Dickson and Leslie Family Histories
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15, 1867, farmer, St John's Wells, Aberdeenshire, d.1945, m. Jeanie Lee. 4.1.3.5.1 John Sleigh III, born 1899, a farmer, died 1980, Newseat of Toloquhon, Aberdeenshire. 4.1.3.5.1.1 Jack Sleigh. 4.1.3.5.1.2 Bill Sleigh. 4.1.3.5.1.3 David Sleigh, farms nr London, Ont. 4.1.3.5.1.4 - 4.1.3.5.1.5 Two others. 4.1.3.5.2 Christine Sleigh, born 1901, married Leslie Duno of Aberdeen and died in 1980. The Dunos are another famous Scottish farming family. 4.1.3.5.3 Alex Sleigh, born 1905, died 1975, farmer at Mains of Toloquhon. Two sons, one daughter. 4.1.3.5.4 Henry (Harry) Patrick Sleigh, born 1907 at St John's Wells, married Margaret Cran, born in 1910. They bought their farm in 1926. 4.1.3.5.4.1 Lesley Sleigh, born 1935, married Gordon Miller. 4.1.3.5.4.1.1 Karen Miller, born 1962. 4.1.3.5.4.1.2 Derek Miller, born 1965. 4.1.3.5.4.1.3 Rachel Miller, born 1970. 4.1.3.5.4.2 Marjorie Sleigh, born 1938, married Wilson Martin. 4.1.3.5.4.3 Harry Sleigh, born 1939, married Ann Stewart of St John's Wells. 4.1.3.5.4.3.1 Harry Sleigh, born 1968. 4.1.3.5.4.3.2 John Sleigh V, born 1969. 4.1.3.5.4.2.3 Susan Sleigh, born 1970. 4.1.3.5.4.4 Judith Sleigh, born 1944, now with the Scottish Tourist Bureau in Edinburgh. 4.1.3.5.5 Charles Sleigh, Pitmedden, Aberdeenshire, died 1986, married Marjorie Philip. 4.1.3.5.5.1 Michael Sleigh. 4.1.3.5.5.2 Vera Sleigh. 4.1.3.5.5.3 Charles Patrick Sleigh. 4.1.3.6 George Baird Sleigh, born July 9, 1872, a doctor in Aboyne and Aylith, died 1927. On Sept. 20, 1917, m. Marie Marnoch Fraser, daughter of William Smith Fraser, general merchant, and Sara Elizabeth Wattie. 4.1.3.6.1 John Sleigh IV, born October 17, 1918, at Camden Cottage, Aboyne. A doctor in Edinburgh. 4.1.3.6.2 Gordon Sleigh. 4.1.3.6.3 Rhona Sleigh, born 1927. 4.1.3.7 Henry Paterson Sleigh, born 1875, a doctor in Ipswich, England, died in 1930, married Kate Elliott, who was born in 1874, and died in 1930. 4.1.3.7.1 John Graham Sleigh, born 1905, a doctor, retired in Essex, died 1986. He married Mary Eychon who died in 1981. 4.1.3.7.1.1 Shirley Sleigh, born 1932. 4.1.3.7.1.2 Penelope Sleigh, born 1936, married Nick Farley. 4.1.3.7.1.2.1 Clare Farley, born 1962. 4.1.3.7.1.2.2 Edward Farley, born 1964. 4.1.3.7.1.2.3 Alice Farley, born 1965. 4.1.3.7.1.3 Sara Sleigh,b.1943,m.Wm L.Sleigh. 4.1.3.7.1.3.1 Robert Sleigh, born 1970. 4.1.3.7.2 Adam Hunter Sleigh, born 1911, married Rosemary Burlage. 4.1.3.7.2.1 Susan Sleigh, born 1946, married Alastair Gordon. 4.1.3.7.2.1.1 Penelope Gordon, 1970. 4.1.3.7.2.1.2 Kate Gordon, 1973. Susan's second husband was Peter. 4.1.3.7.2.2 John Patrick Sleigh, born 1946, headmaster, King Edward's School, King's Lynn, Norfolk, married Susan Deutsch. 4.1.3.7.2.2.1 Richard Sleigh, born 1976. 4.1.3.7.2.2.2 Andrew Sleigh, born 1979. 4.1.3.7.2.3 James Henry Sleigh, born 1961, married Margaret Cooper. 4.1.3.7.2.3.1 Thomas Sleigh, born 1985. 4.1.4 Charles Sleigh, born April 30, 1827. 4.1.5 Elspet Sleigh, born Feb. 7, christened March 28, 1828. 4.1.6 Peter Sleigh III, born Aug. 21, chr. September 30,1832. 5. Peter Sleigh, christened September 19, 1759. 6. Patterick Sleigh, born February 25, 1762. Sligh-Wightman Thomas Sligh, christened April 1, 1756, died November 27, 1838, married Margaret Wightman, born 1761, died May 28, 1838. The tombstone in the Old Churchyead at Preston, Berwickshire, bearing the names of Peter Sleigh , late feuar in Preston, and spouse Janet Shiel, also includes Thomas Sligh and his wife Margaret Wightman. 1. Peter Sligh II, born 1785 or 1786. See Sligh-Brown. While we have not found documentary proof that Peter Sligh II was the son of Thomas and Margaret (Wightman) Sligh, at least one Sleigh researcher holds the opinion that Peter II is a grandson of Peter Sligh and Janet Shiel. He would then be a son of either Thomas, John, Peter or Patterick Sligh. His eldest son being named Thomas and his second daughter being named Margaret, and applying the traditional Scottish formula for the naming of children, it can be assumed that his parents were Thomas and Margaret Sligh. Sligh-Brown Peter Sligh II, a flesher, born in 1785 or '86. On May 13, 1829 he became a Burgess of Lauder and owned a "Burgess acre", entitling him to keep a cow on the common ground, which he did. All of this is documented on a certificate written by the Town Court of the Royal Burgess of Lauder. Peter Sligh died March 23, 1849. His wife, Jean Brown, was baptized on April 2, 1786, and died October 11, 1853 at Lauder, Berwickshire. She was the daughter of Thomas Brown, a younger mason of Rummingtonlaw, Berwickshire, and his wife Isobel Johnston, who were married May 10, 1785 at Gordon, Berwickshire. Peter and Jean (Brown) Sligh's children were all born at Lauder, Berwickshire: 1. Isabella Sligh, born August 8, 1809, died October 20, 1835. 2. Margaret Sligh, born July 16, 1811, died February 10, 1818. 3. Alison Sligh, born May 6, 1813, married an Edinburgh merchant, James Ballantyne, and died January 20,1852. 4. Jane A. Sligh, born September 16, 1815, died Sepember 16, 1867. 5. Thomas Sligh, born 1817, died December 23, 1839. 6. John Sligh, born July 24, 1819. 