Birth: Circa 1818 Ryton, Durham, UK
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 16 August 1845 Whickham, Durham, UK
Wife: Jane Daglish 1825-1885
Death: January-March 1855 Gateshead, Durham, UK
Jane Leck 1847-1905
Harfred? Leck 18495
Mary Ann Leck 1850-1918
Euphemia Leck 1853-1886
Phoebe Leck 1847-a1871
Margaret Leck [Thirlaway] 1855-1912
In the 1841 census as James Leck aged 23, born in Durham, a blacksmith and living with Tho and Mary Brace and their two sons? (James and John Brace) and his brother? (Joshua Leck), also a blacksmith in Winlaton, Durham.
Marriage of James Leek (sic - on the typed original which must have been copied from a handwritten one) and Mary Daglish in FreeBMD in July-September 1845 in Gateshead (24 133)
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973 for the marriage of James Leek (sic) and Jane Daglish on 16 August 1845 in Whickham, Durham.
His two daughters were born in Whickham in 1847 and 1850.
In the 1851 census as James Seck (sic - in the index, Leck on the original) aged 33, born in Ryton, Durham, a blacksmith, and living with his wife (Jane), and two daughters (Harfred and Jane) in Cottage Row, Winlaton, Durham.
His three daughters were born in Whickham from 1851 to 1854.
Death of James Leck in FreeBMD in January-March 1855 in Gateshead (10A 321).
His last daughter was born after his death.
There are twenty five entries in Ancestry Family Trees for James Leck.
Ryton is 8 miles, Winlaton 6 miles and Whickham 4 miles all west of Gateshead.
James Leck was the father of Margaret Leck, wife of Thomas Thirlaway, uncle of John James Thirlow, husband of Alice Johnston, 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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