J Macleod

[Gadget]

There is an online tree that includes him but very little information

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/103008598/person/320025315917/facts

PS - it seems to get his birth location as Knock, Banffshire

[GR2]

A contemporary newspaper report of the casualties from different settlements in Lewis mentions:

John Macleod, No. 43 Upper Bayble, left a widow and five children

John Macleod, 25 Laxay

John Macleod, No. 31 Raernish, left a widow and four young children

[Gadget]

GR  - The one mentioned i n the Marine returns appears to be the correct one (see previous posts)  He appears to be unmarried in that record.

PS - b. Knock.  Parents William and Christina

[Forfarian]

There is an online tree that includes him but very little information
PS - it seems to get his birth location as Knock, Banffshire

As usual, never trust a tree on Ancestry. Some numpty will have found that he has born at Knock and used a road atlas to locate it in Banffshire, blissfully ignorant of the existence of various other Knocks, including the one in Lewis.

Though it probably didn't help that Knock, Point, Parish of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis is now mapped with its Gaelic name An Cnoc. https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NB4931

The gravestone says he died in the War Hospital in Glasgow, not in Lewis.

[Rosinish]

This seems to be the only one recorded with a father William, wrong month but may have been a late registration?

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTX9-K61

Annie

[Gadget]

Forfarian -  that's why I referred to it! I think the owner must have given up 

I have been to Knock/Cnoc 

ps - I think the plot location in the marine return, indicates that it was a headstone in Aignish not a burial - will check

[Gadget]

Here it is -


Plot-Row-Grave

[Forfarian]

There's a marriage of William MacLeod, 28,  fisherman, Knock, and Christina MacLeod, 21, Swordale, both Stornoway in 1874.

I think this is the family in 1881
Public Rd, Stornoway, Ross & Cromarty,
William MC LEOD   M   35    M   Stornoway, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
   Rel:   Head
   Occ:   Fisherman
Christina MC LEOD   M   28    F   Stornoway, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
   Rel:   Wife
   Occ:   Fisherman Wife
Peggy MC LEOD       5    F   Stornoway, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
   Rel:   Daur
Mary MC LEOD       3    F   Stornoway, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
   Rel:   Daur
Christina MC LEOD       1    F   Stornoway, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
   Rel:   Daur
Mary MC DONALD       20    F   Lochs, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
   Rel:   Servant
   Occ:   Domestic Servant

Annoyingly, almost every household in the ED has the same address: Public Road, Stornoway! However there is a Donald Mckay, Minister Quoad Sacra in Manse, Public Road, in the same ED, and his details match those of Donald Mackay, who was appointed minister of the quoad sacra parish of Knock in 1878. So I think it's reasonable to suppose that this ED includes Knock, and that these are John's parents and eldest sisters.

I have yet to find them in 1891 or 1901.

[Forfarian]

I have been to Knock/Cnoc 

So have I - and to the Banffshire one

ps - I think the plot location in the marine return, indicates that it was a headstone in Aignish not a burial - will check

The photograph on FindaGrave certainly looks very like a headstone