7. Peter Sleigh, born January 2, 1823, died of cardiac disease and pulmonary congestion at 15 Brunton Terrace, Edinburgh, February 5, 1892. Farmed at Lauder where he was also a Burgess. On June 18, 1852 he married Mary Millar, born 1830, daughter of James Millar, crofter of Lauder (b.1812) and Elizabeth Thomson (b.1809) whose son was Thomas Millar, a draper (b. 1834). In 1881 Peter and Mary Sleigh moved to Edinburgh where Mary died of pneumonia at 16 East Mayfield on December 11, 1909. Their children were born at Lauder: 7.1 Elizabeth Sleigh, born June 27, 1853, died February 21, 1906. 7.2 Peter Sleigh II, cycle agent and cyclists' tailor, born February 13, 1855, married Mary Ann Innes. 7.2.1 Mary Millar Sleigh, born 1881. On August 1, 1908, she married John Henderson, piano tuner, born 1879, son of Abram Henderson, retired grocer, and Mary Ann Conachie. 7.3 James Sleigh, born Nov. 20, 1856, lived in San Francisco, U.S., and Capetown, South Africa. 7.4 Jane Sleigh, born February 5, 1859. 7.5 Thomas Millar Sleigh, born March 22, 1861, died Dec. 17, 1935, married Grace Jessopp Guthrie who died July 2, 1963. Thomas Millar Sleigh was a cyclists' tailor and clothier at 113-115 Leith Street, Edinburgh, and a Justice of the Peace. 7.6 Mary Sleigh, born July 17, 1863. 7.7 William Lowrie Sleigh III, (LLD, DL, JP) born in Lauder, Sept. 26, 1865, died May 5, 1945. He worked for the Post Office in Edinburgh, became interested in bicycles and taught people how to ride penny-farthings. With T.F. Ross of Leith, he founded the Postal Cycling Club. With William's brother, Thomas Millar Sleigh, and Simon Rossas partners, in 1889, they formed Ross and Sleigh Cycle Company, which, in 1907, became Rossleigh. They sold bicycles, cars, including the famous Swallow Sidecars, and RMF gasoline, in the days when it was sold in gallon cans. There is still a Rossleigh dealership in Perth, selling Jaguars. Right Honourable Sir William Lowrie Sleigh, KB, LLD, DL, JP 1865-1945 On October 17, 1895, William Lowrie Sleigh III married Jessie Sime, who was born 1870, and died October 4, 1937. William Lowrie Sleigh III was Justice of the Peace, 1913, president of Edinburgh Rotary Club, 1914-15, elected to Town Council, 1915, was a Bailie, a Magistrate, 1921, Ward Provost, 1923, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1923 to 1926, received the Freedom of the Royal Burgh of Lauder, April 1924 with entitlement to keep 18 sheep, a cow and a horse on burgess land. On the King's Birthday Honours List, June 1924, he was appointed Knight Bachelor with the title of Right Honourable Sir William Lowrie Sleigh, received an honorary LLD from Edinburgh University, 1926. 7.7.1 William Lowrie Sleigh IV, born Dec. 9, 1896, 9 Golden Acre Terrace, Edinburgh, died Dec. 8, 1961, at 5 Wester Coates Road, Edinburgh. On June 25, 1925, married Mona Carmichael Sutherland, born May 5, 1902. 7.7.1.1 William Lowrie Sleigh V, born on April 19, 1926, in Edinburgh, commissioned into the 16/5 Lancers (armoured cars) in 1944, discharged in 1947 and joined the Lothian and Border Horse Territorials and served with them until 1959 rising to the rank of Captain. Lowrie is a recipient of the Queen's Coronation Medal, presented for special service to Her Majesty during her 25 years on the throne. He is now owner manager of W.L. Sleigh Ltd. Motor Vehicle Hirers, by Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen, H.M. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and H.R.H. The Prince of Wales. A prominent Edinburgh businessman, Lowrie Sleigh serves as Moderator of the High Constables and Guard of Honour of Holyroodhouse. On June 16, 1956 he married Joy William Lowrie Sleigh V Bristowe Sanderson. 7.7.1.1.1 Susan Amanda Sleigh, born July 28, 1957, a Psychology graduate, works for Continental Bank of Illinois, London, m. to Julian Mant BSc, (Chemistry), C.A., who worked for Peat Marwick and now for the CrŽdit Lyonaise in London. 7.7.1.1.1.1 Richard Mant, born Oct. 4, 1987. 7.7.1.1.1.2 Georgina Mant, born Oct. 23, 1988. 7.7.1.1.2 William Lowrie Sleigh VI, born April 5, 1960, film editor, Haymarket, Edinburgh. At Cramond Kirk, on October 25, 1986, he married Gillian Leslie Ramsden, artist, daughter of Henry James Ramsden, company managing director retired, and Alice Lorraine Murray Vass. 7.7.1.1.2.1 Christopher William Lowrie Sleigh born March 25, 1988. 7.7.1.2 John Sutherland Sleigh born December 28, 1928, at 4 Belgrave Road, Corstorphine, died in 1981. He was the export sales director for Haig and Haig, distillers. 7.7.2 Thomas Millar Sleigh, motor engineer, born 1900, died of influenza and pneumonia,October 11,1931, Glasgow. 7.7.3 Jessie Sleigh, lives in Moray Place, Edinburgh. 7.7.4 Charles Edward Wilson Sleigh, motor engineer, b.Aug. 24, 1904, Major in the R.E.M.E. during World War II, lived many years in Bridge of Allan, near Stirling. On January 9, 1937, in London, he married Violet Haddon Petrie, the eldest daughter of Sir Edward Lindsay Petrie, Bart., Surrey. 7.7.4.1 Thomas Edward Sleigh, company director, of Ballater Drive, Sterling, married, on September 30, 1965, to Daphne Mary Walker Jones, beautician, of 35 Stonelaw Drive, Rutherglen, daughter of Charles Boness Jones, M.D., and Isobal Mary (Fisher) Jones. 7.7.4.1.1 Patricia Mary Sleigh. 7.7.4.1.2 David Edward Sleigh. 7.7.4.1.3 Charles Timothy Fisher Sleigh. 7.7.4.2 Rosemary Sleigh, m. Walter Ronald Alexander, Rylands, Dunblane, on November 23, 1956. Walter Ronald Alexander was the son of Walter Alexander, company director, and Katherine (Turnbull) Alexander. 7.7.4.2.1 Walter Alexander, farmer, married a Fraser. 