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Marriage: Children:
  1. Rachael McLeod: Birth: 1829 in Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Death: 5 APR 1905 in Lismore, NSW, Australia

  2. Donald Kenneth McLeod: Birth: 1832 in Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Death: 18 OCT 1915 in Tumbulgum, Australia

  3. Anne McLeod: Birth: 30 APR 1834 in Tobermory, Scotland. Death: 1837 in during voyage of Brilliant

  4. Norman McLeod: Birth: 2 JUL 1835 in Tobermory, Scotland. Death: 1836 in Scotland

  5. John McLeod: Birth: 1838 in Isle of Skye, Scotland. Death: 1 JAN 1912 in Maclean, NSW, Australia

  6. Ann McLeod: Birth: 5 SEP 1839 in Woodville, Australia. Death: 17 AUG 1914 in "Glenelg" 55 Kensington Road, Summer Hill, NSW, Australia

  7. Norman MacLeod: Birth: 1841 in Hunter Valley, Australia. Death: 25 JAN 1921 in Ulmarra, Australia

  8. William McLeod: Birth: 1844 in Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia. Death: 16 JAN 1920 in Grafton, Australia

  9. Christina McLeod: Birth: 1 SEP 1847 in Woodville, Hunter Valley, Australia. Death: 17 APR 1940 in Dulwich Hill, Sydney, Australia

  10. Margaret McLeod: Birth: 1 JUN 1850 in Woodville, Hunter Valley, Australia. Death: 27 OCT 1932 in Grafton District Hospital, Australia


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Notes
a. Note:   Therre was an Allan McCaskill who arrived on the Brilliant aged 31. He was a carpender with one child. He went to work for C Boydell Esq of Paterson for 50 pounds plus a ration. He isn't noted on the passenger list but on the supplementary papers.
  The Clarence and Richmond Examiner of Tuesday November 17 had a paragraph about Christina's death saying that she arrived in Ulmarra around 1862 and that she had been confined to bed from 1887 and was 86 when she died. It also mentioned that she had been buried the previous Sunday which would have been 15th November.
  Death has overtaken one of the oldest and most respected residents of the Clarence, Mrs McLeod, last Saturday. She came from Scotland with her husband Angus, in the year 1837, and about 25 years after took up their abode at the place where her death took place. Her husband died in 1882, at the age of 81. Five years afterwards Mrs McLeod was taken seriously ill, and was confined to her bed up to the time of her decease, at the age of 86. Four sons and four daughters, besides a number of grandchildren are left to mourn their loss. During life both gained the respect and esteem of everyone who knew them, and this was testified by the large large number attending the funeral at the Grafton cemetery on Sunday.
  The murder of Allan & Mary McAskill who I suspect were relatives of Christina. This article was sent to me from Allan McAskill of Glenelg a distant relative of ours
  THE KILLING OF THE MCASKILLS
  Renovations carried out recently to an ancient tombstone in the Church of England churchyard cemetery at Stroud brings to mind a tragedy that occurred in that area in 1878, or nearly one hundred years ago.
  The tombstone bears the name of Alan and Mary MacAskill who left Glenelg in the Western Highlands of Scotland shortly after their marriage, and came to Australia by sailing ship in 1837.
 In the course of their six-month journey a daughter whom they named Jane, was born to them. Jane was subsequently married to William Farley and lived with him to a ripe old age on their farm at Stroud Road.
 Upon arrival in Australia, the MacAskills first settled on the Allyn River, but after a few years they moved to the Booral Wharf area where they acquired a farm. Here this quiet and highly-respected couple lived for many years until they lost their lives under tragic circumstances.
  It was on the 30th January 1878 that Alan drove stock to Maitland for disposal at the sale-yards. According to information provided by people who saw him on his way back, it was after dark when he reached home. A neighbour who had seen the glow of a fire that night on the MacAskill's property called the next day to see what it was all about, and found the timber house burned to the ground; he also found Allan's horse hitched to the harness shed and the saddle lay on the ground behind the horse, there was however no sign of life about the farm.
  Blacktrackers were used by the police and Allan's body was found some distance away in a deep gully in the bush where it had been dragged by what was obviously a murderer who had made his attack just as Allan had removed the saddle from his horse. There was little doubt that the purpose of the killer was to rob Allan of the money he had received that day for his stock.
  It was deduced that the killer's next move was to destroy any evidence as to his identity. In order to do this, he battered Mary to death and set fire to the house. It was gathered that the old lady had been doing some needlework at the time, while awaiting her husbands return, as her thimble, blackened by the fire, was found lying beside her charred body.
  The perpetrator of the crime left the scene with nothing unless it were a scar on his conscience as it was found later that Alan had been paid for the sale of his stock by cheque, while baking-powder tins full of sovereigns melted by the fire lay amongst the ashes of the burned out fire-place. The tins had no-doubt been hidden in the chimneystack for safe keeping.
  The murderer was never brought to book. While there eas a fairly general belief in the district at the time as to who carried out the crime, insufficient evidence was available to justify an arrest being made. The matter therefore remains as one of the unsolved crimes of the past - a crime that created widespread interest and one that has been told of again and again as a "mystery" story around the fireside of more than one subsequent generation.
  A well-known Sydney fortune-teller of the day fore-told that the killer would confess to the crime on his death-bed. The measure of time dictates that he (the killer) must have passed on ere this, and should he have made the confession, the fact was never publicised. Doubt is therefore cast on the saying that "murder will out", but good Christians will stand fast in the belief that, while the one who killed escaped the judgement of men, he has not escaped the judgement of God.
  The inscription on the tombstone erected in the churchyard at Stroud as a memorial to Alan and Mary MacAskill by their daughter, Jane, reads;
  "In loving memory of Alan and Mary McAskill
 who were murdered at Booral Wharf on 30th January 1878. They were married in 1835
 and lived together 43 years in the love and fear
 of God, and in their death they were not divided.
  "Vengeance is mine : I will repay, saith The Lord.
 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him:
 And if he thirst, give him drink.""
  (contributed by "OLD-TIMER")



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