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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| CAMPBELTON | Campbelton Campbelton Campbelton Campbelton Campbelton Campbelton Campbelton Campbelton Campbeltown Campbeltown Campbellton Campbelton Campbelton |
Old Stat [Statistical] Account [New Stat [Statistical] Account Fullarton's Gazetteer County Directory Post Office Directory Glasgow Directory Murray's Time Tables Glencraggan Sheriffs Returns Chalmer's Caledonia Johnstone's Coy. [County] Map Admiralty Chart. Origines Parochiales Oliver & Boyd's Almanac |
"The parish of Campbelton is the seat of the presbytery of Kintyre, which is sometimes, but improperly, spelt Cantyre. The name of the parish is not older than the beginning of the present century, when the town, which makes a part of it, was created a burgh & called Campbelton, from the family name of the Duke of Argyll, the principal proprietor of the town and neighbourhood. For some time before that period, it went by the name of Ceann-loch (Lochhead), which it still retains in the language of the country, and sometimes by the name of Kilkerran, one of the four ancient parishes united in the last century into one. But the oldest name of Campbelton by which a part of it is still known, is Dalruadhain, from its having been the capital of the ancient Scottish or Dalreudinian Kingdom. The parish consists of a large section of the peninsula of Kintyre. It is bounded on the north by the parishes of Killean & Kilchenzie; and Saddell & Skipness NB From the preponderance of authorities quoted, and universal common usage, "Campbelton" should be the form adopted - which is the natural anglicised combination of the two words "Campbell" & "town" - were this not adopted, the form in my opinion should strictly be "Campbelltown" - There are numerous instances in Scotland as Ington, Newton etc sometimes written Ingtown, Newtown T. P. White Lt [Lieutenant] R.E. [Royal Engineers] |
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