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James,
I'm a different Ronald to the previous respondant, and have some information that may help on this person..
From “The MacLeods – Genealogy of a Clan Section Two: The MacLeods of Talisker, Berneray, Orbost, Luskintyre, Hamer, Greshornish, Uilinish and Dalvey” by the late Rev. Dr Donald MacKinnon, D. Litt., and Aleck Morrison, M.A. (Hons.) Published by Associated Clan MacLeod Societies.
page 31 para 5 reads:
5. “JAMES, fifth son of Sir Norman MacLeod of Berneray, was born about 1668. He leased farmlands in Ireland at Drummond, near Newton Limavady in County Derry. He was married and had, at least, two sons:
(1) James, who married Hannah Johnston.
(2) John, who married Jane Carr, with issue:
(a) James, a teacher, who emigrated to Nova Scotia in 1760. He was unmarried.
(b) John, who also emigrated to Nova Scotia in 1760 and married Alice Harrington in 1764, with issue:
C1 William, 1765-1840, who married
(1) Lucy Crowe and (2) Deborah Nickerson.
C2 Ebenezer, 1767-1849, who married Dorcas Gardner.
C3 James, 1772-1855, was a shipbuilder. He and other members of a Liverpool privateer were pressed into the crew of a British man o’ war. He escaped and reached the West Indies, where he was rescued by another Liverpool privateer, commanded by Captain Joseph Barrs, Sen. He then became a lighthouse keeper and evolved the first revolving light in Nova Scotia. He married Mary Murray, who was descended from Richard Warren, one of the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620. They had issue:…”
The text continues from here for several pages with descendants up to the letter “H” , the book is available from the Clan MacLeod website at:
http://www.clanmacleod.org/merchandising/books.php
And much of the basic lineage can be found at:
http://www.macleodgenealogy.org/ACMS/D0066/I1793.html
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