7.7.4.2..2 Rosalind Anne Alexander. 7.7.4.2..3 Caroline Mary Alexander, married, 1 child. 7.7.4.2.4 Charles Edward Alexander, solicitor, married Felicity Ann Masterson, secretary, of London, daughter of Tain Anderson Cook, medical practitioner and consultant haematologist, and Catherine Hall Thomson Fraser. Charles Edward Wilson Sleigh's second wife was Dorothy, of Yorkshire. It was also her second marriage. 7.7.5 Mary Millar Sleigh II, born May,1909. On Jan 14, 1938, she married William C. White of Edinburgh, a builder. 7.8 Alice Sleigh, born June 16, 1868, died of "gastric" Dec. 8,1868. 7.9 Isabella Sleigh II, born May 28, 1870, died January 18, 1950 at Broughty Ferry of pneumonia and colitis. She married William Marshall Henderson SSC, August 23, 1888 at Edinburgh. He died at Broughty Ferry on August 31, 1940. 7.9.1 Mary Millar Henderson, born January 10, 1890, died at Edinburgh March 27, 1979, buried in Grange Cemetery. 7.9.2 Christiana Marshall Henderson, born Nov. 23, 1891, at 26 Marchmont Crescent, Edinburgh, married in 1920 to Thomas Brand Fairley, C.A., whose practice was in Calcutta, India. 7.9.2.1 Christiana Sleigh Fairley, married George Wilson, a banker in Edinburgh. 7.9.3 Isabel Sleigh Henderson, born January 13, 1894, married 1925 to James Lawrie McKerchar, solicitor. 7.9.3.1 Duncan William McKerchar. 7.9.3.2 Anne McKerchar, a conveyancing solicitor in Dalkeith. On June 11, 1959, in the Church of Scotland, Broughty Ferry, she married William Taylor Meikle, museum curator, son of James Meikle, civil servant, and Mary Jane (Taylor) Meikle. 7.9.3.2.1 Pamela Meikle. 7.9.3.2.2 Emily Meikle. 7.9.4 Constance Adair Henderson, born July 14, 1899, died in 1987, m. Dr. William Morgan Robertson Rusk, a minister of the Church of Scotland. 7.9.4.1 Isabel Henderson Rusk, married William John Farquhar, hospital administrator, son of John Farquhar and Mary (Whyte) Farquhar. 7.9.4.1.1 Callum Farquhar. 7.9.4.1.2 Torquil Farquhar. 7.9.4.1.3 Gavin Farquhar. 7.9.4.1.4 Barry Farquhar, adopted. William Marshall Henderson SSC, and Isabella (Sleigh) Henderson in 1938. 8. William Sleigh, born April 27, 1825, died July 8, 1826. 9. William Lowrie Sleigh, born Nov. 13, 1827, died March 1,1881, at Ruby Villa, Murray St, Sciennes Gardens, Edinburgh, married Marrion Mason. See Sleigh-Mason. Williamson-Notman James Williamson and his wife, Marion or Mary Notman, of Liberton, near Edinburgh, had six children: 1. Agnes Williamson, christened April 22, 1770. 2. George Williamson, christened July 12, 1772. 3. Alexander Williamson, christened July 23, 1775. 4. Marion Williamson, christened July 26, 1778. See Hislop-Williamson. 5. Archibald Williamson, christened August 20, 1780. 6. Francis Williamson, christened June 6, 1784. Hislop-Williamson James Hislop, a dyer, and Marion Williamson, born in July, 1778, had a daughter: 1. Marion Hislop, born 1810. See Mason-Hislop. Mason-Low James Mason, born in Upper Crammond, August 9, 1727, baptized August 13, 1727, was a son of John Mason and Margaret (Pillans) Mason. He was listed as a gentleman's servant in Old Kirk Parish, Edinburgh, on December 16, 1770, when he married Isobella Low, daughter of Alex Low, barber in College Kirk Parish. Their children were baptized in Edinburgh. 1. Margaret Mason, born April Marion (Hislop) Mason, 1810-1871 22, 1776. 2. James Mason II, born March 27, 1780. See Mason-Gordon. 3. Anne Campbell Mason, baptized November 8, 1786, witnessed by Charles Crawford, coppersmith, Canongate, Edinburgh. 4. Margaret Mason, born October 5, 1788. 5. John Mason, born March 1, 1791. Mason-Gordon James Mason II, shoemaker on Bristo Street, born March 27, 1780,bap. April 7, 1780, Edinburgh, witnessed by Alex Low, wigmaker, and Patrick Leitch, wright, was appointed a Burgess of Edinburgh, Sept. 9, 1809 and died before 1851. He married Elizabeth Gordon. 1. John Wigham Mason, b. March 1, 1808, bap. April 15, 1808, St. Cuthberts, Edinburgh, m. Marion Hislop. See Mason-Hislop. 2. James Mason III, shoemaker, Burgess of Edinburgh Sept. 23, 1839. 3. Charlotte Mason, born about1821. 4. Jemima Mason, born about 1821. 5. Andrew Thomson Mason, born about 1826, an apprentice brass founder, married Mary Blackie on June 15, 1847. 6. Elizabeth Mason, born about 1826. Mason-Hislop John Wigham Mason was born 1808. On July 10, 1831, in Edinburgh Parish, he married Marion Hislop, born 1810. Marion (Hislop) Mason died of bronchial pneumonia November 25, 1871, at Ruby Villa, Sciennes Hill, home of her son-in-law, William Lowrie Sleigh, and is buried in the W.L. Sleigh family plot, Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh. John Wigham Mason, a master tailor and clothier of Candlemaker Row, New Greyfriars Parish, later of 20 North Bridge, Edinburgh, employied three men, was named Robemaker for Scotland by appointment to His Royal Highness Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria. On September 23, 1839, he was made a Burgess of the City of Edinburgh. He died on April 8, 1851, of heart disease, at his home, 10 St Patrick Square, and was buried in Grange Cemetery, plot H 235, although the monument on this plot contains only the names of Margaret Taylor and Janet Wilson. John Wigham Mason and Marion (Hislop) Mason had a son James Mason IV, 1835- 1855 and a daughter: Marrion Williamson Mason, 1832-1871 1. Marrion Williamson Mason, born August 2, 1832. See Sleigh-Mason. 