"Cameron country is traditionally in the mainland areas of southwest Inverness-shire, and north mainland Argyll, but it is interesting that Blacu's published map of Mull identifies the island as one which "lyeth ovir against Lochaber". To Timothy Pont, the minister who supplied most of the topographic information for Blacu's map, Lochaber, home of the Camerons was a hop, skip and jump from Mull in the days when all communications were by sea, and many Camerons must have hopped from Lochaber and Morvern to Mull in the 18th century, mainly after the Jacobite rebellion in which so many Camerons played a part. There were Camerons in Mull long before this, for in a court case in Inveraray in 1711 about herring assize duties, evidence was given by John Cameron in Druimfin and another John Cameron in Achnacroish. Hector Cameron was a tenant in Kinloch, at the head of Loch Scridan in 1779, and Duncan Cameron was a twenty-six-year-old merchant in Saorphin the same year. Angus Cameron in Bunessan aged 40 in 1779, was a grasskeeper (which meant he watched that cattle didn't stray over unfenced land into neighbouring properties) with two young sons, Donald and Robert. Knocknafenaig, between Bunessan and Uisken, had Camerons in the 1770s whose descendants multiplied and produced three families of Camerons in this small township in the 1841 census. Most of the Knocknafenaig people left in the 1850s, and again in 1865, for Bruce County Ontario, where Camerons can be identified in the Port Elgin cemetery. Uisken and Tir Fhearagain, Knockvologan and Iona all had considerable families of Camerons in the 1841 census. A contingent in Laggan, near Lochbuie, and in Croggan nearby seems to have disappeared by mid-19th century. Indeed, the earlier, 18th century Mull Camerons, apart from the Ross of Mull ones, disappear from the censuses, and a new breed of Camerons comes in to take their place." (Mull Family Names for Ancestor Hunters; Jo Currie)


A recent history of Mull mentions the Camerons of Mull;

The 1716 Disarming
“On the Ross of Mull, Stonefield’s clerk recorded two clan names that were uncommon in Mull and not associated with Iona. One was Cameron. The only Cameron name listed was that of John Cameron at Knocknafenaig, who was shown not to be a rebel or have a weapon. The other was McDuffie…Some of his and also Cameron’s descendants are mentioned briefly in the following chapters. Those living at Knocknafenaig and Kilviceeun were listed as follows:
Knocknafenaig
John Cameron   not a rebel
John Beaton a rebel had a sword and a gun
John McLean  sick
Hector McLean  not a rebel old and sick
Donald McLean  not a rebel
Neil McLean  not a rebel
Neil Beaton  not a rebel”

The 1779 Census of the Argyll Estate
"It is interesting to note the continued presence of another uncommon Mull name of Knocknafenaig. Two Cameron families also resided there. They were descendants of the Cameron who was listed on the 1716 Disarming List of Knocknafenaig. John Cameron, 64, lived with his wife and two daughters. His 35 year old son, John Cameron junior, also lived there with his wife and three year old son. Cameron senior’s daughter Catherine is not named on the 1779 census, but was recorded. She had married mill worker John McDiffie and was listed as his wife.”
(The Naked Clansmen on Mull & Iona, by Ian McPhee)


This would have made the senior John Cameron born in 1715, and the junior John Cameron born in 1744. The three year-old son's name is not mentioned, but he would have been born in about 1776, and is named Hugh in the census.

SOLDIERS IN DONALD CAMERON OF LOCHIEL'S REGIMENT IN 1745