This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Minchin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EgC.2ACE/10049 Message Board Post: Looking for information on James Campbell who came to Tasmania in 1835 from Leith, have a letter from Portree Manse (Church of Scotland) in 1835 reference that he was there for approx 5 years prior to 1835. In the letter he was claimed he was a "descended of very respectable parents" so there is a possibly that his parents or he was born in the area but have not information to link