Like their name itself, frequently interpreted as Cam-beul, `wry-mouth,` this forthrightly ambitious clan claims origin both Celtic and Norman, though the accounts vary. One relates how Malcolm of the clan anciently named O Duibdne or MacDiarmid, went as a widower to Norman France, where he married an heiress of the Beauchamp family and adopted that name. A son Archibald accompanied the Conqueror in 1066, and became founder to several English lines, these ringing changes on the name, as Beauchamp to Beecham, Campobello, Kemble. Hugo de Morville, David`s l`s High Constable and assistant feudaliser, married Beatrix de Campobello and introduced Campbells as vassals on his Ayrshire lands. Of their main stem, rising to its dukedom of Argyll, we hear of them in possession at Lochow (Loch Awe) after Alexander ll`s conquest of Argyll. This need not contradict the other tradition of Lochow as O Duibbne territory from long earlier. It would clinch with the Campbell aptitude for backing the winning authority, and with their later royal commission to suppress the refactory MacDonalds of 1614-7 and oust them from Kintyre. The troublesome MacGregors of Perthshire had just previously been treated to a similar policing. And Highland memories run deep. Among many Campbell branches, that of Breadalbane illustrates their aptitude, for successful marriages, being begun by the 14th- century match with the Glenorchy heiress. Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) was author of many rousing ballads, `Lochiel`s Warning,` `Lord Ullin`s Daughter,` `Battle of the Baltic,` etc. Septs: BALLANTYNE BANNATYNE BURNES BURNESS BURNS CONNOCHIE CONOCHIE DENOON DENUNE DONACHIE DONAGHY FISHER HAWES HAWS HAWSON ISAAC ISAACS IVERSON KELLAR KELLER KISSACK KISSOCK LORNE LOUDEN LOWDON LOWDEN LOUDON MACCOLM MACCOMBE MACCONACHIE MACCONCHIE MACCONNECHY MACCURE MACDERMID MACDERMONT MACDIARMID MACDONACHIE MACELLAR MACELVIE MACEUR MACEVER MACGIBBON MACGLASRISH MACGUBBIN MACISAAC MACIVER MACIVOR MACKELLAR MACKELVIE MACKERLICH MACKERLIE MACKESSACK MACKESSOCK MACKISSOCK MACKIVER MACLAWS MACLEHOSE MACLIVER MACNICHOL MACNICOL MACNIVEN MACNOCAIRD MACONACHIE MACORAN MACPHEDRAN MACQUAKER MACTAUSE MACTAVISH MACTHOMAS MACURE MACVICAR OCHILTREE ORR PATERSON PINKERTON TAWESON TAWSE THOMAS THOMPSON THOMSON URE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scottish Surnames some showing Clan or Sept connection and approximate District or Century earliest known in Scotland. Information from the Revised Second Edition "Scots Kith and Kin". Sept: A Division of a Family, especially a Division of a Clan.