Various creators Cameron Family Archive. [Archive] (Unpublished)
Summary
The Cameron Family headed by Donald Charles and Mary Emily (née Brassington) were originally sugar plantation managers in the latter half of the 18th century in British Guiana. They moved to Victoria then Western Queensland to run sheep stations.
John Cameron (1847-1914), pastoralist, company director and politician, a son of Donald and Mary, was born on 13 March 1847 at New Amsterdam, British Guiana, and married Margaret Anne Moore. Their son, Sir Donald Charles Cameron GCMG KBE (1872–1948), was a British colonial governor. He was the second governor of the British mandate of Tanganyika, and later the governor of Nigeria.
The Archive includes family history documents, the letterbook of John Cameron for the period 1877-1896, and some records of the Kensington Downs (1903, 1913-1916), Caledonia (1908-1913) and Glen Nevis (Aramac) (1920-1935) Stations. This collection of family papers is held as a microfilm copy in the microform collection.
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Additional Information
Special Collection items may be used on the Library premises by visiting the appropriate Reading Rooms during opening hours. Digital copies of selected items from this Archive will be made available through the repository as copyright or other restrictions allow.
The Cameron Family Album is located in the NQ Photographic Collection. The photos are predominantly of the Kensington Downs and Caledonia homesteads.
A plan of Kensington Downs homestead and some comment on the construction appears on pages 75 to 77 in C.R. Sumner's M.A. thesis, Environmental Influences on Early Domestic Architecture in North Queensland, 1975. [Available for reference from the JCU Townsville Campus Library]
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