2. James Mason IV, born April 11, 1835, at 377 High Street, Tolbooth Parish, Edinburgh, and baptized at New Greyfriars Parish, April 27, 1835. He was an apprentice draper in Edinburgh before joining the army and died while serving in the Crimean war. In July, 1853, Russia, which occupied Turkey north of the Danube, moved troops south across the Danube and also attacked and destroyed a Turkish squadron in the Black Sea. In October, the Turks declared war on Russia and early in 1854, as allies for the first time in 200 years, Britain and France joined against Russia to protect Turkey. They dispatched troops and equipment to the Black Sea where Varna became their staging center. The Russians retreated their army of occupation north across the Danube, in response to the mobilizing of 50,000 Austrians. There would, then seem to have been no further need for military action by the British and French, but the allies pressed on with their preparations for action and, early in September, 1854, embarked the cholera-ridden troops encamped at Varna and set sail for the Crimean peninsula, intending to take Sevastopol, the Black Sea port used by the Russian navy, near its southwest tip. Accompanied by 150 ships of war, the troop transports, built at Varna in July and August, made landfall at Old Fort, 30 miles north of Sevastopol, and discharged their cargoes of men and equipment. With 51,000 British, French and Turkish infantry, 1,000 British cavalry and 128 guns, the allies proceeded south on September 19, 1854, on the road to Sevastopol. They were met the next day by the Russians on the heights above Alma River and, in spite of heavy losses by the British, the allies carried the day, forcing the Russians to withdraw. By September 25, Sevastopol was in sight. The Russians had sealed off the port by sinking ships at its mouth, so the allied navies were unable to offer assistance, while Russian ships in the harbour were able to employ their guns against forces attacking from the north. An attack on the city from the north became out of the question. A flanking march around to the east of the city secured the south shore port of Balaclava, and the south west port of Kamiesch. A siege line set up on Sevastopol was shortly breached by the Russians, who secured the Verontsov ridge, weakest point on the line, and captured some Turkish guns. Trying to recover them, the famous charge of the Light Brigade (British Light Cavalry) ensued. At least a third of the Brigade was lost in this suicidal attack and the Russians still held the Vorontsov ridge. On November 5, the Russians attacked the Inkerman heights siege line, south-east of Sevastopol. Fog permeated as fresh Russian troops attacked in force but the allies held their ground and the Russians withdrew, with heavy losses on both sides. By winter, the poorly fed, poorly clothed, poorly housed men suffered unbelievable hardships, worsened by the loss of a British supply ship in a November 14 storm. Before January 8,000 men were sick and less than half the army fit for service. With spring, 1855, came supplies from England, Florence Nightingale arrived to organize the hospitals, and the allies were able to recover their strength. The siege of Sevastopol continued through the winter, spring, and summer of 1855. Late that year it was taken by the French, Kinburn was captured, and the war ground to a halt. The Treaty of Paris was signed in February, 1856, excluding Russian warships from the Black Sea, but 15 years later they were back. This war earned a reputation as the most mismanaged in English history; however, with a strength of less than 200,000 men of three nationalities, some incompetent leadership and divided command, the allied force, 3,000 miles from home, prevailed against a superior force in terms of numbers of men, equipment, and ease of supply. James Mason was a victim of that war. He may have been the J. Mason of the Welsh Fusiliers, listed as wounded in the battle at Alma River, September 20, 1854, subsequently dying of his wounds, or he may have succumbed to cholera or dysentery at the base hospital at Scutari. William Lowrie Sleigh, 1827-1881 Sleigh-Mason Born at Lauder, Berwickshire,Novem-ber 18, 1827, the first William Lowrie Sleigh, was a commercial traveller in the linen trade and a shirt manufacturer. He died of pericarditis on March 1, 1881, at Ruby Villa, Murray Street Sciennes, Edinburgh. In 1856 he lived at 127 Argyle Street, Glasgow. On October 3, 1856, William Lowrie Sleigh married Marrion Mason, 22 Dundas Street, Parish of St. Stephen, Edinburgh, born August 2, 1832, died of bronchitis, February 15, 1871 at 13 North Lauder Road, Edinburgh. 1. Peter Mason Sleigh, born Peacock was born May 27, 1863, at 50 Southbridge, Edinburgh, and died of bronchitis and hypostatic pneumonia on April 16, 1928. She was buried at Grange Cemetery and the death registration was signed by her son, William H. Sleigh, of 2 Inverleith Terrace, Edinburgh. Mary Ann's parents, married July 18, 1859, were Hugh Peacock, lithographer and hair merchant, and Ann Hill Kirk, daughter of James Kirk, brewer, of Edinburgh, and Mary Ann's brother was Hugh Peacock, chief of police in New York City who died c. 1944. Peter Mason Sleigh II died of chronic phthisis, at 3 St David's Terrace, Edinburgh, April 13, 1915, certificate signed by William Hugh Sleigh, son. After Peter's death, the family moved to 10 Upper Grove Place. The sons of Peter Mason Sleigh II were strong supporters of the Church of Scotland in which they all served as elders. While his children were growing up in Edinburgh, he continued to spend a great deal of time in Africa, returning home for brief periods every two years.It has been impossible for us to find evidence of his work in Nigeria. There were significant Church of Scotland missions there at the time which were endeavouring to encourage trade, especially around Old Calabar. On his tombstone in The Grange Cemetery is inscribed "Peter Mason Sleigh of Old Calabar". 