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     Donald Charles Kennedy Cameron was born in 1857 in Native Creek.² He was the son of Donald Charles Cameron and Margaret Anne Moore.¹ Donald Charles Kennedy Cameron married Arabella Adelaide Anita Cameron.³ Donald Charles Kennedy Cameron married Clara Emily Holme, daughter of Rev. T. Holme, on 20 April 1892 in All Souls, Leichhardt, New South Wales.⁴

     Capt. Donald Colin Cameron was the son of Ewen Cameron and Johanna MacIvor.¹ Capt. Donald Colin Cameron died in December 1883 in Tallisker, Syke.¹

     Eliza Cameron was born on 7 August 1852.² She was the daughter of Donald Charles Cameron and Margaret Anne Moore.¹ Eliza Cameron died of diptheria on the voyage to Australia. Buried on St. Vincent.¹

     Elizabeth Patricia Cameron was the daughter of Donald Charles Cameron and Margaret Anne Moore.¹ Elizabeth Patricia Cameron is also recorded as Aunt Bea.¹ She married William Justin Beauchamp Cameron.¹

     Ewan Cameron of Dawnie or Glen Nevis was the son of Allan Cameron. In 1746 knighted by Prince Charles after the battle of Falkirk. He led the Cameron Clan in the last disastrous Stuart rising.²

     Ewen Cameron was the son of Donald Charles Cameron and (?) Cameron of Letterfinlay.¹ Ewen Cameron married Johanna MacIvor, daughter of Rev. Colin MacIvor.² A sheep-farmer in Glenelg and subsequently in Tallisker, Skye.¹

     Ewen Cameron M.D. was born in Castle Orgueil, Jersey.² He was the son of John Cameron and Isabella Kennedy.¹ In 1849 he was in Berbice for a sent a sample of Urari (curare) poison in a gourd to Edinburgh University.³ Ewen Cameron M.D. died s.n.p.¹

     Garfield Cameron married Michael ? Mabel Sissons.¹

     Helen Patricia Cameron was the daughter of William Justin Beauchamp Cameron and Elizabeth Patricia Cameron.¹ Helen Patricia Cameron died unmarried.¹

     Isabella Harriett Cameron was born on 19 July 1845 in Sheldon House, Berbice, British Guiana. She was the daughter of Donald Charles Cameron and Margaret Anne Moore. Isabella Harriett Cameron travelled on 16 October 1853 to Melbourne, Australia; on the S.S. Great Britain.¹ She married James Crombie, son of David Guillan Crombie and Janet Campbell (Jessie) Webster, on 1 December 1869 in the Presbyterian Church, Springsure, Queensland.² Isabella Harriett Cameron died on 3 January 1921 in Oriel at the age of 75 (recorded in the Tree as 20 February 1921).

     James Cameron was the son of Donald Charles Cameron and Margaret Anne Moore.¹ James Cameron died in Victoria in infancy.¹

     Jane Cameron was born in 1854 in Native Creek, Australia.¹ She was the daughter of Donald Charles Cameron and Margaret Anne Moore.¹ Jane Cameron died in infancy.¹

     Jean Catherine Orr Cameron was born on 9 December 1913.¹ She was the daughter of Garfield Cameron and Michael ? Mabel Sissons.² Jean Catherine Orr Cameron married Robert Lundy Grout, son of James Bell Lundy Grout and Helen Buell Kinney, on 14 August 1937 in St. Paul's Church, Knowlton, Quebec.² Jean Catherine Orr Cameron died on 23 May 1996 at the age of 82.¹

     Jephson Beauchamp Cameron was born in 1911.² He was the son of Allan Ewan Cameron and Beatrice Huband-Smith.¹ Jephson Beauchamp Cameron died in 1989.²

     John Cameron was born in 1773 in Dawnie, Kilmany. He was the son of Donald Charles Cameron and (?) Cameron of Letterfinlay. Enlisted in the Cameron Highlanders, he then purchased a commission. He was stationed for a time with the garrison on Jersey, where his two eldest sons were born. Later he retired and took a lease of the farm of Lundavra in Lochaber and subsequently of Lianassie in Kintail. The Australian Dictionary of Biography notes that he was with the 79th Highlanders at Waterloo.^1,2,3 John Cameron married Isabella Kennedy. John Cameron died on 30 April 1853 in Lianassie, Kintail.²

     John Cameron was born on 13 March 1847 in Berbice, British Guiana.² He was the son of Donald Charles Cameron and Margaret Anne Moore.¹ John was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and at Geelong Church of England Grammar School, where 'I never did any good beyond being a good fighter'. He began work as a jackeroo in 1859; in 1861-63, with the Crombie brothers, the Camerons and their flocks pushed northwest from Inverell, New South Wales, to Barcaldine, Queensland. After eighteen months at Barcaldine Downs, John became overseer of Alice Downs and subsequently manager of Wilby. When the Camerons, Crombies, T. S. Mort J. T. Allan and Herbert Garrett formed a partnership embracing an empire of seven huge runs, John entered the firm. The partnership was dissolved in 1877 but he retained, with his brother-in-law James Crombie, Kensington Downs and Greenhills. The agreement with Crombie disintegrated in 1881 and Cameron and his mother kept Kensington Downs of 625 square miles (1619 km2), 62 miles (100 km) north-east of Longreach. He lived there until 1891 when he retired to Brisbane.

