MacLeods of Stornoway COMPLETED

[annypanny]

Hi All,

If there's someone who specialises in the Hebrides especially Stornoway does anyone have any information on emmigration on the MacLeod family who lived in Keose, on the island of Lewis. 

 My Grandmother's Uncles supposedly emmigrated to Canada just after the turn of the century but I'm having a nightmare trying to trace them on passenger lists due to the frequency of the name (and christian names).  Is there a list of people who had assisted passage, I think he may have had something to do with the Hudson Bay Co.

I went onto the Hebridean Connections website which states that George MacLeod emmigrated to vancouver but no source as to where the original info came from except from Gleanings: The Genealogy of Kinloch, Isle of Lewis and History of the Area.  I've uncovered as much as I can from the IGI which gave some information but SP is impossible without spending a fortune.....as you've no clue as to who the mother is...

Here's the vital details of the family and if anyone has any connections would be glad to here from you.....

Thanks in advance......

Family Group Sheet for Malcolm Macleod

Husband:    Malcolm Macleod

   Birth:   Abt. 1837 in Keose, The Lochs, Stornoway   
   Marriage:   19 Dec 1867 in Lochs, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland   
   Father:   Roderick Macleod   
   Mother:   Mary Macleod   
         
   Wife:   Margaret Mckenzie   
         
   Birth:   Abt. 1845 in Stornoway   
   Death:   26 Feb 1911 in 8 Hancock Court, Francis Street Stornoway   
   Father:     
   Mother:     
         
   Children:     
         
1   Name:   Annabella Macleod   
F         
   Birth:   01 Oct 1869 in Lochs Ross and Cromarty   
         
         
2   Name:   Annie Macleod   
F         
   Birth:   05 Dec 1871 in Keose, Hebrides, Scotland,   
         
   Death:   27 Jan 1921 in Royal infirmary, Glasgow   
   Marriage:   06 Jul 1898 in 35 Hutcheson Street   
   Spouse:   Robert Finlay   
         
3   Name:   Mary Macleod   
F         
   Birth:   14 Aug 1874 in Lochs, Ross and Cromarty   
         
         
4   Name:   Murdo Macleod   
M         
   Birth:   Abt. 1877 in Keose, Lochs Ross and cromarty   
         
         
5   Name:   George Macleod   
M         
   Birth:   1881 in Keose, Lochs, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland   
         
         
6   Name:   Roderick Macleod   
M         
   Birth:   Abt. 1888 in Lochs Ross and Cromarty   
         
         
7   Name:   John Macleod   
M         
   Birth:   24 Jul 1883   
         
   Death:   16 Sep 1884   

[acorngen]

Wasnt the Macleod family part of Ian Hislop's or David Tennants WDYTYA?

[annypanny]

Can't remember!  I remember Ian Hislops being in Ayrshire but David Tennants, not sure....

[JustLooking]

Hi

Oh dear, Lewis is full of McLeods - poor you 

Which of the people that you've listed are the uncles besides George and have you got them on the 1911 in Canada or any deaths to match up parents' names?


JL

[acorngen]

AnnyPanny,

Mymemory was correct however Ian had the Murdo name and Tennant had the McCleod name in Ireland so I was kind of wrong as well lol.  Good look with your search

[annypanny]

This is where it became complicate.....I tried SP for Murdo, George and Rodericks BCs and going by the 1901 census tried a year either way on the year but there were loads of people with the same name born in Stornoway but with no mother's name so couldn't pinpoint their dob.  On the Canadian census, again had the same problems as there were loads MacLeods but without their date of birth I can't pinpoint them, and Murdo was a labourer which means he probably would have taken any job in Canada in the 1901 census so I can't use an occupation to pin him down...ie a barber or a tailor etc.....

In regards to deaths for Canada, on Ancestry they don't give a lot of info...I've a few possibilities but nothing conclusive....

Ma hied's spinning.....Any help would be appreciated.......

Thanks

[JustLooking]

Have I got the correct family in 1901 _

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


JL

[annypanny]

that's them

[JustLooking]

I've been going through the passenger lists and I'm not having much luck - could be them/might not be them, etc. Also, I'm only OK with Ontario records and so far I've not found any marriages.


JL