1.1 William Hugh Sleigh, born c. 1895, died April 23, 1928. His early death was attributed by the family to an injury to his leg suffered during his service with the "Dandy" 9th Regiment in World War I as well as shock, following his mother's death. He was a tailor, worked in Glasgow for Peter Mason Sleigh some years, and was manager of Marcus the as a youth. furrier, on Princes Street, Edinburgh. William Hugh Sleigh was married to Emma M.R. Dick, b. 1890, d. Aug. 13, 1972. Emma had a milliner shop with her sister in Earl Grey Street and later in Coliston Road, Edinburgh. Emma (Dick) Sleigh's second husband was William Bennie Hart. Mary Ann Clark (Peacock) Sleigh and her sons, Peter Kirk, Douglas, John Mason, William Hugh and Archibald Peacock Sleigh. 1.2 John Mason Sleigh, ironmonger, 110 Gorgie Rd, Edinburgh, born August 23, 1896, died October 25, 1972 of myocardial infarction at 7 Murieston Crescent, Edinburgh, buried in Grange Cemetery, certificate signed by A. Sleigh, son, 58 Glendevon Place. On June 6, 1924 John Mason Sleigh m. Jean Parker Hodge, a spiritualist, born June 30, 1900, d. Jan.16, 1976, buried at Grange Cemetery. 1.2.1 Peter Mason Sleigh II, born September 8, 1924, died July 9, 1928, buried at Grange Cemetery. 1.2.2 Adam Hodge Sleigh, electrician. On July 31, 1953 he m. Mary Brodie McLellan Waldie, daughter of Archibald Waldie and Sarah Finnie McLellan of 16 Downfield Pl. Edinburgh. 1.2.2.1 John Mason Sleigh II, hairdresser, married April 19, 1985 to Ellenor Elizabeth Dow, cook, daughter of Edward Dow, porter and driver, and Maureen McMahon. 1.2.2.1.1 Kayleigh Marie Sleigh. 1.2.3 Margaret Watson Hodge Sleigh, married February 29,1952, to Walter Burnett Darling, bus driver, born December 24, 1920, died February 15, 1979, son of William Darling and Elizabeth Aitken Smith Darling. 1.2.3.1 Lawrence Hodge Darling. 1.2.3.2 Jeanette Hodge Sleigh Darling. 1.2.3.3 Jacqueline Sleigh Darling. 1.3 Annie Marion Sleigh, born February 26, 1899, died April 25, 1901, buried at Grange Cemetery. 1.4 Douglas Sleigh, born March 13, 1901, died of left ventricular failure on December 27, 1975, and is buried at Grange Cemetery. He married Mary Ann McQueen, born 1899, daughter of John McQueen, postman, and Isabella Luke. Mary Ann (McQueen) Sleigh died January 15, 1959 of chronic bronchitis and is buried at Grange Cemetery. Douglas Sleigh was a chauffeur and electrical warehouseman at Heggie and Aicheson Shop Fitters, lived on Gorgie Road and then in Juniper Green, south-west of Edinburgh. He served as a fireman with the National Fire Service throughout World War II as the driver of the big ladder truck at the Gorgie Street and Angle Park Stations. 1.4.1 Mary (May) McQueen Sleigh, a data base administrator with the Scot- Mary McQueen Sleigh tish Health Service, since 1976. For thirty years she was a Girl Guide captain, founded the 21st Company in St David's Church, Morrison St. Edinburgh. 1.5 Peter Kirk Sleigh, a joiner (cabinet maker), born Sept. 6, 1904, died of respiratory failure and carcinoma of the lungs, May 13, 1982 at Western General Hospital, Edinburgh. He lived at 32 Broomhouse Place, Edinburgh. In 1937 he married MargaretWood Vyner, born in 1903, who was a daughter of Laurence Lemuel Vyner, a tobacconist and Emmeline (Wood) Vyner. 1.6 Archibald Peacock Sleigh, biscuit manufacturer, b. Nov. 21, 1906, died of lung carcinoma June 20, 1980, St Columba's Hospice, Edinburgh, married Gladys Lillian Clarkson, widow of Alexander Kerr. Mary McQueen Sleigh is the godmother of their children: 1.6.1 Douglas Archibald Sleigh, constable, Edinburgh, married June 5, 1965, to Sylvia Brydon, born 1947, daughter of James Brydon, lorry driver, and Jane Magee of Edinburgh. 1.6.1.1 Gary James Sleigh. 1.6.1.2 Tracey Sleigh. 1.6.2 Marion Sleigh, married January 24, 1970, to Douglas James Wilson, touring clerk with the Royal Automobile Club, son of John Colquhoun Wilson, supervising officer in the General Post Office, and Margaret Rose (O'Hanlon) Wilson. 1.6.2.1 Paul Douglas Wilson. 2. Marion Hislop Sleigh, born April 20, 1859, 151 New City Rd, Glasgow, died of dyptheria, December 26, 1862 at Marionville, Sciennes Hill, Edinburgh, and was buried in Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh. 3. Jean Brown Sleigh, born Aug. 19, 1861 at Edinburgh, was at one time employed as a housekeeper by the Strang family, Glasgow wholesalers. She died in Bromley, Kent, England, December, 1939. 4. William Lowrie Sleigh II, born July 14, 1863, at Marionville, Sciennes Hill, Edinburgh, died November 24, 1886, buried Grange Cemetery. 5. Marrion Mason Sleigh, born October 9, 1865, at Marionville, Sciennes Hill, Edinburgh, died on July 26, 1949, at Montreal,Quebec, married to John Smart Rutherford. See Rutherford-Sleigh 6. John Thomas Sleigh, born May 17,1867 at Marionville, Sciennes Hill, died of whooping cough, April 3, 1869, at 13 North Lauder Road, Edinburgh, buried in Grange Cemetery. 