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The Colonial Campbells - A Family History by Colin McDowall Campbell, numbered edition
Added: Sep 27, 2026

The Colonial Campbells is Colin McDowall Campbell's family history of an early Scots Campbell family in colonial Tasmania. 


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Biography

Biographies and memoirs of the people who shaped Tasmania – settlers, pioneers, convicts, politicians, farmers, mariners and ordinary Tasmanians whose life stories were written down. Many of these are self-published or small-run family histories that are genuinely hard to find elsewhere, alongside more widely published biographies of well-known Tasmanian figures.

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