Brief Life History of Roderick
When Roderick McLeod was born in 1827, in Selkirkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, William David Mc Leod, was 33 and his mother, Margaret Cumming, was 22. He married Jessie MacLeod on 6 February 1866, in River Denys, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1911. He died on 2 October 1913, in River Denys, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 86, and was buried in Inverness, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Roderick McLeod, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Roderick McLeod, "Canada, Nova Scotia Marriages, 1864-1918"
- Death Certificate
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1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
1832 · The Scottish Reform Act
The Scottish Reform Act was introduced by Parliament that introduced changes to the election laws in Scotland. The Act didn’t change the method of how the counties elected members but adopted a different solution for each pair of counties. Ultimately, it brought about boundary changes so that some burghs would have more say for the country than others.
1854 · Great North of Scotland Railway
Being one of the two smallest railways in 1923, the Great North of Scotland Railway carried its first passengers from Kittybrewster to Huntly in 1854. In the 1880s the railways were refurbished to give express services to the suburban parts in Aberdeen. There were junctions with the Highland Railway established to help connect Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Moray counties. The railway started to deliver goods from the North Sean and from the whisky distilleries in Speyside. With the implementation of bus services and the purchase of the British Railway the Great North of Scotland Railway was discontinued.
Name Meaning
Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Leòid ‘son of Leòd’, a patronymic from a Gaelic form of Old Norse Liótr ‘ugly’, a common personal name in medieval Norway and Iceland.
History: This is the name of a major Scottish Hebridean clan, associated in particular with Dunvegan on the isle of Skye; also, historically, with the island of Lewis. There are two main branches: the McLeods of Harris and Dunvegan (Sìol Tormoid) and the McLeods of Lewis (Sìol Torcaill). Both branches claim descent from a certain Leòd (Norse: Liótr), who lived in the 13th century. — One prominent bearer of this prominent Scottish name, Alexander McLeod (1774–1833), a Reformed Presbyterian clergyman, author, and editor, emigrated to the US in 1792 from the island of Mull in the Hebrides.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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