John McNiven Leckie

NOT A DIRECT ANCESTOR John McNiven Leckie is not in my direct ancestry. He is related the following way: Great-grandfather of David John Leckie, husband of my sister Jennifer Katherine Williams Leckie

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth
Marriage			To Margaret Melvin Crawford
Death
Burial

Ancestry chart segment

    Generation 0                      Generation 1               Generation 2                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                         +-- John McNiven Leckie
                                                                                         |
                                                          +-- Archibald Crawford Leckie--+
                                                          |
                                +-- John Francis Leckie --+                                
                                |                         |
                                |                         +-- Margaret Mary Clark
                                |
   David John Leckie -----------+
                                |                         +-- Kenneth Zastrow
                                |                         |
                                |                         |
                                +-- Jaqueline Zastrow ----+
                                                          |                  
                                                          |
                                                          +-- Florence Gore

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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

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	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, imigrated 1923, papers filed, bricklayer, buildings; Margaret M., wife, 52, married at 19, b. Scotland, imig. 1924, alien; Mary, dau., 29, single, b. Scotland, imig 1925, alien, iron lady, garter mfg.; Jane, dau., 29, single, b. Scotland, imig 1925, alien,operator, telephone; Melvin, son, 18, single, in school, b. Scotland, imig 1924, papers filed; Archibald, son, 16, in school, b. Canada, imig 1924 papers filed; Duglas, son, 14, in school, b. Canada, imig 1924, papers filed. Family rents home at 1546 Rarlov St.
2	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.
3	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.
4	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.
5	Denholm Research Packet from John F. Leckie, Nov. 2013. Father of Archibald Crawford Leckie was John McNiven Leckie b. 9 Sept 1878 (or 1873?, faint print), at Kippen, Scotland