About Britain – Leith Hall
For a turn of the 1980s flash back to Leith Hall in 1979, About Britain made an episode on the Hall and NTS staff and life in at the property. Several old time staff feature in it as does Mrs Gascoigne. L Henrietta’s V O’Neill’s niece. The episode can be accessed at: https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/8370 This includes […]
Friends of Leith Hall
Support the property, NTS staff and local volunteers at Friends of Leith Hall at Facebook Groups. More details on community action can be found at: Friends of Leith Hall Please visit the community group and check the About Section for the Aims, To do list, Rules
Pitsligo’s Horse 1745-46
THE ARMY OF PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD (link) © A. McKenzie Annand and permission to link to article provided by www.sahr.org.uk Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research Vol. 60, No. 244 (WINTER 1982), pp. 226-235 (11 pages) This publication describes the actions and movements of Pitsligo’s Horse, a cavalry unit in the Jacobite Army […]
Salamanca 1812
Chapter 5, Leith and Maucune in Rory Muir’s Salamanca 1812 contains information on Andrew Leith-Hay and his uncle James Leith and the 5th division facing Maucune’s French division in the battle. Rory Muir has permitted an extract of his work on this chapter, which I will be placing here soon. For anyone interested in the […]
Edward McKenzie Scott – Rannes and QLD pioneer
Edward McKenzie Scott, the son of Charles McKenzie Scott and Sarah Hague, was born about 1834 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a member of the original party which settled at “Rannes”, consisting of Norman and James Leith Hay, Edward, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Sweet (the Station Manager) and Dan Conner, who accompanied this party […]
Leith of Glenkindie
Coming soon
Leith-Ross of Arnage
This is a brief account on the Leith-Ross family that descended from the Leith’s of Freefield and Glenkindie. Further information is available in more detail on the North American links of the family. John Ross, of Arnage, b. 13 March 1707, d 3 May 1789, m. 6 June 1728, Elizabeth, daughter of Turner of Turnerhall, […]
Liet. Gen James Leith – Isobel Knolls
Over the years I have had brief contact with the descendants of a George Leith born 29th Nov 1789 in Old Machar, Aberdeen, Scotland. George’s baptismal record lists him as the son of Captain James Leith of Leith Hall (the third son of John Leith III of Leith Hall and Harriet Steuart (Stuart) of Auchlunkart) […]
Wider Leith DNA project
More info to come. Note: If anyone with the surname Leith is interested in a Y-DNA project, please email from the main page.The name is a rarer and in terms of Y-DNA only two branches from the earlier Leith Hall family survive today from the Glenkindie line and Leith-Ross’ of Arnage families. The Leith-Hay’s descendants […]
Alexander Sebastian Leith-Hay and Christina G. A. Hamilton
Col. Alexander Sebastian Leith-Hay of Rannes and Leith Hall. Aberdeen, b. 1818, Granada in the West Indies, d.1900 at Leith Hall, h. 1862; m. 1860, Christina Grace Agnes, dau. of William Charles Hamilton, Esq. of Craighlaw, co. Wigton ; served in the 93rd Highlanders with distinction through the Canadian rebellion of 1838 and stayed in […]