Birth: 11PM 3 January 1871 Fulfordlees, Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Father: George Johnston c1837-1872
Mother: Jane Caverhill Davidson 1835-1911
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 22 February 1895 Whitelaw, Edrom, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Husband: William McLeod 1867-1951
Death: 6PM 11 Apr 1940 Turtleton, Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
William McCleod 1898-1975
Jane McLeod 1901-a1911
Two unnamed twins (male and female) born and died 1903
Mary Johnston McLeod 1906-2003
Elizabeth Johnston McLeod [Turnbull] 1908-a1927
Entry in Ancestry Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 for Mary Johnston born on 3 January 1871 in Cockburnspath, Berwick, parents George Johnston and Jane Caverhill Davidson.
Entry in Register of Births for Mary Johnston born in 1871 in Cockburnspath (731/3). "Page 1 Births in the Parish of Cockburnspath in the County of Berwick [...] No. 3 Mary Johnston 1871 January Third 11 h 0 m P.M. at Fulfordlees father George Johnston, a Steward, and Jane Caverhill Johnston M.S. Davidson married 1858 May 22nd at Bee Edge, informant George Johnston Father Present on 1871 January 20th at Cockburnspath.
In the 1871 census as Mary Johnston aged momths, born in Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, and living with her parents (George and Jane C), five brothers (David, George, James, John and Robert), and two sisters (Elizabeth and Margaret) in Fulfordlees, Cockburnspath, Berwickshire.
Her father died in Cocksburnspath in 1872.
In the 1881 census as Jane Johnston aged 10, born in Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, and living with her mother (Jane), five brothers (David, George, James, John and Robert), and two sisters (Elizabeth and Margaret), two more sisters? (Elizabeth Findlay aged 16 and Mary Findlay aged 14, both born in Cockburnspath, Berwickshire), a boarder (Archibald Gray aged 19, born in Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, and joiner), and two lodgers (John M Robson aged 27, born in Norham, Northumberland and a fitter for a blacksmith, and George B Hadden aged 48, born in Benholm, Kincardineshire and a teacher of dancing) at Chapelhill, Cockburnspath, Berwickshire.
In the 1891 census as Mary Johnston aged 20, born in Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, an agricultural labourer, and living with her mother (Jane), and two brothers (George and Robert) in a cottage in Coldstrem, Berwickshire, Scotland.
Entry in the Register of Marriages for Mary Johnston and William McLeod in 1895 in Edrom (738/ 2). "1895 Page 1 Marriages in the Parish of Edrom in the County of Berwick [...] No. 2 1895 on the Twenty Second day of February at Whitelaw Edrom After Banns According to the Forms of the Church of Scotland (signed) William McLeod Ploughman (Bachelor) aged 26 of Whitelaw, parents William McLeod Ploughman and Elizabeth McLeod M.S. Shillen and (signed) Mary Johnston Field Worker (Spinster) aged 24 0f Whitelaw parents George Johnston Ploughman (dec) and Jane Johnston M.S. Davidson witnesses George Johnston and Isabella McLeod".
Her son was born in Middlefield, Langton, Berwickshire in 1898.
In the 1901 census as Mary Mcleod aged 30, born in Fulford Lees, Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, and living with her husband (William), son (William), sister-in-law (Elizabeth McLeod), Jessie and Mary E Mcalpine (aged 20 and 24, both born in Duns, and daughters of James and Mary McAlpine) and a servant (Robina Moffat aged 40 and born in Coldingham, Berwickshire) at Putton Mill Farm House, Duns, Berwickshire.
A son and daughter were born in Putton Mill, Duns in 1903, the daughter dying after 12 hours and the son after 6 days, and the three other daughters were born there between 1901 and 1908.
In the 1911 census as Mary J McLeod aged 40, born in Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, married for 16 years with 6 children, 4 still living, and living with her husband (William), son (William), three daughters (Elizabeth, Jane and Mary), mother (Jane D Johnston) and brother (George Johnston) in three rooms with windows at Putton Mill, Duns Landward, Berwickshire.
In the 1921 census as Mary McLeod aged 50 years 5 months, born in Co-path (sic), Berwick, and living with her husband (Willm), two sons (George and Willm), two daughters (Elizabeth and Mary) and a boarder (George Johnston aged 56, born in Copath, Berwick, single and a stonebreaker for Berwickshire County Council) in four rooms in Middlestotes Farm Cottages, Edrom, Berwick. Her future daughter-in-law and her parents were living next door.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Mary McLeod in 1940 aged 69 in Duns (735/ 18). "Page 6 1940 Deaths in the District of Duns in the County of Berwick [...] No. 18 Mary McLeod (married to William McCleod Farm Servant (Retired)) 1940 April Eleventh 6 h. 0m. P.M. Turtleton, Duns, 69 Years parents George Johnston Farm Steward (Deceased), Jane Caverhill Johnston M.S. Davidson (Deceased) Pernicious Anaemia Mycardial Degeneration informant Wm McLeod Widower (Present) on 1940 April 12th At Duns".
There are thirty seven entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Mary Johnston.
Mary Johnston was the mother of William McLeod, husband of Lillie Purves, first cousin of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of George William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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