Cameron was more a representative of the second phase of Queensland pastoral pioneering, when capital and managerial skill generally superseded physical endurance, luck and personal persistence as prerequisites for survival. Yet he experienced many early vicissitudes and hardships which shortened his life: he once spent several days in the branches of a gum (a marooned pastoral mariner) during a terrible Dawson River flood. He took pains to avoid the homicidal problems of squatter-Aboriginal confrontation.

Cameron's 'peculiar' attitudes towards Chinese labour - 'He has always contended that the Chinese gardener or cook is unnecessary and Kensington Downs has been always for a White Australia' - blunted Labor opposition to both his person and his business interests. Cameron, whose hospitality, courtesy and essential fairness demonstrated both his generous tolerance and strong personality, survived long enough to receive the respect of western Labor politicians who had sprung from the same genre. George Kerr remarked in 1904: 'The member poses, and has a right to pose, as a good and kind employer'. In 1891, however, Cameron had fulminated that 'in the fight for a principle (free contract) he was prepared to lose every sheep that he possessed'.

On 15 April 1889 Cameron convened a meeting of employers at Barcaldine 'to consider the advisableness of forming a Union for the prevention of strikes and the amicable settlement of disputes which may arise'. This body subsequently became the Central Queensland Pastoral Employers' Association: Cameron was its president in 1893-1908. On an intercolonial level he helped organize, co-ordinate and direct the pastoralists' campaign against the labour thrust of the 1890s, an activity which quietly paralleled, and historically may well have been as effective as, the 'new unions' and the colonial Labor parties. In 1897-1908 he was president of the United Pastoralists' Association of Queensland during a critical period of labour, economic and climatic problems.

Helping the conservative coalition pick up the pieces following the Queensland National Bank disasters (he served as pastoral valuer and consultant to the 1896-97 committee, which revealed unpalatable truths), Cameron became part of that brief revival and consolidation of Queensland quasi-capitalism which followed the depression of the 1890s, when he was hard hit. He was wise enough to avoid purchasing pastoral freeholds: 'I would sell land to anybody who would be fool enough to buy it', he declared in 1904, 'I do not own an acre in Western Queensland; and I do not wish to own any'. But he was forced to rely heavily on bank and agency credit: in 1896 he mortgaged Kensington Downs's 113,117 sheep to Dalgety's the Mercantile Bank and the Commercial Bank of Australia.

Cameron survived the depression, only to suffer a serious set-back during the great drought and wool-price slump of 1900-02. Yet his probity, political influence and individual solvency enabled him to replace the old, discredited entrepreneurs as chairman of Morehead Ltd, and as a director of the Queensland National Bank, the Darling Downs and Western Lands Co., the Queensland Meat Export and Agency Co. Ltd, the Union Trustee Co. and the Alliance Insurance Co.

Elected to the Legislative Assembly for Mitchell in 1893 as a central separationist, free trader and stern retrenches, Cameron used his qualities of honesty, shrewdness and even temper to influence coalition ministers. Declining office, he worked for the pastoral interest behind the scenes. He spoke infrequently but always to the point, preferring to argue the pastoralists' case for effective wage-reduction and voluntary arbitration in public, while privately urging the government to smash the shearing strikes of 1891 and 1894. These tactics were successful and Cameron never attracted the opprobrium heaped on Tozer and Sir Samuel Griffith

His defeat by Labor candidates in 1896 (Mitchell) and 1899 (Barcoo) signified that the squatters' position was now electorally hopeless in western Queensland. Having declared publicly in 1895 that 'I have never believed in the principle of one man one vote, and nothing will ever convince me that men should have equal voting rights', he was clearly an anachronism. But he remained undaunted. Deeply disturbed by the pastoral industry's plight, Cameron re-entered parliament for Brisbane North in 1901 and, with his co-member E. B. Forrest, was never seriously challenged. Ill health compelled his retirement in February 1908.

A staunch Philp adherent, he was prepared to be flexible if it would help the pastoralists. By 1905 he was even conceding the right of women as well as pastoral workers to vote, although the idea of an income tax remained particularly obnoxious. Cameron never denied that he entered parliament as a squatters' delegate to retrieve a disastrous situation. Parliament, he said, 'must revive the great primary industries of the State so that all else would flourish'.'The city', he declared in 1904, 'was only the great emporium, the great mart where primary products were distributed, where buyer and seller most easily met. Without a prosperous back-country, the city would languish'. Most Queenslanders agreed with him. Although he failed to extend pastoral leases and revise pastoral classifications in the Pastoral Holdings New Leases Act of 1901, Cameron worked for thirty amendments in a bill of sixteen clauses. His tactics succeeded in extracting from the government more generous provisions than they were initially prepared to concede. In 1902 he effectively used the Queensland financial lobby in London and skilfully conducted a model campaign that generated light for the squatters rather than heat amongst the politicians. This was his apogee. The (Sir Arthur) Morgan ministry was less sympathetic. In March 1904, replying to Cameron's presentation of a memorial by 400 leading squatters pleading for further relief, Morgan was unsympathetic and allowed only some minor concessions.

