The first of this Campbell family to arrive in Australia was John Archibald Campbell Snr. He was born in 1802 in Glasgow and arrived in Van Diemen's Land from Edinburgh in 1835 on the “Betsey”. He then worked on the same ship as a doctor when it went whaling in the South Seas. In 1836 he settled in Sydney where he had a Druggist store in George St opposite the old Police Station and Jail. In 1838 he was appointed a Surgeon to the Sydney Dispensary.
His wife Christina Pillans and their two sons John Archibald Jun (bap 1827 Dunfermline, Fife) and Benjamin Pillans (bap Edinburgh 1831), joined him in 1839.
Source: Campbell family history articles researched and written by Barbara Gurney. Photos from Barbara Gurney.
