ROBERT CAMPBELL-20414

Robert Campbell, his wife Ann (also spelled Anne/Anna) and their son Robert sailed for the Selkirk Settlement on the Prince of Wales in 1819. They were among a group of Scottish settlers who boarded the ship at Gravesend, England.[1]Robert was 28 years old, his wife 24, and the young boy 17 months. Robert was designated as a labourer.

Robert and his wife would have seven more children born at the settlement. By the 1830s, many of the Scots were becoming dissatisfied with Red River, particularly its governance under the HBC and the lack of the promised Presbyterian minister. In 1835 the Campbell family was among the first group of Scottish settlers to leave Red River for the U.S. Midwest. They settled in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, where another son was born in 1837.

[1] This is the same ship which the family of Neil Livingstone boarded in Stromness. The ship also carried 20 German settlers and Lieutenant Franklin (later Sir John Franklin).