Birth: 3:30 am 22 August 1867 Peasehill, Roxburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland, UK
Father: William McLeod 1827-1902
Mother: Elizabeth Skilian (Skillon) 1833-1907
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 22 February 1895 Whitelaw, Edrom, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Wife: Mary Johnston 1871-1940
Death: 9 am 13 November 1951 Station Cottages, Chirnside, Berwickshire, 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 William Mcleod born on 22 August 1867 in Melrose, Roxburgh, parents William Mcleod and Elisabeth Skelian.
Entry in the Register of Births for William McLeod in 1867 in Melrose (799/1 89). "Page 80 1867 Births in the District of Melrose in the County of Roxburgh [...] [No.] 89 William McLeod [on] 1867 August Twenty Second 3h. 30m. A.M. Peasehill Parish of Melrose, [parents] William McLeod Shepherd [and] Elizabeth McLeod M.S. Skilian 19? December 1856 at Stitchel?, [informant] William McLeod Father [on] 1867 Sept 19th at Melrose".
His brother was born in Coldingham in 1870.
In the 1861 census as William McLeod aged 4, born in Melrose, Roxburghshire, and living with his parents (William and Elizabeth), three brothers (Andrew, George and John) and three sisters (Euphemia W, Elizabeth and Mary) at Abbeypark Farm Cottages, Coldingham, Berwickshire.
A sister was born in Coldingham in 1872, another in Cockburnspath in 1874, and a third in Ayton in 1878.
In the 1881 census as William McLeod aged 13, born in Melrose, Roxburghshire, an agricultural labourer, and living with his parents (William and Elisabeth), three brothers (Andrew, George and John), and six sisters (Alice, Elisabeth, Euphemia, Isabella, Jemima and Mary) at Wynnefield, Whitsome, Berwickshire.
In the 1891 census as William McLeod aged 22, born in Melrose, Roxburghshire, an agricultural labourer, and living with his parents (William and Elizabeth), brother (John), four sisters (Alice, Euphemia, Isabella and Jemima) and neice (Elizabeth) at Hutton Hall Barns, Hutton, Berwickshire.
Entry in the Register of Marriages for William McLeod and Mary Johnston 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 [of] Whitelaw [parents] George Johnston Ploughman (dec) [and] Jane Johnston M.S. Davidson [witnesses] George Johnston Witness [and] Isabella McLeod Witness".
In the 1901 census as William McLeod aged 33, born in Peashill, Roxburgh, a ploughman, and living with his wife (Mary), sister (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.
In the 1911 census as William McLeod aged 42, born in Melrose, Roxburgh, a farm servant in charge of horses, and living with his wife (Mary J), son (William), three daughters (Elizabeth, Jane and Mary), mother-in-law (Jane D Johnston) and brother-in-law (George Johnston) in three rooms with windows at Putton Mill, Duns Landward, Berwickshire.
In the 1921 census as Willm McLeod aged 52 years 10 months, born in Mertoun (sic), Berwick, a ploughman for Francis Elliot Farmer, three dependent children aged 7, 13 and 15, and living with his wife (Mary), 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. His future daughter-in-law and her parents were living next door.
He was present and the informant of the death of his wife in Duns in 1940.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for William McLeod, aged 84, in 1951 in Chirnside (730/ 17). "1951 Deaths in the District of Chirnside in the County of Berwick [...] [No.] 17 William McLeod Agricultural Worker 'Retired' Widower of Mary Johnston 1951 November Thirteenth 9H. 0M. A.M. Station Cottages Chirnside 84 Years [parents] William McLeod Shepherd (Deceased) [and] Elizabeth McLeod M.S. Skelian (Deceased). [of] Bronchiolitis and Cardiac Failure, [informant] William McCleod Son Present 1951 November 30th At Chirnside".
Entry in Ancestry Family Trees for William McLeod.
William McLeod was the 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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