Donald Campbell, last Roman Catholic Abbot of the Abbey of Coupar in Angus, was the 4th and youngest son of Archibald, 2nd Earl of Argyle by his wife Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir John Stewart of Derueley, 1st Earl of Lenox.  He was born in 1492 and died in 1562, and is buried in the churchyard of Bendochy near Coupar Angus.  He had 5 sons, to each of whom he garve an estate out of the Church lands, viz: Balgersho, Arthurstone, Keithock, Deuhead and Croonan.  In the church of Bendochy there are buried Nicol Campbell of Keithock who died in 1587 aged 70, and David Campbell of Deuhead.  There is no trace of burial of the other sons.

Whether the above be the case or not, it is certain that Abbot Campbell distributed a large part of the Abbey lands among his relatives and kinsmen.  He is said to have been in sympathy with the Reformers at the time of the Reformation

Note....Lord Strath Eden and Campbell claim to be descended from Nicol Campbell a son of the Abbot. (See life of John, Lord Campbell, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, by his daughter, The Hon. J.W. Hardcastle, London, 1881)

Colin Campbell of Croonan, son of the Abbot

George Campbell of Croonan married Elizabeth Beatome 10 July, 1601.

Alexander Campbell of Croonan died 1647

George Campbell of Croonan died 1670

George Campbell sold estate before 1700...died without issue

                                            Second Son

Alexander Campbell of Balgersho married Elizabeth Campbell, daughter of Patrick Campbell 16th June, 1629

Alexander Campbell of Balgersho died 1705....Services to his father and to his grandson (Great-grandfather, George Campbell of Croonan 1658)......Registered Arms 1672-73 as grandson of a second son of Croonan Alexander Campbell married Christina Campbell 23 Oct. 1691

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John Campbell of Dubhall married Catherine Spalding (Sasine of 8th part of Keithick and Teinds, recorded 31st Oct. 1634)

John Campbell of Dubhall

Alexander Campbell of Dubhall

1692 Christina

1694 Janet

1696 Alexander - died without issue

1698 Elizabeth

1702 Jean

1705 Margaret

Alexander Campbell of Dubhall, son of John Campbell of Dubhall, married Jean Hallyburton.  He was served heir to his father in the 8th part of Keithick Teinds in 1688...in 1698 he is designed 'Alexander Campbell in Cougar'

Teinds, in Scotland are Tithes. A tenth part of the produce of lands was early claimed by the clergy as their right, and gradually came to be, by law, appropriated to their maintenance. Teinds came to be held by lay-men under grants made by churchmen before the reformation. Such grants were annulled in 1564 unless confirmed by the crown, but confirmation was easily obtained. If the grants were not confirmed, the teinds fell to the crown, and so did those still in the hands of the church at the reformation. The latter were conferred, after the reformation, upon Lords of Erection; while some teinds which were payable to the Bishops of the Reformed Church fell to the crown on the abolition of the episcopacy, and in many cases were granted out to subjects.
Under arrangements made in the reign of Charles I., and ratified by Acts of 1633 and 1690, teinds which were formerly levied in kind came to be regarded as a fixed burden on land, subject to be redeemed or purchased by the owner of the land, and when unredeemed to be payable according to a fixed valuation. After the reformation the reformed clergy only obtained a small portion of the teinds, but the stipends of the parochial clergy of the Church of Scotland are still payable out of them, and unexhausted teinds afford a fund from which minister's stipends may be augmented.
The teind court, which has jurisdiction with regard to all questions connected with teinds, consists of the judges of the Inner House of the Court of Session, and the second junior lord ordinary.

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Children of Alexander Campbell and Jean Hallyburton

Helen 1684

George 1687*

Margaret 1690

Katherine 1695 

* George....Married in1720.  He is designed George Campbell in Coupar and thereafter Drover in Coupar

* Children of George

Margaret 1720

David 1722 **

Twins unamed 1724

Jean 1726

Katherine 1730

**David Campbell, eldest son of George Campbell was born at Coupar on 28th January 1722.  He married Susan or Susanna Watson, who died at Coupar Angus on 9th May 1801 aged 80 years. He is designed Drover and later Merchant in Coupar Angus.  In 1788 he purchased from George Wilson "The 5 1/2 acres of land commonly called the 'Market Croft' of Coupar.  The subjects are in the center of the town and he fened out portions of them a various dates.  There is a street running through the subjects called 'Campbell Street'. 

