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Hey there Bill, Julian here.
I think you have it - Mary Leake who emigrated to to America did indeed have brothers Hugh and Edward and her parents were John and Margaret. She was first brought to my attention by the late Muriel Leeke who was the granddaughter of George, who was Mary’s brother. Muriel told me that Mary emigrated and “never corresponded” apparently.
Mary was a witness at her brother Joe’s wedding in Magilligan (1889) presumably just before she left.
Her paternal grandfather was Francis Leek of the bog (pr: bogue) in the townland of Ballymultimber. Mary’s parents John and Margaret lived in the townland of Margymonaghan. The remains of their “tumbledown” house is still partially standing!

Looking for information on John Steele (abt 1797-1872).  Born in Greenock, emigrated to Upper Canada, died in Port Hope, Ontario.  Married Mary Spalding.  Would like to know information on his parents and siblings - did any emigrate to Canada in his wake?  Many thanks!

This is really interesting stuff - thank you!! Could you please clarify for me though, exactly WHO was born on 4th July 1861 to which parents? And would you happen to have the names of those kids born in Camla and Brandrum? Whom were they born to Matt or Sam and Matilda, sorry, I'm a wee bit confused...

Thank you Kingkerswell and Aghadowey for your replies to this post.

 As you are both aware, I have been on a search to try and discover something of the origins of the Leeke/Leake family in the north west of Ireland. I had 'rejected' this Hearth Money record mentioning Edward Leeke as it was written down on the records I received from my father with no reference to its origins, and having looked at some later record sources (Griffiths and 20th c censuses) I'd found Lakes and Leitches in the Macosquin/Coleraine areas which caused me to doubt the accuracy of the transcription. But there it is!

I wonder if I might be on to something here....
Trisram Beresford (b: 1574) came to Ulster and settled in Coleraine. He married Susannah Brooke (from London) and they had two sons and three daughters. Michael Beresford his son, Sheriff of the counties of Derry, Donegal and Tyrone, married Mary Leake who was a daughter of Sir John Leake.
Here we have a Leake in Coleraine. Now, I KNOW these people were gentry. Michael's brother Tristram was the 1st Baronet who married a daughter of John Rowley of Castleroe - Anne Rowley. But here we have the surname Leake being associated with Coleraine. Someone recently said to me that thinking laterally can provide valuable genealogical clues to family origins.
 I wonder if this Mary Leake, daughter of Sir John, had poor cousins? 
It's funny that there were well-heeled Leakes arriving in the county of Derry for various reasons: Mary Leake to marry Michael Beresford, Sir John Leake to relieve Derry as captain of the HMS Dartmouth in 1689, and then in 1753 along came the Rev. Richard Leake of the city of Londonderry who was a trustee of the Vaughan estate in Buncrana - his name appearing alongside such noteworthies as: Anthony Foster, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer of Ireland; Andrew Knox of Prehen House, MP of Half Hanged McNaughten fame and the Rev. Edward Golding, Archdeacon of Diocese of Derry. All the while there was a humble little farming family in Magilligan called the Leakes whose fortunes pale to insignificance alongside these celebrities!
But seriously, it does cause me to question whether there may have been even a vague connection between Mary Beresford nee Leake and the Edward Leeke mentioned in Macosquin in 1663...

If you buy the book scotch Irish origins you will find a list of tenants for the gage and Bruce estates I had ancestors in that for 30 years or so and I'm thinking these English ones bought it.... Not only that my ancestors are indeed Presbyterian so all religions had land taken off them not just Catholics

Hi Owenc
Yes I checked out the Scots Irish Origins book (Forrest) and a lot of the earliest info I have on my family in Magilligan came from that brilliant wee book. I now know exactly where in PRONI I can find The Gage Estate records which, I suspect, may turn up even more info from the 1700s than what I've seen so far. Thanks for the 'heads up' though!