Rena, You are working from the same document that I am. It is the Leith Family Book. I am looking for an identity for J.D. LEITH and for his ancestors. The cousin I mentioned and I are descended from Margaret Ann Leith, the daughter of William in the second generation. She married her second cousin, William Leith, so the name remained the same for one more generation. I would also like to know more about that William Leith. I see by my Family Book that there is a Rena Leith who is the daughter of Donald Leith. He would be my grandmother Nea Karafotis' first cousin. She babysat for him while attending high school at the UW in Madison. Are you the same Rena? Did you know that the Leith Family still holds reunions each June in Wisconsin? If anyone is interested, I will put your name on the mailing list. The next reunion is Sunday, June 25, at Eldorado in Fond du Lac County. All are welcome, bring a dish to pass. I would like to have a larger mailing list for our 75th reunion which is coming up in a very few years. Kate Yarbro yarbro@wctc.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Rena Leith <Rena.Leith@Eng.Sun.COM> To: <ORKNEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 6:24 PM Subject: Re: [ORKNEY] Tea Clipper > I found my info on William Leith, son of J. D. Leith. After he left the Orkneys, > he was a tailor in Canada at $8/month and then joined the Gold Rush in > California. He made his stake, sailed to Panama, crossed the Isthmus on foot, > sailed to the Orkneys where he married Margaret on March 17, 1853. They settled > in Eldorado township near Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, where he speculated in land > and died on July 7, 1869. They had two children: William and Margaret Ann. > William the son never married and died young. I'm descended from Margaret Ann > Leith, my great grandmother, who married a second cousin also named William. > Notice a naming pattern here? > > I have some more information. Who was your cousin descended from in the third > generation if William the tailor is the first generation? Obviously, we're > cousins. > > Rena > > > > > > A cousin passed away before explaining to anyone what all her genealogy notes > meant. Her daughter and I have been able to decipher many of them, and I'm > trying to follow up on some of them. One note mentions the TEA CLIPPER, 'MARY > NELSON" with the date 18 Nov 1872. At first I suspected this might be one the > ships that WILLIAM LEITH (b. Sept. 15,1822) worked on. However he died in 1869 > (if my records are correct) Does anyone have more on this ship? > > > > He sailed back to Orkney in 1853 and married MARGARET ANN CLOUSON. William is > the son of J.D. LEITH. That is all we know about their ancestry right now. Is > anyone is looking into Leiths or Cloustons?. > > > > Kate > > yarbro@wctc.net > > >