7. Isabella (Bella) Sleigh, born June 5, 1869, was a domestic servant with the Strang family, Glasgow, at the time of her marriage on June 24, 1904, at St Cuthberts Church, Edin., to George William Buck, born 1875, carting contractor of Whixley, (now a part of the city of York) Yorkshire, son of James Buck, gardener, and Sarah (Bramley) Buck. Witness to the marriage was John Smart Rutherford. Isabella (Sleigh) and George William Buck had two sons. Isabella Sleigh, b 1869 Jean Brown Sleigh, 1861-1939 Rutherford-Sleigh On June 4, 1888, John Smart Rutherford married Marrion Mason Sleigh, born at Marionville, Sciennes Hill, Edinburgh, Oct. 9, 1865, died July 26, 1949 at Montreal. John and James Rutherford joined their father C. D. Rutherford, in a tobacco products manufacturing and sales partnership at 4 Heriot Bridge, Edinburgh. When C.D. Rutherford died in 1895, his widow, Christina (Smart) Rutherford, inherited his share in the company. Sometime after 1898, the partners purchased three cigarette manufacturing machines and created a corporation, Rutherford Tobacco and Cigarette Manufacturing Co. Ltd., to manufacture cigarettes which would be sold by C.D. Rutherford and Sons, through its long established sales organization. Within three years the partners of C.D. Rutherford and Sons petitioned for relief under provisions of the Bankruptcy Act (Scotland) 1856. Acting for them in the legal proceedings was William Marshall Henderson, SSC (Solicitor of the Supreme Court). The petition being agreed to by the Lord Ordinary, Moir J. Stormouth Darling, the estates were sequestered April 8, 1901 by Court of Session. John Rutherford gave five reasons why he believed the partnership had become financially embarrassed: (1) unreimbursed expenses incurred by the partnership on behalf of the new corporation, (2) overdrawn profits, John being overdrawn for an amount equal to four times his annual salary, (3) bad trade, (4) bad debts, (5) losses on "accommodation bills". By their own admission John and James had paid no attention to the financial condition of the partnership, the office being left unsupervised in the hands of a clerk. Marrion Mason Sleigh , 1865-1949, and John Smart Rutherford , 1858-1943 The experience of the partners of C.D. Rutherford is classic. A successful business was built up by an industrious businessman. Thirty-five years later he formed a partnership with his sons, sent them out on the road to sell, apparently teaching them nothing of the day to day operations, financing, and management of the business. When he died, his inexperienced sons were on their own. Six years later the business collapsed. By this time John Smart Rutherford and Marrion Mason (Sleigh) Rutherford had four children. Marrion Mason Rutherford, 10, John Smart Rutherford, 1, Charles Dickson Rutherford, 5, Christina Smart Rutherford, 8.. John Smart Rutherford went to Canada in 1905 and took up residence in Montreal, where he was employed as an auditor with the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. In 1910 his family joined him, living first in Maisonneuve, then at 14 Lorne Ave., then in Westmount when the older son, Charles, bought 3421 Montrose Ave. In the 1930's Charles bought 3172 The Boulevard, Westmount, where he and his parents lived out their lives. Marrion (Sleigh) Rutherford, raised in comparative luxury, had no vocational training but, magnificent in adversity, faced with the need to support her children when her husband left to seek employment in Canada, she worked as a practical nurse in Edinburgh. Her daughter, Christina, was sent to live with Christina Jane (Rutherford) Gray at 9 Chalmers Crescent, while daughter, Marrion, and the boys, Charlie and Jack, lived with their mother in a small flat at 11 Archibald Place. In January, 1910, two of the children, Marrion and Jack, sailed for Montreal. At the end of June, 1910, Marrion (Sleigh) Rutherford followed with Christina and Charlie. John Smart Rutherford, right, with his wife, Marrion Mason Rutherford, and their two sons, Charles Dickson Rutherford, left, and John Mason Rutherford, center, on their back porch at Lorne Avenue, Montreal. 1. Marrion Mason Rutherford (May), born prematurely weighing about two pounds, on December 1, 1888, went to Canada in January, 1910, with her younger brother, John. She worked as a secretary with the Montreal law firm, Brown Montgomery, and then became legal secretary to Mr. Head, an official with International Paper in Montreal. On June 10, 1916, in a double wedding with her sister, she married Tom Lochhead, of Eskbank, near Edinburgh, whom she later divorced. When her boss, Mr. Head, was posted to his head office in New York City, she went too and stayed with the firm, living on East 60th Street, Manhattan, for at least 25 years, sharing an apartment with Bette Wilson, a nurse from Edinburgh. After her brother Charles died, in 1952, May retired and, with Bette Wilson, left New York and moved into 3172 The Boulevard, Westmount, which May had inherited from Charles. Bette left shortly afterwards to live with her sister in Vancouver where she was struck and killed by a car in a pedestrian cross-walk accident. May was an accomplished artist whose oil paintings grace the walls of various of her relatives and friends. On April 24, 1981, at age of 93 she died in Shawville, Quebec, home of her nephew, David Rutherford Dickson, where she had lived since 1976, and is buried in Shawville Cemetery. Christina Smart Rutherford Marrion Mason Rutherford born Edinburgh, 1890, born Edinburgh, 1888, married Montreal, 1916, married Montreal, 1916, died Shawville, Quebec, 1972. died Shawville, Quebec, 1981. 