Family Histories
MacLeods of P.E.I.
MacLeods of P.E.I.
Title: The MacLeods of Prince Edward Island
Author: Harold S. MacLeod (1927-2014)
Publisher: Clan MacLeod of P.E.I., Montague, P.E.I.: 1986 (Reprint 1992)
Description: Large 8vo. 391pp + 76pp appendix of Cemetery Transcriptions from the files at Beaconsfield, Charlottetown (compiled by Tilly MacLeod). Illustrated with photo-images and line drawings. Bound in dark blue library cloth with gilt titles on front panel and spine. In the Preface, the author/editor writes the reprint “is in response to a great number of requests from both Canada and, particularly, the United States. A few new families have been added as well as additional information added to the families included in the first printing.” Cover shows minor edge wear. Binding tight. Bookbinder’s label on front endpaper. Gift inscription in ink (dated 1992) on the front free endpaper. Interior pages show occasional underlining and other marks from usage.
From the Introduction: “The total population of P.E.I. that year (1798) was forty-five hundred people. The next fifty years, however, was to witness a flood of emigrants from the Highlands of Scotland. The first wave came in 1803 with the arrival of three ships; the Polly, the Dyke, and the Oughton from the ‘the great colonizer’, the Earl of Selkirk, and landing at Belfast, P.E.I. There were a number of families with the name MacLeod in this group. In the year 1811, some of the heads of families of the Belfast Parish presented R. Angus MacAulay with a letter of thanks for his services to the Parish. The list of names included eleven MacLeods, among others.”
The MacLeods of Prince Edward Island is described online as “an invaluable reference book for anyone descended from the MacLeods (and McLeods) who came from Scotland to Prince Edward Island, as well as for those interested in genealogy, family history, and the history of Scottish immigration to North America.”