Birth: About 1813 Scotland, UK
Father: Alexander Donaldson b1798-a1813
Mother: Margaret Donaldson b1798-a1813
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 26 June 1837 Dundee, Angus, Scotland
Husband: John Leslie 1800-1865
Death: 17 February 1872 27 Queen Steet, Dundee, Angus, Scotland, UK
David Leslie c1838-a1851
Helen Y Leslie c1840-a1861
Mary Leslie c1842-a1861
William Duncan Leslie 1842-1881
James Leslie c1846-a1861
George Leslie c1848-a1870
Margaret Leslie 1850
John Leslie 1852-1914
Betsey (Betsy) Leslie 1855-1878
There is a submitted entry in the IGI for the birth of Margaret Donaldson in 1813 in Blairgowie, Angus. There are also two submitted entries, both in giving her birth in about 1822, one giving her marriage to John Leslie and the christening of Margaret in 1850 - I assume that her birth was calculated from the latter date. The census entries state she was born in Dundee in about 1813 but I can find no entry for her baptism there.
There is an entry in the IGI for the marriage of Margaret Donaldson to John Lesslie on 26 June 1837 in Dundee, Angus.
Entry in Ancestry Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910 for Margaret Donaldson and John Lesslie on 26 June 1837 in Angus.
Entry in the Old Parish Registers for Margaret Donaldson andJohn Leslie on 26 June 1837 in Dundee (282/ 220 305). "June 1838 291 [...] John Lesslie labourer and Margaret Donaldson both of this pa da of Mr Donaldson Blairgowrie 26".
In the 1841 census as Margaret Lesslie aged 25 (rounded down to a mutiple of 5), born in Angus/Forfar, and living with John (husband?), David (son?), Helen (daughter?) and David (relationship unknown, aged 15 and employed as a masons apprentice) at West Port, Dundee. Another family shared the same address.
In the 1851 census as Margaret Lesslie aged 37, born in Dundee, Forfar, and living with her husband (John), four sons (David, George, James and William) and daughter (Mary) at 38 West Port, Dundee. Another family shared the same address.
All the children were born in Dundee, Angus, but only the last three have any record of their births.
In the 1861 census as Margaret Lesslie aged 48, born in Dundee, Forfarshire, and living with her husband (John), three sons (George, James and John) and three daughters (Betsey, Helen and Mary), at 21 Queen Street, Dundee. Two children were attending school and two rooms had windows.
Her husband died on 1 November 1865 - John Lesslie, a coal porter married to Margaret Donaldson. They were living at 21 Queen Street. The informant was their son George.
In the 1871 census as Margret D Leslie aged 58, born in Dundee, Forfarshire, widowed, and living with her son (John), two daughters (Betsey S and Helen Y), and daughter in law (Archina Leslie wife of her son George) at 27 Queen Street, Dundee (at least 6 families were living at this address).
Death of Margaret Leslie in the Register of Deaths in 1872 aged 58 St Andrew (Dundee) (282/4 193). "Page 65 1872 Deaths inthe District of St Andrew in the Burgh of Dundee No. 193 Margaret Leslie, widow of John Leslie, coal dealer, died on 1873 (sic - all the following entries on the same page are dated 1872) February seventeenth at 9:30 am at 27 Queen Steet, Dundeeaged 58 years, parents Alexander Donaldson ploughman (Deceased) and Margaret Donaldson M.S. Donaldson, (Deceased) caused by chronic bronchitis phthisis, informant was W D Leslie son of Castle Hotel, Knaresborough, on 1872 February 19th At: Dundee."
Her name is given as Margaret Leslie formerly MS Donaldson on her son William' Duncan Leslie's death certicate dated 14 January 1881.
There are five entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Margaret Donaldson.
Blairgowrie is 20 miles NW of Dundee. West Port is off the A991 (Marketgait) in Dundee, Queen St is on the east side of Dundee, again just of Marketgait.
Margaret Donaldson was Felicity's second great grandmother.
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