Scott MacLeod’s (aka Gordon Kenneth MacLeod III) Family History

Gordon Kenneth MacLeod MD side of family (father's):

I'm researching the MacLeod family from Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada. James Edward McLeod (which he spelled MacLeod when he moved to the U.S.) was probably born on the Isle of Raasay in Inverness-shire, Scotland in the 1820s (1824?, or 1829?). He emigrated to PEI in 1839. He was married twice, and had 17 children, and was a tailor and kilt maker in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. He then emigrated from Canada to the U.S.A. circa 1895. He died on January 5, 1899, in Boston, Massachusetts (having lived for 70? years), and was buried in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. His gravestone can be found in the Boston area. Who came before him?

My first cousin, Mark Kenneth MacLeod (a family genealogist, significantly), has discovered recently (spring 2020) that James MacLeod's parents were Norman John MacLeod (c. 1795-1862) and Isobel MacKenzie ( -1880) from the Isle of Raasay, Scotland.

I'm primarily interested in genealogical and biographical information about the following people.

James Edward MacLeod married his first wife, Ann Bulger, July 4, 1850. They had 8 kids, of whom 6 survived. Who came before her? Her parents were Philip Bulger and Mary Duffy.

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 on PEI? No – Henry and Frederick were born in Halifax). Ernest James MacLeod was my great grandfather, one of whose sons Gordon had Gordon (1929-2007) (http://www.pitt.edu/~gmacleod), who is my father. Who came before Margaret Barnes? Her parents were Edward Barnes and Catherine Duffy.

My father, Gordon K. MacLeod MD, was an Internal Medicine MD, and a Professor of Public Health. He was also the Secretary of Health in the State of Pennsylvania responsible for handling the Three Mile Island nuclear catastrophe in 1979, as well as president of the faculty senate at the University of Pittsburgh toward the end of his career there (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_K._MacLeod).

My parents, Gordon Kenneth MacLeod MD and Janet Kirkbride Brown MacLeod (1935-) have two children, myself and my brother Sandy, aka Alexander Brown MacLeod (https://socratessculpturepark.org/artist/sandy-macleod/ was: http://sandysculpture.com).

In addition, I'm researching the Mary Glynn family, my great grandmother who married my great grandfather Ernest MacLeod. She was born in St. John's, Newfoundland. Who came before Mary Glynn? Her parents were John T Glynn and Catherine O’Brien (and her grandparents are available in my cousin Mark K. MacLeod's Ancestry.com family tree - https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/154485576/family?cfpid=242040162889 - if you're interested).

I'm also researching Margaret Driscoll MacLeod, and her father's and mother's families. As I understand it she was born in Ireland, and moved to the United States around when she was 1 years old. 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? Timothy Driscoll and possibly Joanna Hays, and Daniel Ryan and Mary McGrath.

My father's eldest brother was Francis Ernest MacLeod, a Harvard student, who went also to Boston Latin School (like my father), before he died in WWII in the Vosges mountains in France at around 20 years of age. His younger siblings were Mary Regina MacLeod Kennedy, my father Gordon Kenneth MacLeod MD, Paul Roger MacLeod, and Bruce Vincent MacLeod. Bruce is the father of Mark K. MacLeod, and was a favorite uncle, and a Quaker too.

Janet 'Janie' Kirkbride Brown MacLeod side of family (mother's):

My mother's father's father was

Alden Hugh Brown (1869-1919) and he married Martha Holway Chadbourne (1871-1909), who died in childbirth, having given birth to a) Alexander "Sandy" Chadbourne Brown, my mother's father, so my grandfather, b) Mary Chadbourne Brown, and c) Martha Holway Brown Briscoe ("Aunt Marf"). Sandy and Rachel Gilbert Brown had Theodore "Ted" Chadbourne Brown, and Janet "Janie" Kirkbride Brown MacLeod (my mother), Mary Chadbourne Brown had Edward "Denny" Titus MD, and Martha HB Briscoe, with John "Jack" D Briscoe, had John and Alden Frank Briscoe, all favorite uncles, cousins and family members of mine. My grandfather, Sandy Brown (ACB), studied at MIT for 2 degrees in chemical engineering in the 1920s (something like a BS and MS) I think, and went to Phillips Exeter Academy for high school, and had 9 patents to his name regarding fatty acids; he also played the western classical piano beautifully.

