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From: "Roy A. Derrick" <>
Subject: Campbells in Ireland
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 22:25:10 -0600 (CST)


I see there has been plenty of interest on the List lately about Campbells
in Ireland.

"The Book of Ulster Surnames" by Robert Bell (The Blackstaff Press Limited,
Belfast, 1988) has a page and one-half Campbell entry. It says, it part:

"Campbell is an extremely popular and widespread name in Ulster, Nothing
can illustrate this better than the report of the Irish registry general
for the year 1890. In that one year there were 349 Campbells born in
Ireland and 279 of these were born in Ulster. Campbell was then the
thirty-first most common name in Ireland and fifth in Ulster, third in
Down, fourth in Armagh, seventh in each of counties Tyrone, Antrim and
Derry and thirteenth in Donegal. Not all these Campbells were of Scottish
descent and of those who are, not all are Protestant Planters by origin."

Since it is possible that my Campbells were so-called "Scotch-Irish" I was
also interested to discover coverage of the Scotch-Irish question in a book
called "The Londonderry Heirs." It seems to have been published privately
in 1976 by J.M. Murphy (Black Printing Co. Ltd., Middleton, NS, Canada).

Roy A. Derrick
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

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