Cameron visited Japan for his health in 1906 and never again spoke in the assembly. His political career concluded on a bizarre note which indicated that the shape of Queensland politics had decisively altered. In 1905 he had published the text of a land tax bill in the Daily Mail, alleging that he had found it on the floor of a room in Parliament House. It is probable that the text had been leaked to Cameron, whose desire to injure a Liberal government and defeat a land tax momentarily got the better of him. The tactic backfired and the conservative rump of a dozen or so members was tactically outmanoeuvred by the government. Cameron's declining health had undoubtedly affected his judgment. John Cameron married his first wife Sarah Annie Lodge, daughter of Oliver Lodge, on 18 April 1877 at St. John's Church, Mudgee, New South Wales.^3,4 John Cameron married Louise Christine Heussler, daughter of Hon. J.C. Heussler, on 27 December 1899 in Maida Hill Presbyterian Church.⁵ John Cameron died on 29 June 1914 at the age of 67 After a long illness Cameron died of intestinal neoplasm at his home Avoca, Albion, Brisbane. He was buried in the Toowong cemetery with ceremonies befitting an elder of the Presbyterian Church and the chief of the Caledonian and Burns clubs.⁶

     John Cameron was the son of John Cameron and Sarah Annie Lodge.¹

     John Cameron M.D. was the son of John Cameron and Isabella Kennedy.¹ John Cameron M.D. died in Berbice, West Indies, unmarried.¹

     Kenneth Beauchamp Cameron was the son of William Justin Beauchamp Cameron and Elizabeth Patricia Cameron.¹ Kenneth Beauchamp Cameron married Eileen Mary Hooper.¹ In July 1943 Kenneth Beauchamp Cameron and Eileen Mary Hooper was living in Thallon, Queensland.²

     Margaret Anne Cameron was born on 11 December 1850 in Berbice, British Guiana.² She was the daughter of Donald Charles Cameron and Margaret Anne Moore.¹ Margaret Anne Cameron married William Crombie, son of David Guillan Crombie and Janet Campbell (Jessie) Webster, on 22 July 1874 in the Presbyterian Church, Ipswich, Queensland.¹ Margaret Anne Cameron died on 20 December 1885 in Greenhills, Muttaburra, Queensland, at the age of 35 and buried in Greenhills Graveyard.^1,3

     Margaret Anne Cameron was born say September 1884. She was the daughter of Donald Charles Kennedy Cameron and Arabella Adelaide Anita Cameron.¹ Margaret Anne Cameron died on 21 January 1886 in Uanda "aged 1 year and 9 months."²

     Percival Lodge Cameron was the son of John Cameron and Sarah Annie Lodge.¹

     Richard Cameron was the son of Kenneth Beauchamp Cameron and Eileen Mary Hooper.¹ Richard Cameron died on 24 December 1941 killed whilst serving in the R.A.A.F. as a sergeant during the Battle of Britain.¹ He was commemorated in 1953 on Panel 62. Runnymede Memorial.²

     Vera Annie Cameron was the daughter of John Cameron and Sarah Annie Lodge.¹ Vera Annie Cameron died unmarried.¹

     Westgart Moore Cameron was the son of John Cameron and Louise Christine Heussler.¹ Westgart Moore Cameron died before 1914 in infancy.¹

     William Beauchamp Cameron was born circa 1917.² He was the son of Kenneth Beauchamp Cameron and Eileen Mary Hooper.¹ William Beauchamp Cameron died on 2 July 1943 killed whilst serving in the R.A.A.F as a Flight Sergeant.^1,2 He is commemorated on the Sydney Memorial for those with no known grave. Those recorded on this memorial mostly died in the S.E. Pacific theatre of war.²

     William Henry Moore Cameron was born in 1861.² He was the son of Donald Charles Cameron and Margaret Anne Moore.¹ William Henry Moore Cameron died in December 1916 in Newport News, Virginia, from pneumonia whilst en-route from London to New Zealand on the British steamer Rotorrua. He had been to London on business conected with supplying the British Government with beef.³

     William Justin Beauchamp Cameron married Elizabeth Patricia Cameron, daughter of Donald Charles Cameron and Margaret Anne Moore.¹

     [5 daughters] Cameron was the daughter of Donald Charles Cameron and (?) Cameron of Letterfinlay.¹

     (unknown) Cameron was the daughter of Sir Donald Charles Cameron KCMG, DSO and Evelyn Stella Jardine.¹ (unknown) Cameron died before 1960.¹