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Hi Susan,

I've just looked back at one set of references we have to Robert MacLeod and both the war medals card and the India family link have been looked at. Pages 2-4 of this thread.


Thank you for the link to the Tolsta Historical Society - I remember looking at that last year and it was interesting reading.


I would love to find what the link was between Diane and Evelyn G-F - friend? Music teacher? Landlady? Relative......??


Also, I think I need to put this thread into some sort of order so that people don't waste their precious time going over things which have already been looked at. Just need a bit of time really.


I am not a seasoned researcher at all......I am merely a gopher so would be really relieved if those of you who are good at research would be prepared to follow up on links.

I can do the bits and pieces.......and try to keep this thread steady...


:-D :-D :-D :-D

interesting.....

1935 Stornaway Gazette


25/1/35

WEDDING

On 3rd January, we had a very pretty and interesting Wedding in North Tolsta, when Miss Ishbel MacLeod,

53 Hill Street, became the bride of Mr. Murdo MacIver, New Street. Rev. Mr. Gillies, Stornoway, officiated. All Weddings are interesting, but this one more so, because the bride broke "new ground" by driving to and getting married in Church, a welcome innovation from the usual custom of getting married in the house, or going to Stornoway. Not only special friends, but the whole F. P. congregation had a good view of the bride, who looked really charming in her white dress and bridal veil. The bridal party had a great reception on their way from church and if the number of congratulatory telegrams and costly presents received are any indication of the newly-weds' popularity then they must be popular indeed. They received very many of both and they start their married life with the hearty congratulations and sincere good wishes of the whole community.

http://www.tolsta.info/index.php/timeline/23-1930/75-district-news-1935

I suppose this has been looked at from the National Archives online


Medal card of MacLeod, Robert. Corps: Seaforth Highlanders. Rank: Second Lieutenant....

War Office: Service Medal and Award Rolls Index, First World War. Medal card of MacLeod, Robert. Corps Regiment No Rank Seaforth Highlanders Second Lieutenant. General List Captain.

Collection:Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodiesDate range: 01 January 1914 - 31 December 1920 Reference:WO 372/13/47182Subjects:Medals, Armed Forces (General), Army, Operations, battles and campaigns, Conflict.


And this has been searched.......

http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/Home.aspx

Indeed I have searched every bliddy census avaliable for MANY hoursJonesey as have others and also the 1911 of Scotland at no small cost to Ev....
BMDs are all searched out on SP and India as well and I think most of the rest of the world.!
I give in entirely as I DO wish to keep the ONE marble that Baggage mentioned...

:-(

looking at births Leslie / London/1907+/- 1 year then looking in 1911
not finding this one only in bith index at the moment

Name:Dorothy Isabel Leslie
Date of Registration:Jul-Aug-Sep 1907
Registration district:St Marylebone
Inferred County:London
Volume:1a
Page:520

Fans/Cyn,

Probably a silly question but have you, or anyone else for that matter, looked at the 1900 and 1911 Scottish census records or indeed earlier census records for Stornoway to try to find someone who may have been "Aunt Kate"?.

If the report of Aunt Kate's demise at the age of c104 in the late 1940's or as late as 1952 is indeed true then she would have been born between say 1842 and 1848. Kate of course might not have been her given name but a diminutive of Catherine, Cathrine, Catherina, Katherine, Kathrine, Kaitlyn, Katelin or even just a family pet name which wouldn't exactly help much.

Hi Cynthia (& everyone)
I have followed this thread from the start, but I am not a seasoned researcher like your good selves! I have been going through from the start trying to pick up any pertinent info, but an hour or more in and I'm not a quarter of the way through!

It just strikes me as rather co-incidental that we have links between Leslie & Fenwicks - is it more than just coincidence that Evelyn Goddard Fenwick is godmother to Diane's daughter 'our Ev'?

I was trying to find the info where some research was carried out in EGF, but haven't happened upon it this evening and its time for me bed :-S

I think that somewhere in this thread is the answer, but what that is remains as mysterious as Diane herself!

Vanessa

Baggage??? :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P

Chris Ho :)
Thank you for that...I shall take it as easy as Baggage,grandson aged 5 Mr Hurricane(now returned)8 dogs and an annoying but loved HID allows.