Benjamin Lincoln (January 24, 1733 (O.S. January 13, 1732) – May 9, 1810), in the Chadbourne line, received the sword of surrender (as a major general) from the British 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 (1831-1900) 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 in Texas is named after him. Who came before them?

I also want to begin to understand further the generations from Judge Benjamin Chadbourne to Sarah Bolles in the Theodore "Lincoln" Chadbourne family tree, and regarding his father Lt. Col. Alexander Scammell Chadbourne (1831-1900) too. I think Theodore "Lincoln" Chadbourne, and his wife Virginia "Ginny" Knox Chadbourne, may have raised when little, in Vinton, Iowa, my grandfather, Sandy Brown (ACB), Mary Chadbourne Brown and Martha H. Brown Briscoe (Janie Kirkbride Brown MacLeod and Alden Frank Briscoe's parents - my mother and her first cousin).This was after ACB's father, Alden Hugh Brown, a mining engineer - (such as yourself in a way, Mark K. MacLeod?) - had died in Colombia, South America (see NY Times' article). Sandy (ACB), Mary & Martha Brown's mother, Martha Holway Chadbourne (Alden's grandmother) had died in childbirth - in giving birth to Martha Holway Brown Briscoe (1909-1999).

Sarah Bolles (20 Jan 1656 - 1694), who married Humphrey Chadbourne (10 generations back from this 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" and, also - https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Bolles-Family-Tree-66): "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." "

Here’s what the online Encyclopedia Britannica said about Edward I’s parents:

"Edward was the eldest son of King Henry III* and Eleanor of Provence*. In 1254 he was given the duchy of Gascony, the French Oléron, the Channel Islands, Ireland, Henry's lands in Wales, and the earldom of Chester, as well as several castles. Henry negotiated Edward's marriage with Eleanor of Castile*, half sister of Alfonso X of Leon and Castile. Edward married Eleanor at Las Huelgas in Spain (October 1254) and then traveled to Bordeaux to organize his scattered appanage. He now had his own household and officials, chancery and seal, with an exchequer (treasury) at Bristol Castle; though nominally governing all his lands, he merely enjoyed the revenues in Gascony and Ireland. He returned to England in November 1255 and attacked Llywelyn ap Gruffudd*, prince of Gwynedd, to whom his Welsh subjects had appealed for support when Edward attempted to introduce English administrative units in his Welsh lands. Edward, receiving no help from either Henry or the marcher lords, was defeated ignominiously. His arrogant lawlessness and his close association with his greedy Poitevin uncles, who had accompanied his mother from France, increased Edward's unpopularity among the English. But after the Poitevins were expelled, Edward fell under the influence of Simon de Montfort*, his uncle by marriage, with whom he made a formal pact. Montfort was the leader of a baronial clique that was attempting to curb the misgovernment of Henry." (See, too: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-III-king-of-England-1207-1272 and  https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eleanor-of-Provence and https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eleanor-of-Castile and https://www.britannica.com/biography/Llywelyn-ap-Gruffudd and https://www.britannica.com/biography/Simon-de-Montfort-earl-of-Leicester).

"Edward I* reluctantly accepted the Provisions of Oxford* (1258), which gave effective government to the barons at the expense of the king. On the other hand, he intervened dramatically to support the radical Provisions of Westminster* (October 1259), which ordered the barons to accept reforms demanded by their tenants...” The Encyclopedia Britannica continues for many more pages about Edward I (https://www.britannica.com/event/Provisions-of-Oxford and https://www.britannica.com/topic/Provisions-of-Westminster and from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-I-king-of-England accessed July 19, 2020).

But I haven't yet been able to learn the generations between Sarah Bolles and Edward I.

Jeremiah 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. (I recall learning this from my grandmother, Rachel Gilbert Brown, too. Granny Brown was both an 'oral historian,' - she talked a lot :) - and interested in family genealogy. She seemed especially interested in her husband Grandpa Sandy Brown's family history). Here's a newly found reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_O%27Brien. I think it's likely to be through Harriet O'Brien Holway (Born 5 Sep 1830), wife of Alexander Scammell Chadbourne, and daughter of John O'Brien Holway.

I'm also interested in who came before my great grandfather Alden Hugh Brown, a mining engineer. James A. Brown ( 1833-1903), and Ellen K. Brown (1847-1921). Ellen K. Brown's parents were Alden Crandall (1793–1866) and Augusta Henrietta Crandall (1808–1889). Did James A. Brown have roots in Scotland? Ellen Brown too? Who came before them?

