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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Argyllshire => Topic started by: Janice M on Sunday 11 December 05 06:35 GMT (UK)
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Looking for any information on the following families:
James Leitch & (?) McAlpin
Married: Sometime before 1761
Children:
James Leitch - June 28, 1761 - Kilmodan
Alexander Leitch - February 1, 1769 - Kilmodan
James Leitch - May 5, 1775 - Kilmodan, Argyll
Andrew Leitch - September 1, 1776 - Kilmodan
Alexander Leitch & Mary Weir
Married: March 28, 1794 - Kilmodan
Children:
Janet Leitch - March 16, 1796 - Kilmodan
Walter Leitch - September 24, 1797 - Kilmodan
James Leitch - April 20, 1800 - Kilmodan
Mary Leitch - July 17, 1802 - Kilmodan
Anne Leitch - August 19, 1804 - Kilmodan
Margaret Leitch - December 4, 1806 - Kilmodan
Mennie Leitch - December 8, 1808 - Kilmodan
Jane Leitch - January 1, 1809 - Kilmodan
Elizabeth Leitch - May 6, 1815 - Kilmodan
James Leitch & Catherine Black
Married: March 6, 1824
Children:
Isabell Leitch - February 4, 1825 - Kilmodan
Mary Leitch - December 3, 1826 - Kilmodan
Alexander Leitch - October 8, 1828 - Kilmodan
John Leitch - September 20, 1830 - Kilmodan
Andrew Leitch - September 24, 1832 - Kilmodan
Janet Leitch - December 26, 1834 - Kilmodan
James Leitch - January 22, 1837 - Kilmodan
Anne Leitch - September 6, 1839 - Kilmodan
Catharine Leitch - February 6, 1842 - Kilmodan
My family hired a researcher several years ago, and this is as far back as he was able to go. Unfortunately, he was unable to find the first name of ggggg-grandmother or marriage date of James Leitch & (?) McAlpin. We have also been unable to find any cemetery listings for the Kilmodan area.
Any help would be appreciated.
Janice
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Hello Janice M,
I've only just joined 'rootschat' and have noticed your posting.
Alexander Leitch and Mary Weir are my 4x great grandparents and it's through their son James and his wife Catherine Black that I hail from. Perhaps we can exchange some information.
Regards, cemetery records, recently I've been told that there is a transcription of the MI's in Kilmodan church (Glendaruel) which are held at the Argyll and Bute Archives. Who have since directed me to the Scottish Genealogist Society in Edinburgh who hold a copy - I've recently emailed them asking for a copy and am still waiting.
Please get in touch if any of this is of interest.
Regards,
Solong.
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Hi
So good to hear from relatives. :)
James Leitch and Catherine Black are my gggg-grandparents. Their son Andrew married Wilhelmina Chambers/Chalmers. They had at least 6 children:
Andrew - April 1, 1859
James - March 15, 1862
Jane - April 7, 1864
John - October 23, 1866
Catherine - December 5, 1870
Agnes - April 23, 1874
Catherine, married David Baskerville in 1891 and had at least 3 children.
David - 1891
James - 1893
Catherine - 1898
James married Mary Bulloch and had 5 children.
My father James Leitch Baskerville was their 3rd child.
My parents moved to Canada from Glasgow, Scotland, in 1952.
I would appreciate any information you can add to this line. Also curious to know which child of James Leitch and Catherine Black you come from. I have information on a few, but not all.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Janice
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Hello Janice,
Thank you for your quick reply. This is all very exciting!!
James Leitch and Catherine Black are my 3x great grandparents (according to my family history software).
Their daughter Anne born 1839 married Peter Mitchell in Kilmodan 1863. I have found so far seven children - though some died in infancy.
Their daughter Isabella McLea Mitchell born 1870 married Robert Mclaws in Glasgow 1895. They had two children Peter and Elizabeth. Elizabeth married David Robertson who were my grandparents. Sadly Elizabeth died in her forties. However, they had three sons to which the eldest John, was my father. Sadly, all three sons have died. I'm an only child and I'm married to Ashley. We have no children but have one cat! My father's brothers Peter never married, but the youngest son Robert married and had two sons David and Christopher who are both younger than myself. I was born in 1958.