2. Christina Smart Rutherford, born November 4, 1890, died June 9, 1972. See Dickson-Rutherford. 3. Charles Dickson Rutherford II, born May 3, 1893, in Edinburgh, educated at Daniel Stewart's College, came to Canada in 1910 with his mother and sister, Christina, and joined the actuarial department of the Sun Life Assurance Company. By 1923 he was named Assistant Actuary of the company and became Associate Actuary in 1932, a position he held until his death on May 1, 1953, after a brief illness. He had jurisdiction over the company's entire group insurance business, in which branch he was considered an authority, having made a special study of group insurance, group annuities and pensions.C.D. Rutherford was internationally known as compiler of the Rutherford's Annuity Tables, which were accepted as a standard table for the valuation of annuities by the Dominion Insurance Department and are still in wide use. A brilliant mathematician, he was a of Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, Great Britain, (FIA), and Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, United States, (FSA) and was one of the foremost mathemeticians of his time, according to Time Magazine. At Cedars Place, Lake Manitou, back row, Jean Brown Sleigh, John Smart Rutherford, David Wallace Dickson, Charles Dickson Rutherford , Marrion Mason (Sleigh) Rutherford, and kneeling in front are Christina (Rutherford) Dickson, David Dickson, Marion Dickson and Katherine Dickson. Charles Dickson Rutherford served briefly in World War I, wrote several unpublished novels, took an interest in the occult and a great variety of other subjects. He loved his country retreat, Cedars Place, on Lake Manitou in the Laurentians, a center of family gatherings. He left it and his house to his sister, Marrion, who shortly sold "Cedars Place" to Clark Bushell, and in 1976, she also sold the house on The Boulevard. Charles Dickson Rutherford II , S/L John Mason Rutherford FIA,FSA, 1893-1953 1897-1944 4. John Smart (later changed to John Mason) Rutherford was born June 27, 1897, in Edinburgh. He came to Montreal with his sister, Marrion, in 1910, joined the Canadian Army in 1916, was invalided out with pleurisy, sent to a sanitorium in Ste Agathe, Quebec, where he met Yvonne Lomer, of Montreal, whom he later married. He joined the Sun Life Assurance Company, Montreal where, by the mid 1930s, he was head of the Policy Department. Early in 1940 he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force as Administrative Officer, was appointed Adjutant, at No.1 Initial Training School, Toronto, then posted as Adjutant to the I.T.S. at Victoriaville, Quebec, to Britain in 1941, then to the Middle East where he rose to the rank of Squadron Leader with No.417 Fighter Squadron, RCAF. In West Africa, in December, 1944, he was attacked by a shark while swimming, received immediate medical attention but died in a few hours and is buried at Sierra Leone. Dickson-Rutherford The childhood years of David Wallace Dickson were not easy. His mother died before he was two and his father died when he was four. Orphaned and abandoned at his father's funeral, he was taken home by Andrew Ross II who lived with his wife, his four children, and his mother, Agnes (Fraser) Ross, at Ivy Bank, New Scone, Perthshire, Scotland. At twelve, while still living with the Ross family, David Wallace Dickson went to work at the Jelly Works where Andrew Ross II was the manager. As a teenager, David studied at night school and in his early twenties obtained a position as accountant and office manager for an David Wallace Dickson insurance company in Glasgow. In April, 1912, as a boy. at the age of 24, he went to Canada, having been appointed plant and office manager and secretary of Thomas Davidson Manufacturing Co. Ltd, Montreal. They manufactured the McClary line of stoves, refrigerators, and kitchen appliances, as well as galvanized and enamel kitchenware. At St. Pauls Presbyterian Church, Montreal, on June 10, 1916, he married Christina Smart Rutherford. They lived at 56 Windsor Avenue, Westmount. In 1924, for the sake of his wife's health, he moved the family to Oakland, California where he sold insurance for the Sun Life Assurance Company. Six months later he returned, alone, to the Thomas Davidson Co. Ltd in Montreal and after six months, in 1925, he bought 648 Belmont Avenue, Westmount, Quebec, and moved his family back to Canada. After the 1928 amalgamation of several companies including Davidson, to form General Steel Wares Ltd. (GSW), David became Plant and Office Manager of the GSW Montreal branch. Retired from GSW at age 65, he became general manager of the Raymond Aluminum Extrusion Company in Lachine, Quebec, continuing in active business for another fifteen years. He lived his last years in Ottawa, sometimes with and sometimes close to his son, and died April 8, 1982. According to his wish, his ashes were scattered on the family evergreen plantation near