Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Nicholas Campbell
1517 - 1587 (70 years)-
Name Nicholas Campbell [1] Birth 1517 [2, 3] Gender Male Death 1587 [2, 3] Burial Bendochy, Perthshire, Scotland 
[2] Person ID I34716 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JMF Last Modified 20 Jul 2023
Father Donald Campbell, Abbot of Coupar Angus, b. Abt 1492, Inveraray, Argyll, Scotland d. Between 16 Dec 1562 and 20 Jan 1563 (Age ~ 70 years) Mother Margaret Family ID F20410 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Katherine Drummond, b. of Blair, Perthshire, Scotland d. Bef 1604 Marriage Bef 1563 [2] Children + 1. Margaret Campbell, b. Abt 1571, of Keithick, Couper Angus Parish, Perthshire, Scotland d. Aft 8 Aug 1631 (Age ~ 60 years)Family ID F20409 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 May 2021
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Notes - Also called Nicoll Campbell.
"[M]aster of arts; was granted by a royal decree of 1543, entitled Literas Legitimationis Nicola Campbell, all legal and natural rights "as if said Nicholas had been born in lawful wedlock"; was probably the "Nicolaus Campbell, nobilis," from the Diocese of St. Andrews who was a candidate for the M.A. degree at the Univ. of Paris, 1552; Dean of Lismore Cathedral, c. 1564-87; lord of Keithick, Dalvany and Craignatie, Perthshire; bailie of Crunan." [Brice McAdoo Clagett, citation details below]
He lies under a monumental stone at Bendochy parish church. The inscription, translated from Latin, reads:
Under this tomb there lies
the memory of
the very former and
highly skillful man of God
Master Nicholas Campbell of Keithick
who was the grandson of the
former Earl of Argyll
through the
Venerable Father, Lord Donald Campbell,
Abbot of Cupar,
who departed this life in the
year 1587
in the year of his age 70.
- Also called Nicoll Campbell.
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Sources - [S1579] The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States, Who Were Themselves Notable or Left Descendants Notable in American History by Gary Boyd Roberts. Second edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2022.
- [S5591] Charles G. Kurz, "The Ancestral History of Margaret Campbell of Keithick (1571 - c. 1631)." Yearbook of the American Clan Gregor Society 62, p. 55, 1978.
- [S6893] Seven Centuries: Ancestors for Twenty Generations of John Brice de Treville Clagett and Ann Calvert Brooke Clagett by Brice McAdoo Clagett. 2002.
- [S6113] Nathaniel Lane Taylor, "My Children's Royal Descents.".
- [S1579] The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States, Who Were Themselves Notable or Left Descendants Notable in American History by Gary Boyd Roberts. Second edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2022.