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Hello davidas

You sure seem to be part of the same clan descended from Kenneth 1752.  All the info you mention seems to tally.  As woodvillecaz says, the trail ends there for the time being.

Kenneth 1752 is also my 4x Gt G'father > Alexander 1803 > Kenneth 1849 > Kenneth > 1884 > Alexander 1914 (my late G'father).

With a huge amount of help from both woodvillecaz and babygil, I've constructed an ancestry tree which extends to 500+ people now. Anyway, I have your G'father John B of Stockton (now updated to Burdon) and siblings and would be very happy to let you have access to the tree should you be happy to exchange info on some of your ancestors.  I will need your email address so if you email me at ross75 at gmail dot com I can set you up with access. No obligation of course.

Does your mum have many memories about her aunts/uncles?  My great uncle Colin (Alexander 1914's brother) died aged 91 early this year having left me with some pretty strange and wonderful stories about his.

mistermc

PS I was born and live in Surrey but a number of family walking holidays to the beautiful Yorkshire Dales and Moors led us to think of Yorks as another home, ignorant though we were of the long connection.

PPS woodvillecaz - hello - I think babygil was also descended through Kenneth 1792 (like davidas) and then through either George or James.  I will need to refresh my memory

Hello babygil

(and hello woodvillecaz, I see you've just posted a message seconds before I posted mine!)

Thanks for getting in touch, it's very good to hear from you.

woodvillecaz and I are both descendents of Alexander b1803.  woodvillecaz is descended from his son Donald (who went to Golspie to be Factor to Duke of Sutherland) and I'm descended from Donald's brother Kenneth b 1849 who also had a hand in the Alum mines.

The Whitby /Sandsend McLeans do seem to bear some relation though exactly what isn't very clear yet.  woodvillecaz did suggest the possibility of a whaling boat which landed at Whitby and from there some may have gone inland a little to Loftus but this is only speculation at the moment.  As you suggest, the Scotland connection looks strong and Invernessshire looks like a good place to start but again, this is only based on hunches and snippets of information.  Nothing concrete unfortunately!  My dad who is retired is threatening to go to Scotland and do some digging but without something firm to go on it could be a waste of time.

My Great Uncle who is 90 in Edinburgh has sent me a photo of Donald (as Factor) from an illustrated news magazine in 1901 (from an article: Leading Agricultral Men of the North) and I also have a photo of Kenneth b1849 aged about 13 so I will let you have copies if you would like.

I'm interested in the articles you have from Teeside Archives.  If it's not too much trouble, would it be possible to have copies of your copies please??

If you are on Ancestry.co.uk then I can give you access to my tree...but if not then I can send you an image of the McLean tree we've completed so far and I've very much like to know more about your branch too.  Kenneth b1792 is one of the few  people for whom I have names of children with Ann Best but nothing more.

So where are you based?
Kind regards,
mistermc

Hello!  This is my ancestor too and I've reached a similar wall.  Would be very interested in learning more.  Sorry this isn't an anwer to your query!