Biography
Donald Cameron was born 15 September 1835 in Fort William, Highland, Scotland, United Kingdom to Hugh Cameron (c1799-1877) and Mary Jane McColl (c1808-1839) and died 17 November 1896 West Wyalong, New South Wales, Australia of unspecified causes. He married Mary Ann Beattie (1846-1886) 21 June 1864 in "Maryvale", Cotta Walla, New South Wales, Australia.
In 1866, Donald Cameron, a farmer from Scotland, and Mary Ann Beattie, decided to move to Wagga Wagga to join her parents, the Beatties, who had moved there from Penrith, New South Wales in 1866.
He obtained a job as a station manager at a property at Cowabbie, 100 km north of Wagga. A year later, he left that job to become a carpenter, building homesteads on properties in Wagga, Coolamon, Junee, Temora and West Wyalong for the next 10 years.
He purchased land and built his own house at Brucedale on the Junee Road, where they had a permanent home.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Mary Jean Cameron (1865-1962) | 16 August 1865 Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia | 2 December 1962 Kings Cross, New South Wales, Australia | William Alexander Gilmore (1866-1945) |
| Hugh James Cameron (1866-1935) | |||
| John Alexander Cameron (1869-1949) | |||
| Isabella Rose Cameron (1870-1934) | 28 October 1870 Houlaghan's Creek, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 10 April 1934 "Moree", Bayview street, Bronte, New South Wales, Australia | Wallace Webster (1853-1936) |
| Donald George Cameron (1872-1902) | |||
| Charles Stuart Cameron (1876-1922) | |||
| Emily Maye Cameron (1878-1879) | |||
| Allan Gordon Cameron (1880-1888) | |||
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