MacLeod and Leask Family Tree

Margaret's family has origins in Harris in the Outer Hebrides and Aberdeenshire on her father's side, and Perthshire and the fishing ports of East Lothian on her mother's side. When Margaret's boys came to live in Shetland in 1987 they knew they were returning home in some ways as they knew that an ancestor had emigrated from Shetland to Leith last century. They also have origins in Edinburgh and Dumfries.
 
If you have any possible links then you can download a zipped Gedcom file (124 kB) including over 2000 people in my Pennington tree or Margaret and her childrens'  family tree. Note that people born before 1920 are excluded to protect the privacy of the living. If you do not have the means to unzip files the unzipped Gedcom can also be downloaded (600 kB). Or e-mail Mike and Margaret Pennington directly.

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The Leask boys

Tobias LEASK
b. [still alive] in Bangour, West Lothian, Scotland, UK

Euan Thomas LEASK
b. [still alive] in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Liam LEASK
b. [still alive] in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK


Parents

Ian LEASK
b. [still alive] in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
m. 22 Jul 1972 in Drylaw Parish Church, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Margaret Johnston MacLEOD
b. [still alive] in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Both remarried. See the Pennington tree for details of Margaret's second marriage.

Grandparents

Thomas LEASK
b. 20 Sep 1923 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, d. about 1966
m.
Louisa EUNSON

Donald Angus MacLEOD
b. 31 Dec 1924 in West Tarbet, Harris, Scotland, UK
m. 10 June 1948 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Catherine Morrison JOHNSTON
b. 13 Nov 1921 in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

 
Known Great Grandparents
James John LEASK
b. 1894 in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
m.
Janet Somerville ALEXANDER
b. 1891 in St Andrews, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

John Norman MacLEOD
b. about 1902 on Harris, Scotland, UK  d about 1968 on Harris, Scotland, UK
m. 12 Feb 1924 at Free Presbyterian Church, Tarbert, Harris, Scotland, UK
Maggie S. MacLEOD
b. about 1904 at Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK (?)

Thomas JOHNSTON
b. about 1880 in Cockenzie, East Lothian, Scotland, UK  d. 1954 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
m. 31 Dec 1907 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Janet Maclaren (Jessie) MORRISON
b. 7 June 1879 at Balnasuin, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland, UK d. 1968 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
 

Known Great Great Grandparents

James John LEASK
d. 26 September 1870 in Pitt Lane, Lerwick, Scotland, UK
m. 1 June 1894 in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Mary GRIEVE
b. 1875 in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Donald MacLEOD
m.
Annie MacAULAY

John MacLEOD
m.
Christina MacLEOD
b. about 1881 at Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK

Adam JOHNSTON
b. about 1846 in Cockenzie, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
m. 1868 in Tranent, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
Margaret MARSHALL
b. 1849 in Cockenzie, East Lothian, Scotland, UK

John MORRISON
b. about 1831 in Killin, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
m. 20 October 1865 in Lawers, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
Margaret MacLAREN
b. about 1842 in Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland, UK

 

Known Great Great Great Grandparents

Thomas LEASK
d. 18 October 1838, West Brough, Yell, Shetland, Scotland, UK d. 24 April 1887 East Cromwell Street, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
m. 15 August 1861 at Averhoull, Yell, Shetland, Scotland, UK
Bathsheba Elizabeth Charlotte Hoseason HENDERSON
b. 2 February 1836 at Inhouse, Burraness, Delting, Shetland, Scotland UK

Adam GRIEVE
b. 1846 in Moffat, Dumfries, Scotland, UK
m. 1873 in South Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Euphemia JOHNSTON
b. about 1846 in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Kenneth MacLEOD
b. about 1854 on Harris, Scotland, UK
m. 1877 at Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
Margaret TAIT
b. about 1856 at Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK

James JOHNSTONE
b. about 1819 in Cockenzie, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
m. 2 Dec 1842 in Tranent, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
Janet DONALDSON
b. 1818 in Cockenzie, East Lothian, Scotland, UK

James MARSHALL
b. about 1811 in Cockenzie, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
m.
Jane I. JONES
b. 1812 in Cockenzie, East Lothian, Scotland, UK

John MORRISON
b. 1808 in Killin, Perthshire, Scotalnd, UK
m. July 1830 in Killin, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
Catherine MacINTYRE
b. 1802 in Killin, Perthshire, Scotland, UK  d. before 1865
Catherine MacIntyre was supposed to be a relative of the Gaelic poet Duncan Ban MacIntyre.

Archibald MacLAREN
b. 1795 at Weem, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
m. 2 Jan 1831 at Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
Ann ROBERTSON
b. 1804 at Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland, UK

KKnown Great Great Great Great Grandparents

John GRIEVE
m. 19 Sep 1845 in Moffat, Dumfries, Scotland, UK
Jane HENDERSON

Daniel LEASK
d. about 1807, Sound, West Yell, Shetland, Scotland, UK  d. before 1887
m. 1 December 1832
Christina Margaret MANSON
b. about 1809, West Sandwick, Yell, Shetland, Scotland UK  d. 9 March 1903, Grindwell, Mossbank, Shetland, Scotland, UK

John HENDERSON
b. about 1803, Firth, Shetland, Scotland, UK
m.
Margaret MURRAY
b. about 1804, Lee of Burraness, Firth, Delting, Shetland

Adam JOHNSTONE
b. about 1794 in Tranent, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
m. 11 Nov 1817 in Tranent, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
Alison ROSS

James DONALDSON
b. about 1786 in Tranent, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
m. 20 Feb 1809 in Tranent, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
Susanna THOMSON

Thomas MARSHALL
m.
Euphemia GREY

John JONES
m.
Janet HUNTER

Peter MORISON
m. 27 Dec 1807 in Killin, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
Mary CAMPBELL

John MacINTYRE
m. 6 Dec 1799 in Killin, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
Janet CAMPBELL

Duncan MacLAREN
m.
Isabel MacGREGOR

John ROBERTSON
m.
Ann MacDIARMID

Known 5G Grandparents

Andrew LEASK
d. before 1780
m.
Catherine GILBERTSON
b. before 1780

Simon MANSON
b. 1790 West Sandwick, Yell, Shetland, Scotland, UK
m. 24 May 1807
Janet Catherine JOHNSON
b. 17 November 1785  West Sandwick, Yell, Shetland, Scotland, UK  d. 1879 in Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland, UK

James JOHNSTONE
m.
Jean BIRD

Robert DONALDSON
b. about 1761 in Tranent, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
m. 14 Dec 1783 in Tranent, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
Margaret RITCHIE

Known 6G Grandparents

John JOHNSON
b. before 1769 Hivdigarth, North-a-voe, Yell, Shetland, Scotland, UK
m.
Elizabeth HUGHSON
b. 1758

John DONALDSON
m. 14 Apr 1753 in Tranent, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
Barbara HAMILTON

Known 7G Grandparents

Magnus JOHNSON
m.
Janet STOVE
b. 21 July 1735, Hamnavoe, Yell, Shetland, Scotland, UK
 

Known 8G Grandparent

Robert STOVE