My mother's mother's father was Oscar Gilbert MD of Boulder Colorado, who married Agnes Kirkbride who also had roots in Missouri, Virginia, and Colorado. Some of Agnes Kirkbride's forbears, one named Jane Horn, came from Kirbythor and Appleby in the north of England, not far from Newcastle-on-Tyne. My grandmother received some heirlooms from her, because her mother assisted Jane Horn financially at some point, I think. How does she fit into the line?

My mother’s mother, Rachel Gilbert Brown, who had a great interest in family history also said that we have a Native American Cherokee ancestor, only a few generations before her. Where does he (I think) fit in the line?

Some of Oscar Gilbert MD's ancestors, the Powells, came from Virginia in the late 1700's. Cragheads are another family name in this line, I think. Who came before them?

There's possibly another Native American ancestor from Virginia (per cousin Susan Gilbert Harvey) in this line.

Ma, am finding the Scottish identity themes playing out here further - in my studying for 2 separate years in Scotland (1977-'78 & 2003-'04), playing the bagpipes (formerly the highland pipes, and now the Scottish small pipes), in family NAMES - and am exploring it also in this family history here - http://scottmacleod.com/ScottMacLeodFamilyHistory.htm - which is growing. I want to ask you more about the names, like Monroe in your grandfather's name, and am curious too about James A Brown, Grandpa Sandy Brown (ACB)'s grandfather, and re Scotland too. What do you recall of James A. Brown if anything? :) (July 23, 2020 -  https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/olrogs-gull-pastoral-care-and-academic.html).

And what will genetic genealogy research show?

New information?

sgkmacleod@gmail.com is my email if you'd like to communicate further about family genealogy or scott@scottmacleod.com. I've posted much of what I know and further questions I have here.

Scott (or Scotty)
(GKM3rd)
home - http://scottmacleod.com

(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com - I blog daily, and see, for example, the 'Gordon K. MacLeod MD' blog label: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Gordon%20K.%20MacLeod%20MD - who was my father; see the 'genes' label as well).

Here's my family web page - http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm - my web site (different from this one - http://scottmacleod.com/ScottMacLeodFamilyHistory.htm).

References

Bacon, Elaine. c1994. The Chadbourne Family in America: A Family Genealogy. Penobscot, Maine: Penobscot Press.

Chadourne.org/Gen3 Third Generation. 2017. http://www.chadbourne.org/Gen3.html (re: Chadbourne line, Sarah Bolles and Edward I). (accessed July 19, 2020).

Corder, Jim W. 1993. Hunting Lieutenant Chadbourne. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press.

Edward I. Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-I-king-of-England, (accessed July 19, 2020).

Harvey, Susan Gilbert, my first cousin once removed - knowledgeable about the Gilbert family.

Horan, Nancy. 2007. Loving Frank. New York, NY: Ballantine Books.

MacLeod MD, Gerrard, my first cousin - knowledgeable about MacLeod family history.

MacLeod, Mark K, my first cousin - knowledgeable about MacLeod family history. Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/162331043/person/252114646954//facts (accessed July 19, 2020).

MacLeod III, Scott Gordon Kenneth (1960- ). Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/account/profile/07376f97-0006-0000-0000-000000000000 or https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/162331043/person/252114291549/facts (accessed July 19, 2020).

MacLeod III, Scott Gordon Kenneth (1960- ). Blogspot.com, http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com - I blog daily, and see, for example, the 'Gordon K. MacLeod MD' blog label: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Gordon%20K.%20MacLeod%20MD - who was my father; see the 'genes' label as well). (accessed July 19, 2020).

MacLeod III, Scott Gordon Kenneth (1960- ). Genealogy.com (formerly Family Tree Maker), http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/m/a/c/Gordon-K-Macleod-iii/index.html (accessed July 19, 2020).

MacLeod III, Scott Gordon Kenneth (1960- ). 2020. "Gordon K (Scott) MacLeod III's of Santa Barbara California:Index of Individuals": https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/m/a/c/Gordon-K-Macleod/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-Index.html (accessed July 23, 2020).

MacLeod III, Scott Gordon Kenneth (1960- ). WikiTree,  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524 (accessed July 19, 2020).

Weis, Frederick Lewis. (Compiled by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr.). 2004. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists (8th Edition). Baltimore, Maryland: Geneaological Publishing Society.

Wikipedia. 2020. Jeremiah O'Brien entry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_O%27Brien (accessed July 19, 2020).

WikiTree The Free Family Tree platform. 2020. (accessed July 19, 2020).

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