Keep telling him that if we were married I would divorce him.!

Have employed a cleaner now...Poor woman has her work cut out once a week restoring the place to some sort of order..:D

You are all doing sterling work and I and Ev can not thank you all enough....

Fans

Still got most of yer marbles indeed!! What, all ONE of 'em????


Don't go mollycoddling her Chris.......she is such a stubborn old bat at times I can tell you!!! ;-)


Ooops.....I thought 91 sounded a bit young.....sorry bout that :-(


Glad the old bat remembered about Bill Lawson.....saves me trawling through the pages again.... :-D


Anything is possible with this story so please, keep up the good work. I'm not sure if the possibility of Diane's 1st Christian name being Leslie was thought about.......can you take it any further Vanessa?

Back later.

You take things easy FBG, no overdoing it, lol.

As Cynthia says, if something more concrete was available for said Bill, a 'whip round' would be quickly arranged!.

Chris :)

Yes I read your message Baggage..!
A MINUTE to read all this?...I know I am good but not THAT good..:P


Correction coming up Baggage


Just before the search drew to a halt last year, Evelyn remembered her mother reading a local newspaper (Dorset?)in the early 1950's and finding either an article or an obituary about a very old lady who had died in Stornoway aged 91. She stated that it was Aunt Kate.

She was said to 104 and NOT 91..And all Ev can remember it was after the war finished as she remembers...But before 1952
.I did find a Catherine Macleod aged 107 when she died on Isle of Lewis.....And had lived on...INDIA STREET..
Its on here somewhere.
Got a bit of way with that with help but no end result.

I really do not know where to look next and so I will have call time I think and let all these other very good suggestions/ideas worked on..

I no longer am able to concentrate or type as long as I used to....But at least I still have most of me marbles and can get about so I am most grateful for that..

I nor Evelyn think she WAS born in India as she told a son of hers Fort George,Scotland..!
We feel certain,Evelyn and I)Diane is NOT her real name and that she is most likely illegitimate..

Oh yea...Bill Lawson was looked at as was another Scots expert but the cost is too high.....Unless Ev wins the lottery of course...>:)
Fans

Good morning........that link business is weird indeed - just tried it........ :-S

Had a quick look at the recommended site..........have you seen the costs? :-0 :-0


I would certainly contact the gentleman if we had a bit more solid evidence to give him. At the moment though, this story could have it's origins in Timbuctoo!


Vanessa, I like the thinking about the Fenwick/Leslie link.......so will go and check if FBG has read my message yet.


Knowing her, she's probably avoiding me like the plague ;-)


I have a really busy day today so, if I don't reply quickly, please don't think I am being rude. :-)

Given the Fenwick/Leslie link, is it possible that Diane was Leslie (I think this has been looked into) and adopted the MacLeod name from living with Aunt Kate?

This record shows the father of George Dunlop Leslie:

George Dunlop Leslie
England, Marriages, 1538–1973

marriage: 20 Jul 1871 St. Mary'S, Ealing, Middlesex, England
>>>parents:Charles Robert Leslie
spouse:Lydia Fenwick

Quite interesting the middle name of Charles!! Another co-incidence?

Birth of John Fenwick Leslie??


Births Dec 1875 (>99%)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LESLIE John Fenwick Marylebone 1a 575

Weird.....your link works ok

Strange because if you google Bill Lawson, Isle of Harris

This comes up

Co Leis Thu?...Seallam Visitor Centre, Isle of Harris

And that links to

http://www.seallam.com/coleisthu.htm

Going that route seems to work okay

Cynthia ....the link takes one to a web page that says Page cannot be found...

Thanks for that.....I will ask FBG to take a looksee when she has a moment. :-D


I have 'spoken' on line to Anthony Adolph - GR's resident genealogist, and he has asked me if we have spoken to the following gentleman...

Bill Lawson at http://www.seallam.com/coleisthu.htm.


To be perfectly honest, it is now too late at night for me to remember and I will have to plough back through the last 4 years. Just wondered if the name rings any immediate bells with anyone??


Night all......zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Interesting about the John Fenwick Leslie!!!