Like you, I have managed to find bits and pieces of the others and would be happy to exchange. Actually, I did find a marriage between an Andrew and Wilhelmina Chambers/Chalmers for 1859 Glasgow but as I hadn't come across a death cert for Andrew to confirm his parents, I wasn't sure.
I've recently come across some very interesting yet upsetting information about a Janet Leitch a possible sister to James Leitch (Catherine BLACK). Basically, a Janet Leitch married a Duncan Mackellar in Kilmodan in 1819. They have a least 4 children. I've never been able to find either of their death certificates to confirm parents etc. And I have never traced them through the census. However, I was contacted by Alasdair Broun who was interested in tracing the Mackeller's. He adviced that a Duncan MacKellar and a Janet Leitch were married and together with his Uncle, another Duncan MacKellar went to Australia in the 1820s. There, whilst nephew Duncan was 'up country' Janet was murdered in 1828. It's all very intriguing, but trying to establish if she is Janet born to Alexander and Mary Leitch is proving difficult. This is the reason why I have been trying to obtain copies of the MI's from Kilmodan just in case they mention her on a tombstone. I've been informed there was no death cert but there is a newspaper report but alas doesn't mention family details.
I shall send over the details. However, if you prefer me to send them via an email address let me know.
I really should introduce myself!!
Elaine Trafford nee Robertson and we live near Winchester, UK.
Bye for now, regards,
Elaine.
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Elaine,
I have sent you a personal message with my information.
Janice
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Janice,
Here's some more info on the family, making the world smaller still:
Agnes Chalmers Leitch, dau of Andrew and Wilhelmina, married 21 Apr 1899 in Govan, John Cairns. He was her second marriage, first was to a man named Cree.
John was the son of William Kirkwood Cairns & Helen Thomson.
John & Agnes had a daughter, Agnes Chalmers Leitch Cairns, who married 30 Dec 1921 in Govan, Peter Reid Lawson.
Peter and Agnes had a daughter Elizabeth Reid Lawson, b 1923.
Peter was the son of John Christie Lawson and Elizabeth Reid.
Elizabeth Reid was the sister of my paternal gt-grandmother Mary Wilson Reid, who married George Campbell Ross.
My grandmother Elizabeth Reid Ross, was their dau, born in Govan.
The Ross' emigrated to NY in 1904.
John & Elizabeth Lawson emigrated to NY in 1921.
Peter Lawson and Agnes emigrated to NY after his parents.
The Ross' and Lawsons built a house together here in NY, and although I knew the Ross', I only knew Susan Lawson (see below), not any of the others, even though they had attended my father's sister's wedding, and stayed in touch with those cousins until my aunt's death in the 70's.
Peter and Agnes' dau Elizabeth Reid Lawson never married, and may have passed away by now.
Peter had a sister Susan Todd Lawson, who also emigrated, and married Victor Blanco, born in Spain. They had no children. Upon retirement, they lived in the house both families had built,; Susan, widowed, moved to Toronto to someone in the Lawson family when the house had to be sold.
I do not know which Lawsons were in Toronto, do not know what happened to any of them except Susan. Peter had died by 1930, apparantly Agnes never remarried as of 1950.
Cheers,
Peigi
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Hi Peigi
Thank you for all of the information.
What a small world! (Toronto is where I was born)
It is absolutely amazing, just how many family members I have managed to locate, or who have located me, because of this site. :)
If there is any information I can offer that you need, let me know. I have managed to find information on some spouses and children of the Leitch family.
Janice
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Janice,
I have enough info on the Leitch line.
If any of whom you're researching ended up in Ulster or Greene Co, NY area, let me know. I'll help if I can.
Thanks,
Peigi
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Peigi
Thanks again!
I have sent you a pm with something I believe you may want for your records.
All the best!
Janice :D
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Alexander Leitch who married Mary Weir are my ancestors. Their daughter Mary married John Munn and moved to Greenock. Their daughter Mary Munn married Dugald McLarty in Greenock. Their son Archibald McLarty married Margaret Cameron. Their son James Cameron McLarty married Janet Ferguson Dennis. These were my Grandparents. Their daughter Margaret Cameron Dennis McLarty is still living. I am her eldest daughter and live in Arkansas in the US. I hope you can follow this, it is the first time I have been on this site.
