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.
Samuel Lamont sailed on the Prince of Wales in 1813 with the colonists bound for the Selkirk Settlement. He was a 22-year-old millwright from Islay who had been hired as a contract servant to build a grist mill at Red River. Due to an outbreak of typhoid on the ship, the passengers were landed at Churchill Fort rather than York Factory and remained the winter at a makeshift camp near Churchill. Samuel was among those who made the well-known trek to York Factory in the spring of 1814 and then continued by boat to Red River.
Hugh Gibson, born about 1790 in Orkney, came to Rupert’s Land as a servant of the Hudson’s Bay Company. According to family lore, he was one of the HBC boatmen who brought the 1812 settlers from York Factory to Red River. In 1826 he married Angelique (Ann) Chalifoux and they settled at Red River. The couple appears on the 1827 Red River census, no children. By the 1843 census, the family includes six children. The baptismal registers show Isabella, Margaret, Francis, William, Fanny, Ann (died in 1841, aged 3) and Jane. A daughter Barbara was born in 1843 although not included in the census, and the 1870 Manitoba census shows a daughter Elizabeth born about 1852. Hugh does not appear on this census.
Andrew Setter was born in Westray, Orkney about 1777. He came to Rupert’s Land with the HBC in 1798 and served at York Factory, the Saskatchewan District and the Upper Red River District. His ‘country wife’ was Margaret Spence, daughter of James Spence and Nostisho (Nestichio) Batt. Andrew and Margaret were formally married on 28 June 1821 at Beaver Creek, by HBC chaplain John West. They had four children baptised the same day. In 1823, Andrew left the employ of the HBC and moved with his family to the Selkirk Settlement, taking up land at Park’s Creek (St. Paul). Six more children were born at the settlement. The family later moved west to Poplar Point on the Assiniboine, where Andrew farmed until his death in 1870.
James Settee was born at Split Lake (Manitoba), of Swampy Cree and British ancestry. There is no documentation of his birth, but the year is estimated to have been between the years 1809 and 1816. In 1824, James left Split Lake and went to Red River under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society. He went to the Missionary Society School and was baptized in 1827.