James Farquharson MACLEOD (C.M.G.)

Father: Martin Donald MACLEOD
Mother: Jane FRY

Family 1: Mary DREVER
  1. Helen Rothney MACLEOD
  2. Norman Torquil MACLEOD
  3. Mary MACLEOD
  4. Roma MACLEOD
  5. Jane MACLEOD 
                                                                                _Norman Mor MACLEOD __
                                                 _Donald MACLEOD ______________|_Miss M. MACKENZIE ___
                          _Norman MACLEOD ______|
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                         |                      |_Catherine MUNRO _____________|______________________
 _Martin Donald MACLEOD _|
|                        |                                                      _John MACLEOD ________
|                        |                       _Donald 'Old_Trojan' MACLEOD _|_Isabel MACKENZIE ____
|                        |_Alexandrina MACLEOD _|
|                                               |                               _Rev. Donald MACLEOD _
|                                               |_Margaret MACLEOD ____________|_Anne MACLEAN ________
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|--James Farquharson MACLEOD 
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|_Jane FRY ______________|
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!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1970, pp. 148-149. James Farquharson, C.M.G.,... was born in 1836, and joined the Mounted Police of Canada, in which he became a Lieutenant-Colonel at Fort MacLeod, and of which he was appointed Commissioner in 1876. he was a B.A. of Queen's College, Kingston, and was called to the Bar in 1860. He volunteered for military service and distinguished himself in the Trent Affair 1861, the suppression of Fenian Raids in 1866, and the Reil Rebellion 1869-70. In 1880, Commissioner MacLeod, whose "name had become a byword as that of a remarkably fair and fearless adminsitrator, became Stipendiary Magistrate for the Northwest Territories". For the great andvaluaable services he rendered he was created a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. He died, on 5th September 1894, at Calgary, Alberta, aged fifty years. A tablet to his memory was unveiled, on 12th September 1948, in the Chapel of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at the Barracks, Regina. He married Mary Drever of Winnipeg in 1876, daughter of William Drever and his wife, Helen Rothney, with issue.

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