>Scott< Gordon Kenneth MacLeod III, Canyon, California

I am researching the MacLeod family from Prince Edward Island, Canada. James McLeod (which he spelled MacLeod when he moved to Massachusetts) was possibly born in Invernesshire or Edinburgh, Scotland in the 1820s (1824?). He emigrated to PEI circa 1850. He then emigrated from Canada to the US in 1895. His gravestone can be found in the Boston area. Who came before him? > He married his first wife, Ann Bolger, July 4, 1850. They had 7 kids, of whom 6 survived. Who came before her? > After his first wife died, he was married again in PEI, this time to Margaret E. Barnes; they had 7 sons: Edward, Henry, Charles, Frederick, Ernest James, William, J. Gordon, and 2 daughters: Mary Gertrude, and Amy. (All born in PEI?) Ernest James MacLeod was my great grandfather, one of whose sons, Gordon, had Gordon (http://www.pitt.edu/~gmacleod), who is my father. Who came before Margaret Barnes? > My parents have two children, myself and my brother Sandy, aka Alexander Brown MacLeod (http://sandymacleod.com). > In addition, I'm researching the Mary Glynn family, my great grandmother who married my grandfather Ernest MacLeod. She was born in St. John's, Newfoundland. Who came before Mary Glynn? > I'm also researching my paternal grandmother's father's family. His name was John Driscoll and was born in County Cork, Ireland and married Catherine Ryan who was born on Banquet Hill, County Tipperary. Who came before them? > My mother's father's father was Alden Hugh Brown and he married Martha Holway Chadbourne, who died in childbirth. > Who came before Alden Hugh Brown? Benjamin Lincoln, in the Chadbourne line, received the sword of surrender from the English in the Revolutionary War and fought in Shay's rebellion. I'm familiar with some of the Chadbourne history through William Chadbourne in England in the late 1500s but don't know who preceded him. William Chadbourne (1582 - aft. 1652) crossed the Atlantic on the Pied Cow (Pide-Cowe) in 1634. Lt. Alexander Scammel Chadbourne of Maine, I think, (See Jim W. Corder's book "Hunting Lieutenant Chadbourne" which contains letters by my grandfather, ACB, as well as being a good read) who fought in the War of the Rebellion and the Battle of Chickamauga around 1862 is also in this line. Fort Chadbourne is named after him in Texas. > Sarah Bolles (b. January 20, 1656/57), who married Humphrey Chadbourne (14 generations back from the author), reportedly comes from a long, documented line of kings and queens in Scotland, England and France (see Bacon's "The Chadbourne Family in America: A Family Genealogy"): "Sarah Bolles has a well-established royal descent from Edward I, King of England (1272-1307) and many earlier Kings of England, Scotland and France, as published in Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists by Frederick Lewis Weis, 7th Edition [1992] compiled by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr." > Here's what the online Encyclopedia Britannica says about Edward I: "b. June 17, 1239, Westminster, Middlesex, Eng. d. July 7, 1307, Burgh by Sands, near Carlisle, Cumberland byname EDWARD LONGSHANKS son of Henry III and king of England in 1272-1307, during a period of rising national consciousness. He strengthened the crown and Parliament against the old feudal nobility. He subdued Wales, destroying its autonomy; and he sought (unsuccessfully) the conquest of Scotland. His reign is particularly noted for administrative efficiency and legal reform. He introduced a series of statutes that did much to strengthen the crown in the feudal hierarchy. His definition and emendation of English common law has earned him the name of the "English Justinian." " > Jeremy O'Brien is also a direct ancestor from the revolutionary war period, who fired the first naval shot, and I'm interested in how he relates to the rest of the tree. > My mother's mother's father was Oscar Gilbert, MD of Boulder Colorado, who married Agnes Kirkbride who also had roots in Missouri and Virginia. (http://scottmacleod.com)

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