Campbell Family History
- Campbell Name Meaning
- Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked’, ‘bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. The surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp. In New England documents, Campbell sometimes occurs as a representation of the French name Hamel.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 14,212,398 Historical Documents with Campbell on Ancestry
- 4,143,752 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,109,615 Census and Voter Lists
- 548,284 Military Records
- 485,658 Immigration Records
- 5,925,089 Member Trees
Ready to discover your family story?
Simply start with yourself and we'll do the searching for you.
Number of Campbell families
 1,926 - 3,849  643 - 1,925 |
 1 - 642  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Campbell families
|
5,587 - 11,171 1,863 - 5,586 |
1 - 1,862 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Campbell census records
You can see how Campbell families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
from the New York Passengers List
Click on a place to view Campbell immigration records
The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Campbell families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the New York Passenger Lists
Click on a circle in the chart to view Campbell emigration records
You can find out when most of the Campbell families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Click on a circle in the chart to view Campbell emigration records
You can find out when most of the Campbell families immigrated to Australia. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 UK Census Data
Campbell census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Campbell ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Campbells fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.
×