Birth: 1/28/1805, Campsie, Scotland

Baptism: 3/2/1806 [1]

Marriage: 6/28/1843 at St. James Anglican, Orillia, Simcoe County, Ontario [18]

Spouse: Margaret McLeod (1814-1866) born in Scotland

Death: ?/?/1892, buried in Hillsdale Presbyterian Cemetery, Hillsdale, Ontario, Canada

Biography:

Malcom McLeod (1805) was the oldest of Malcom (1785) and Catherine and was born on January 28, 1805, and baptized on March 2, 1806 [1]. As far as we can tell, Malcom (1805) immigrated to Canada in 1829 with his brother John to become a farmer near Hillsdale, Ontario [6, 8]. Malcom’s brother John was listed as a passenger on a ship called the St. Lawrence traveling from Quebec to Montreal on September 30^th, 1829. The second line on the passenger list is a J. McLeod and two others. We assume that John’s brothers Malcom and Cameron are the two others on the list. Family history passed down from John McLeod also notes that John immigrated with two brothers. Malcom settled near Hillsdale, Ontario on Lot 52, Concession 2, Medonte township, Simcoe County [10]. He married Margaret McLeod (as far as we know unrelated to our McLeods) on June 28, 1843 at St. James Anglican in Orillia Ontario [18]. Margaret McLeod was the daughter of Donald McLeod and Margaret Macfarlane and was born in Buchanan, Sterling, Scotland. Donald McLeod settled near John McLeod near Rugby, Ontario. It is likely that Malcom and Margaret meet at a family gathering near Rugby.

Malcom (1805) and Margaret McLeod Family Tree

They had four children that survived to adulthood (Catherine, Christina, Malcolm Gray, and Isabella) and three children that died young (Margaret, Isabella, Mary) [9]. Malcom’s daughter Catherine was the only child that married (Francis Greenlaw – 1850-1932), but none of their children survived. When Christina died in 1936, her first cousins inherited the estate [9]. The two McLeod families and the Rutherford family from the Orillia area must have had interesting relationships as they seemed to be all interconnected (see diagram and maps) and lived relatively close to one another.