MacLeods of Stornoway COMPLETED

[JustLooking]

They still sell  Stornoway Black Pudding all through the Long Isle and into Skye and on the Mainland. It's very good but Cockburns of Dingwall black pudding is a good 2nd  but I'm not sure that it was produced by your ancestor   

Anyway, I think that we should really be concentrating on the Canadian records 


JL

[KarenM]

Do you have exact birth dates for the ones that came to Canada?

Karen

[KarenM]

Have I got the correct family in 1901 _

20 Bells Road, Stornoway. Malcolm is a butcher  and Roderick down as Roderick J ?


JL

This looks like a good match for Roderick John's attestation papers in WW1.  He lists Murdo McLeod, his brother as his next of kin.  They are living in Vancouver, BC

http://data2.archives.ca/cef/gpc012/537235a.gif
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/gpc012/537235b.gif

Karen

[annypanny]

Karen,

Mmmm interesting....It may be them, I'll try to check them out on the 1911 census.  Thanks very much.....

Was this on ancestry?

[KarenM]

No, Library and Archives Canada.  You can search for free the WW1 database there.

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/lac-bac/search-recherche/anc.php?Language=eng

Karen

[annypanny]

No exact birth dates but if these attestation papers give his date of birth I can check it SP.  Will keep the board posted,

Thanks again....

[JustLooking]

Have I got the correct family in 1901 _

20 Bells Road, Stornoway. Malcolm is a butcher  and Roderick down as Roderick J ?


JL

This looks like a good match for Roderick John's attestation papers in WW1.  He lists Murdo McLeod, his brother as his next of kin.  They are living in Vancouver, BC

http://data2.archives.ca/cef/gpc012/537235a.gif
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/gpc012/537235b.gif

Karen

There's only one Roderick John M*cLeod's birth reg in R & C 1887-1889:

30 Oct 1887 - 9 Keith Street, Stornoway
Parents - Malcolm McLeod, labourer and Margaret m.s. McKenzie  (married Dec 19th 1867, Lochs)

 

Well done, Karen


JL

[annypanny]

Karen,  just downloaded his birth and it's him........Fab......I can't thank you enough, this is great.....

[KarenM]

Excellent!

You can order his full military file from LAC.  It could have some useful information in it.

As for Murdo, he is living in Vancouver in 1915.  Assuming he stayed in BC his whole life, there is a Murdo McLeod who died in 1971 age 94 years which would put his birth year 1877.

I'll direct one of our BC researches to this thread as she may be able to get more information.

Karen