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Welcome!
I had no trouble at all following your reply. It is very nice to hear from family.
As you can see, I have heard from a few members of this line. I will have to look out some information I was sent, and send it through to you. I am sending you a personal message, with my email.
Take care!
Janice
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Hi Janice.
I've just joined Rootschat and found all your information on the Leitch family of Glendaruel et al.
They are not a direct relative of mine but they are relative of my wife (Lesley).
Her maternal Grandmother was Jeannie Constance Stalker Leitch b, 17th March 1894 in East Kilbride, d. Dundee 1st April 1969. She was the second eldest of 4 girls and 2 boys - Mary Mitchell Leitch,b. 1890, Ernest Duncanson Leitch b. 1896, Martin Leitch - Who froze to death in a Lake in Alberta, Canada whilst duck hunting. The last 2 in the family were Annie Ferguson Leitch and Pearl Leitch who died just a few years ago in West Kilbride.
I am researching the history of the leitch family and thanks to a cousin in Delta BC I have received a lot of information, including a copy of a letter sent to the above mentioned Ernest, who was a farmer in Canada (I don't know where).
The letter came from his uncle who was in Australia having emigrated there sometime before 1891, having qualified at Melbourne Veterinary college in 1891. He saw service in South Africa during the Boer War. His name was John Black Leitch and was the son of John Black Leitch son of James Leitch & Catherine Black.
The letter is handwritten and covers no less than 21 foolscap pages dated 1937. We have managed to transcribe it onto Microsoft Word so It is a little easier to read now.
If you want to get in touch do so and I'll e-mail you a copy if you would like that.
I hope the my information has been of help to you.
Yours
Alex (and Lesley) Liggins - Dundee 2009
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Hello Alex and Lesley,
I've just this minute received email notification that you made a post to this topic. James Leitch and Catherine Black are my 3X great grandparents. Below is a reply I made to Janice a while back. I'd be happy to exchange info and as I have no details other than a name would be interested in John Black Leitch.
Regards,
Elaine Trafford
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Hi Elaine,
Nice surprise to hear from you so soon.Regarding John Black Leitch, I don't know an awful lot about him yet, but I'll give you what facts I have because he is no doubt related.
From his letter I gather he was a vet qualifying in 1891 I am surmising that he must have been in his early Twenties when he wen to Australia.
His father was also Named John Black Leitch and was the son of James & Catherine of Kilmodan. He was also a farmer growing fruit for drying - in fact in the letter I have from him to Ernest Leitch, he tells quite a lot about this farm work. He then goes on to give some family history telling stories about his father and Brother, Andrew who I believe was Ernest's father, but I have yet to confirm this. Fortunately my wife's Mother, still remembers Ernest so I hope to gain some more info from her. I do know the he emigrated to Canada and lived out his life farming there.
You are welcome to any information I have if we could get in touch directly I could e-mail it to you.
Nice to hear from you,
Alex Liggins
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Hi Alex,
I have sent you a personal message with my email address. Hope to hear from you soon.
Janice
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Hi to Solong....I am interested in the Kilmodan m/i's. My ancestors were elders in that church and as such, I thought they would have been buried there. Having visited and been unable to see a grave stone (due to the fact that many are fallen and covered with earth), any records would be a great help to me. Hoping that you had a reply from the powers that be. Heather. N.Z.
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Is there anyone out there of these Kilmodan/Glendaruel Leitch families? I am an admin of a DNA project and am investigating lines which may have similarity to these Leitch lines on the basis of genetic markers. If anyone out there is, or has a relative who is, a male in the direct paternal line of Leitch (most often this is someone with that surname), please get in touch! We would love to have you in the project.
Our project is the MacLea/Livingston DNA project. There is a possibility that MacLea, one name derivation being "son of the physician [leech]" may have, in some cases, used the surname Leitch/Leech/Leach/etc.
Please get in touch if you have questions or interest, or know someone who would be a good testee!
Kyle