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I have recently found the will of my mother's great grandfather GORDON MacLEOD of Lochbay House ,Stein, Skye and of Glencassley,Sutherland 1826 - 1873
He was born in Dal, parish of Farr, son of Donald McLeod a Gaelic teacher and his wife Elizabeth Mackenzie Gordon in 14 Nov 1826.
Is DAL a township or a shortened form of Dalharrald say?
He had a sister Elizabeth Maria who married a Daniel Reid , shipowner in Glasgow.
His brother William is listed as of Middlesbro on Tees and his second sister Janette was married to Robert Reid a writer in Wishaw. Any umpteenth cousins out there?
Sadly Gordon McLeod's wife Mary LESLIE of Dunlugas in Banff died young possibly in childbirth and a wet nurse is on the census of 1861 for 5 month old Henrietta. Did she survive I wonder.
Her siblings were Mary Wilhelmina Louisa(my grt gran) and George William .
Any information much appreciated.
Fransmoi.
Aird,Anderson,
Babington,
Bothwell,
Clark,
Dunford,
Errington,
Fleming,Forrest,
Gerrard,
Kinghorn,
Leslie,Loudon,Lumsden,
Mackenzie ,MacLeod,McLeod,Milne,Montgomery,
Ramsay,Ross ,Rust
Shields,Sim,Sowden, Stoddart,
Turnbull,
Wallace,Woodman