David Campbell died on 29th January 1789 and is buried in the parish churchyard at Coupar Angus, where his widow was afterwards also interred. The superiorities of the fens at the Market Croft and the part of the subjects still unfened, passed at his death to his eldest son, General David Campbell, who in 1806 erected a tombstone in the churchyard to the memory of his father and mother.  The following is a copy of the inscription.

                                                                   1806

To the memory of David Campbell of Coupar who died 29th January, 1789 aged 67 years and Susan Watson his spouse died 9th May 1801, Aged 80 years. This monument was erected by his eldest son, Colonel David Campbell.  There are also buried here the 3 nieces of the above.

Jessie Inches died 5th December 1874

Mary Inches died 6th April 1877

Susan Inches died 12th October 1889.......All born at Cardeau, near Meigle and died at Keith Park near Blairgowlie

Children of David Campbell and Susan Watson 

Margaret 1745

David 1st November 1747 - 29 January 1789***

Elizabeth 1749...married?...died?

Susanna born 26th April 1751 - died 1754

George born 23 July 1753 - believed to have died

Isobel born 1755

Margaret 12 February 1758 - died in infancy

James born 3rd Feb. 1760 (In register of bapbisms it is recorded that his mother's name is Susanna Watson)- Died 20 Jan.1813

Susanna born 1761 died 1767

Janet born 1763 died 1764  

Amelia born 1765 - believed to have died in infancy

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***David Campbell, eldest son of David Campbell and Susanna (Susan) Watson married Mary Lyon Playfair, 4th daughter of James Playfair, Principal of the University of St. Andrews, and Margaret Lyon.  She was born in 1780 and died 6t August 1809, she is interred in the Cathedral Burial Ground, St. Andrews.  In a tree of the Playfair famiy (1885) she is called Margaret, but this is apparently an error.  She seems to have afterwards assumed the name of 'Lyon', her mother's name.

***David Campbell was born at Coupar Angus on 1st November 1747. He entered the service of the Honorable East India Company in 1771 as a cadet in the Madras stablishment, was appointed Ensign in the same year in the 1st Caruatic Battalion of Sepoys (now the 61st Prince of Wales's Own Pioneers), Lieutenant in 1778, Captain in 1784, Colonel 1792, Major 1794 and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1796. In 1799 he commanded his old regiment (the 1st) at the siege and capture of Seringapataw.  In 1805 he came home on furlough in 1809 he was promoted to Major General and in 1814 Lieutenant-General. In 1806 on his return to Scotland he erected a tombstone in the Parish Churchyard in Coupar Angus to the memory of his father and mother. In the same year he obtained a Grant of Aires dated 6th November 1806 and Heir Male Representative of Alexander Campbell of Balgaisha.  In 1809 he purchased from Government the Priory of St. Andrews and erected the existing buildings for himself.

The estate of Williamston in the Parish of Madderty and County of Perth was purchased by David Campbell from the Trustees of Lord Lynedoch in 1815. In 1822 he completed titile to the subjects of Coupar Angus.  The instrument of Sasine dated 19th October 1822, and recorded in the Particular Register of Sasines for the County of Perth on 22nd October 1822 of the above subjects is in favour of General David Campbell of Williamston, residing at St. Andrews and follows upon an extract Registered Deed of Settlement dated 3rd September 1788 by David Campbell Fenar in Coupar Angus, then deceased, in favour of the said general David Campbell whereby the said David Campbell disposed to Susan Watson, his wife in liferent, and to David Campbell his son therein denominated Captain in the Service of the East India Company, then General David Campbell of Williamston, whom failing to David Inches, eldest son of marriage betwixt Thomas Inches, Merchant in Coupar Angus, and Elizabeth Campbell eldest daughter of the said deceased David Campbell.

The Disposition of 1826 in favour of David Anderson was signed by General Campbell at the Priory, St. Andrews on 5th January 1826, before David Bruce, his coachman and John Saunders his gardener. In 1815 he granted a Precept of Clare Coustat as part of the subjects in favour of Mary Brodie in which he is described as Lieutenant-General David Campbell in the service of the East India Company as immediate lawful superior of subjects which "were disposed by the deceast david Campbell, Merchant in Coupar Angus, my father".  The deed was signed at St. Andrews by General Campbell on 16th November 1815 before William Crow his gardener and William Christie his butler.

In the Edinburgh Evening Courant of Saturday, 2nd February, 1828 there is a notice of the death of Lieutenant-General David Campbell of Williamston, who died at the Priory, St. Andrews of 27th January 1828 aged 81.