Sydney Henry Campbell appears to have been born Henry Tabel in Ballarat in 1872. It is not clear why he changed his name but his first two children were born 'Tabells'.

He appears to have been the son of Peter Tabel, who migrated to Australia aboard the Minerva in 1853, along with his elder brother Henry, who was a witness at his wedding, and sister Catharine. His sister went on to New Zealand to be re-united with her fiancee, Emilius Le Roy, who she married in 1855 in Auckland.

Peter Tabel was born at Port St Peter, Guernsey, Channel Islands where his forefathers had lived from at least the 17th century, and was mainly of French blood.

Sydney Henry was shown as Henry Tabell for the birth of his first two children. He was in Ballarat around 1910 to at least 1912, where his parents were still living, moving back to Broken Hill by 1914. He worked in the mines and was a shift supervisor. He was also shown in 1939 as a shopkeeper. He died in 1953 at the age of around 81.

His spouse was Sophia Jane Langley who was born to John Langley and Mary Jane Osborn in the District Of Talunya, South Australia, in 1875.

John Langley's family, whose parents were John and Jane Langley, migrated to Australia on the the 574 ton, three-masted "Punjab". The ship was built in Calcutta in 1847. It departed Southhampton and arrived at Glenelg on 25 May 1855. John was described as a sawyer, a form of farm labouring.

The obituary for Mary Jane read as follows:

"Mrs. Mary Jane Langley, whose death at Terowie occurred recently, at the age of 83 years, had resided in that town 46 years. She arrived from Devonshire at the age of 11 years. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs J.H. Osborn, settled at Gumeracha. Deceased, who was their second daughter, was married to Mr. John Langley, of Kersbrook, in 1865. In 1882 Mrs. Langley travelled with her husband and seven children in a bullock wagon to the Hundred of Wonna, 18 miles west of Terowie, where they started farming. Owing to ill health Mrs.Langley retired from the farm 30 years ago to live in Terowie. During the war, as a member of the Red Cross Society she knit 116 pairs of socks for the soldiers. Last year she became almost blind, and six weeks before her death she fell and broke her hip. She had 12 children, nine of whom still survive: -Mesdames Chamberlain, Martin, Sedgmen, and O'Toole, Mr. F. Langley (Peterborough), Mrs Campbell (Broken Hill), Mr. G. Langley (Terowie), Mr. W. Langley (Spalding), and Mrs A. Keast (Riverton). There are 55 grandchildren, and 38 great-grandchildren."

Sydney Henry Campbell and Sophia Jane Langley had 10 children. One of those, Alma Campbell, married Jack Kelleher.

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