Archibald Crawford Leckie

NOT A DIRECT ANCESTOR Archibald Crawford Leckie is not in my direct ancestry. He is related the following way: Grandfather of David John Leckie, husband of my sister Jennifer Katherine Williams Leckie

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth	11 Oct 1913	Winnipeg, Canada
Marriage			To Margaret Mary Clark
Death	12 July 2001	Westchester, Cook Cty, IL	age 87
Burial

Ancestry chart segment

  Generation 1               Generation 2                  Generation 3                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                       +-- John McNiven Leckie
                                                       |   (1873-1963)
                        +-- Archibald Crawford Leckie--+
                        |   (1913-2001)                |
  John Francis Leckie --+                              +-- Margaret Melvin Crawford
  (1943-    )           |                                  (1877-1966)
                        +-- Margaret Mary Clark
                            (1916-1999)

Sources:

Children

(all children with Margaret Mary Clark)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Living daughter Leckie	F			To
John Francis Leckie	M			Jaqueline Zastrow
Living daughter Leckie	F			To
Living daughter Leckie	F			To

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada	birth-1924
Chicago, IL	1924-after 1940
Westchester, Cook Cty, IL	by death

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	1916 Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan Census. Ancestry.com index finds John Leckie b. 1874, Margaret b.1878, John b.1899, Mary b.1900, Jean b.1902, Margaret b.1903, Isabella b.1906, Janet b.1908, Melvin b.1912, Archibald b.1914, and Douglas b.1915 in Winnipeg Center, Manitoba.
2	1921 Canadian Census. Ancestry.com index lists: John Leckie b. 1874, Margaret b.1878, Mary b.1901, Jane b.1902, Margaret b.1904, Isabella b.1907, Janet b.1908, Melville b.1912, Archabella b.1914 and Douglas b.1916, all living in Winnipeg Center, Manitoba, Canada.
3	1930 United States Federal Census, Enum. Dist. 1001-1250, Chicago, Cook Cty., IL, page 24. Lines 82-88: John Leckie, head, age 56, married at 24, b. Scotland, immigrated 1923, PA (papers filed), bricklayer, buildings; Margaret M., wife, age 52, married at age 19, b. Scotland, immigr. 1924, alien; Mary, dau., age 29, single, b. Scotland, immigr. 1925, alien, iron lady, garter mfg.; Jane, dau., age 29, single, b. Scotland, immigr. 1925, alien, operator, telephone; Melvin, son, age 18, single, in school, b. Scotland, immigr. 1924, papers filed; Archibald, son, 16, in school, b. Canada, immigr. 1924 papers filed; Duglas (sic), son, 14, in school, b. Canada, immigr. 1924, papers filed. Family rents home at 1546 Rarlov St. All parents born Scotland.
4	1940 United States Federal Census, Enum. Dist. 103-1877 Chicago, Cook Cty., IL, page 18. Lines 66-67: Archibald Leckie, 26, b. Canada, citizenship, papers filed, checker, wholesale meat; Margarite, wife, 23, born IL, stenographer, Cook County. Family resides at 1316 Rarlov St.
5	Interview of John Francis Leckie, 28 Nov 2013; interview by Elizabeth Wilson Williams and David John Leckie. Archibald Crawford Leckie was born in 1912 or 1913, in Winnipeg, Canada. Archibald's father was John Leckie. John Leckie's (or Archibald's ?) parents came to Canada with their first child. John Leckie survived fighting in World War I. He worked as a bricklayer. His children included four sons: Archibald Crawford Leckie b. 1913; John Leckie Jr. who died fighting in WWI, & is buried in Normandy; a son 2 years younger than Archie; Melvin (2 years older than Archie) who also died & is buried in Normandy, WWI. John Leckie's parents were from Scotland. His wife Margaret Crawford's parents were from outside Glasgow, Scotland, near Stirling Castle. They owned apartment buildings in Edinburgh.
6	U. S. Naturalization Record, Archibald Crawford Leckie. L200 11-163055. Address: 1316 No. Karlov Ave., Chgo (sic), Ill. Country of birth: Canada. Date of birth: October 11, 1913. Date of Naturalization: March 13, 1941. Name & address of witnesses: John H. Odachowski, 1851 No. Talman Ave., Chgo. (sic), Ill; Joseph Simusak, 2330 W. Erie St., Chgo (sic), Ill. Court District of Illinois, Indiana Wisconsin & Iowa.
7	Denholme Research Packet Made available by John F. Leckie, Nov. 2013. Packet addressed from daughter Denholme, in British Columbia to "Mr & Mrs. A. Leckie, in Westchester,IL", postmark July (1999?) Father of Archibald Crawford Leckie was John McNiven Leckie b. 9 Sept 1878 (or 1873?, faint print), at Kippen, Scotland
8	Social Security Death Index Archibald C. Leckie Last Residence: 0154 Westchester, Cook, Illinois, USA Born: 11 Oct 1913 Died: 12 Jul 2001 State (Year) SSN issued: Illinois (Before 1951)