Brief Life History of Charles
When Charles McLeod was born on 30 August 1870, in Comoros, his father, Edward Miles McLeod, was 23 and his mother, Caroline Green, was 19. He died on 5 September 1889, in his hometown, at the age of 19, and was buried in Worth, Missouri, United States.
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- Charles F Mc Leod in household of Edward M Mc Leod, "United States Census, 1880"
- Charles F. McLeod, "Find A Grave Index"
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1872 · The Amnesty Act
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1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.
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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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