Julia succumbed to influenza and bronchitis on the 23rd of December 1918 at Ravenswood, Causewayhead, Stirling aged thirty-three. Her grave is located in the nearby Churchyard of Logie Old Kirk. She rests in a familial lair which includes her paternal grandparents, parents and some of her siblings.
Julia was born in Stirling on the 29th of November 1886 to joiner Alexander and Julia Sr (nee Moir). She was their fifth child and second daughter. When the Census was taken in 1891, Julia Jr aged four was not residing in the family home at 19 Spittal Street. Instead she was living with her maternal grandparents in the village of Methven to the west of Perth. Ten years later, a fourteen year old Julia was .living in the familial home, by which time her two eldest siblings no longer resided there, meaning that there would be more room.
At some point between 1901 and 1910 the Campbell family relocated to the suburb of Causewayhead. Sadly, Julia Sr died of pancreatic cancer on the 13th of February 1910 aged fifty-five. When the Census was taken the following year, Julia Jr aged twenty-seven still resided at Ravenswood with her father, elder brother Robert, two sisters Janet and Lillias and her youngest brother Alexander Jr.
Like the bulk of households in the United Kingdom, the First World War left its mark on the Campbell family when on the 15th of November 1916 Robert fell in France aged thirty-three.
Julia was unmarried at her death. Like many women of her generation, her boyfriend or even fiance may have been killed on the battlefields or died of wounds later on. Alexander Sr remained at Ravenswood. He died at home from “pulmonary congestion” on the 23rd of November 1929 aged eighty-nine.
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