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            Marion (Aunt “Min” Taylor) Campbell

Aunt Min or Minnie, as she was called in the Family, did not like her name, Marion, according to Cousin Sydney Holyoke1, who wrote in his story of Beechwood – “True to her straight forward nature, she did something about it by going to the parish register at St.Peter’s and substituted the Name Minnie”
She was born Aug. 19, 1862 the last of 10 children of Colin Campbell III and Phoebe Ann Seely (Sometimes Seeley) “On shipboard, returning home from the continent she met a young Englishman, going to a parish in Newfoundland and eventually married. She moved with him to Newfoundland and after a few years in that Province “Uncle Robert”, (Robert Holland Taylor) got a Parish in a suburb of Baltimore. After his death she moved back to her original home at Beechwood, Nova Scotia.”1
“Uncle Robert and Aunt Min had 3 children Cuthbert (Uncle “Cuth”), Wilfred (died young) and Dorothy (“Dot”)

  With F.Marshall Montgomery

Cuthbert Robert Holland Taylor was educated at the Royal Military College and spent his working life in the RCN. From Midshipman to Rear Admiral he served in both WW1 and WW2. He was the Admiral in charge of all the convoys out of Halifax during WW2. He retired in 1949 and lived in Chester. I remember visiting with him with my Dad as a young boy. His power of command was so strong I was afraid to speak.
“He was travelling to Weymouth, with his wife (Evelyn Jones- “Aunt Evie”) and just as he reached Weymouth he felt ill, pulled over and died at the wheel of his car.” 1

Wilfred was in the Airforce in WW2 and was killed in 1940.

Dorothy (known as “Dot” in the Family), married Major Stuart Cunynghame. He was the 3rd son of Sir Francis George Thurlow Cunynghame 9th Bt. of Milncraig, and Jessica Bloxsome,2 and spent his active life in command of the native troops of the White Rajah of Sarawak.
After his retirement, the Family settled in England.  Sud Holyoke remembers:
“Dorothy was ten years my junior, but as a very small child, I still remember her flying legs about Beechwood, and even at such a tender age her ability to make up and tell stories. In England to pass the time Dorothy, started to write novels and had quite a following in British circles, though I think none of her books were ever published in the US. I only read one of her books and found it pleasant reading”1
More on cousins, Aunts, Uncles, (sometimes mixed up) and all the stories of the Campbell Family that I can Find.

Ian M. Campbell – Mar, 2019

Ref. – 1. Sydney Holyoke’s many letters to the Family.

           2. “The Peerage.com” M, #330981 

           3.Ian M. Campbell’s files and photos of the Campbell Family