Muslin cutter; Marriage 1844-50 Films 1042943, 102928-102930;
Pvt Scott Riffle; Two children were born to Helena before she married Archibald: Allan Lowry
Leck and Elizabeth Spence Leck; Archibald was a bachelor at time of marriage,
age 27, and Helena was a spinster, age 21. Archibald was living in the
Barracks at Maryhill at time.
Birthplace and birth and death data from his grandson, matches vital records indexes.
Often called Lena, domestic servant, had two children before her marriage, address at time of marriage was 57 Oran Street, Glasgow; death registered 644/5/864;
oldest child left to raise the younger children from 1907 to 1912 when father remarried;
death was at Canniseburn Hospital, Beardson
illigitimate birth, father not known, Mother listed as Lena Lowry Leck,
domestic servant, domicile 32 St. Clair St., Glasgow;
grew up in foster care, located family during WWII, died around Christmas 1975
Known to the family as Uncle Allen Hood thought to have been adopted by a family
Two marriages
Nettie from first wife,
Ian (Edinburg), Catherine, Robert (London), and another girl
illigitimate birth, father not known; mother listed as Lena Lowry Leck, dau of
a plasterer, living at 35 Bright Street, informant was child's mother; she is
not found in the records of Scotland for a marriage or a death; she may still
be living or she may have been adopted??
Engine fitter, journeyman, bachelor, living at 104 Grove St. in Glasgow at time of marriage;
Drapery sales; living at126 W Graham Street at time of marriage; shows Elizabeth as Mother,
(stepmother really), death date from dau Jane;
Birth Register #167, 1881 for birth; 2 months old, appears to be living with
grandparents, John and Elizabeth Spens Leck in 1881 Census in Barony, Glasgow;
his mother had died and his father was not listed with him; died of Hemphhilia,
age 50;
died after 1906 but not in Scotland;
Pastry cook man; residing at 274 Bath St. in Glasgow at time of marriage, married at 13 Royal
Terrace, Glasgow; death (644/12/120); informant was son T. D. Skinner, 19
Windsor Road, Widnes, England;
Bookkeeper; Registry states child is born at 95 Dundas St., Glasgow; married at age 24;
of 353 Bath Street, Glasgow, after banns; age 14 in 1891 Census; Informant of
death was husband, William Watt Skinner, 12 Melrose Gardens, Glasgow;
Problem: father died more than a year before she was born;
Informant for Father's death, living in Widnes, England;
shipwight;
Dunbarton from 1881 Census,
dau of William Walker and Margaret....
Baker;
Plasterer; states that his mother is Elizabeth Leck, m.s. Efford, dec, is she the mother who raised him? death reported by brother, John Leck, died of pneumons thorand, 9 days, phthesis pulma...18 mos.
Sign writer;