Shawville, Quebec, and a memorial stone bears his name in the Shawville Cemetery. Christina Smart Rutherford lived in Lawrence Villa, Sciennes Gardens, Edinburgh, until she was about eight years old. Her parents' house was opposite Ruby Villa where her mother had lived as a child. Christina recalled that the houses that her grandfather, William Lowrie Sleigh, had built were at right angles, next to their garden wall at the side. The Rutherford's house was small but had a nice garden and summer house. Christina (Rutherford) Dickson David Wallace Dickson with her first child, Katherine. as a young man. When her father left for Canada, and her mother had to support the family, Christina Smart Rutherford spent a number of years at 9 Chalmers Crescent, Edinburgh, with her aunt, Christina Jane (Rutherford) Gray, widow of Joseph Train Gray, and her three cousins, Charles, Joe and Billy Gray. Christina came to Canada with her mother and brother Charles on the Empress of Ireland on July 1, 1910, and worked as a legal secretary at Brown Montgomery until she was married. A loyal church worker, ardent golfer, a great cook whose recipes have become family treasures, she was also famous for her sewing, knitting, gardening, and especially for her cheerful disposition. On June 9, 1972, on the fiftieth birthday of her youngest child, Christina (Rutherford) Dickson died in Shawville, Quebec, the home of her son, David Rutherford Dickson, where she had spent Katherine , David and Marion her last days. She is buried in Shawville. Dickson at Cetars Place, Manitou. Katherine Wallace Dickson Semrau and James Edward Semrau 1. Katherine Wallace Dickson, born in Montreal on October 21, 1917, was secretary to an actuarial officer of the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada at their Head Office in Montreal. She moved to San Francisco in May, 1948, where she was executive secretary to the president of West Coast Life Insurance Company. Katherine married James Edward Semrau at Lakeside Presbyterian Church in San Francisco on November 5, 1949. Jim was born in Yelm, Washington, November 23, 1918, served in the U.S. Air Force during World War I, two years service in the Philippines, another two years in Upper Assam, India, moved to San Francisco after the war, studied Electrical Engineering at Heald's College, joined the staff of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in San Francisco, retiring in 1981. 1.1 Gregory Ross Semrau, born in San Francisco October 27, 1953, changed his name to Greg Houston, graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs in 1977, spent five years on active duty, two years in the Philippines (as his father had done a generation before), received Master's degree, Petroleum Engineering at Stanford University in June 1984, married Susan Nyquisst in Philadelphia on May 21, 1988, lives in Palmdale, California. 1.2 Jane Elizabeth Semrau, born in San Francisco on October 6, 1955, married to Santos Ruiz, vice-president of a savings and loan bank. 1.2.1 Daniel Aaron Ruiz, born April 30, 1980. 1.2.2 Brandon Kyle Ruiz, born November12, 1984. 2. A son born in 1918 during the influenza epidemic, died at birth. Rosaleen Diana (Leslie) Dickson and David Rutherford Dickson 3. David Rutherford Dickson, born November 15, 1919, at Montreal, married Rosaleen Diana Leslie. See Dickson-Leslie. 4. Marion Elizabeth (Honey) Dickson, was born in the family home, at 56 Windsor Avenue, Westmount, June 9, 1922. She graduated with a BA at McGill University, Honours English and Education and taught English in Montreal. Honey Dickson married David Beresford Munn in June, 1946, in Montreal. He had served with the 17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars in Canada, U.K. and North West Europe during World War II and was wounded twice. After he was discharged, they went to Fredericton where Dave studied Forestry Engineering. He worked for Price Bros. Paper Co. in Kenogami and Honey taught high school in nearby Arvida. When they both retired they moved to Brome, in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, where Dave still lives. Honey died of cancer on April 28, 1985 and is buried in Sutton, Quebec. Dave Munn is a recognized lay worker at Calvary United Church, Sutton. 4.1 Ian Munn, born Oct. 3, 1948, Fredericton, N.B., died Sept. 1976. Ian had a B.A. from Carleton University and worked at the Banque Nartionale du Canada and as passenger agent for Quebec Air. 4.2 Roderick Munn, born in Chicoutimi, Quebec, May 20 1951, attended McGill University, University of New Brunswick and obtained his B.A. in Geography and his Masters in Business Administration from Western University in London, Ontario. He is now a senior executive with Ultramar in Montreal. On September 19, 1984 Roderick Munn was married to Ellen Shapiro of Montreal. Ellen has an M.B.A. from the University of Toronto and now works in Life Insurance. 4.2.1 Frances Elizabeth (Bunny) Munn, born April 4, 1987, Montreal. 4.3 Felicity Munn, born May 17, 1954, in Chicoutimi, Quebec, obtained her B.A. from Carleton University in Ottawa and is now a feature writer and columnist with Canadian Press. David Beresford Munn and Marion Elizabeth "Honey" (Dickson) Munn. Christina Smart (Rutherford) Dickson 1890-1972 David Wallace Dickson, 1887-1983 Notes Download 270.35 Kb. Share with your friends:
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