about Archy from sister Isabella: He was very warm hearted and entirely unselfish.
These little insights are from a book called Strangerland: A Family at War by Helena Drysdale
Archibald and Queen Elizabeth II are 8th cousins five times removed
Baxter-5479 18:54, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
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