(submitted by Donna Pullman)
Donald McLeay (1869–1945) came from a family of eleven children. As a young man he settled on Lot 16, Con. 2 NER, Warwick Twp. His marriage to Ellen Jane Watson (1872–1939) produced two children, Mary Catherine (1908–) and Robert Bain (1910–). According to the source of this information Donald was a first cousin to Murdo McLeay.
Mary Catherine married Burton McCallum Duncan in 1937. They had four children: twins Donald Daniel and Donna Jean (1940–), Robert Walter (1942–1963), and Kenneth William (1947–).
Mary and Burton moved to the farm in 1945. Burton purchased Kelvin Grove School SS#2, tore it down and built a house on the former school property. The bricks and lumber from the school were used in building the new home, and their grandson, Douglas Pullman, is living there now.
Donald, son of Mary Catherine and Burton Duncan, purchased the farm from Burton in 1967. Fire destroyed the house, which was rebuilt using bricks from the school. Donald and his wife Karen are living there in 2008.
Donna married Gordon Pullman and lives in Watford. Kenneth married Bernice Holeska and lives in Earlton.
Robert Bain McLeay, son of Donald and Ellen, married Maudie Goodwin in 1941. They had one daughter, Marilyn Ann, born in 1946.
McLeay family, 1944: Will McLeay, Tina (McLeay) Cook, Donald McLeay, twins Donald and Donna Duncan. Courtesy D Pullman.
Chapter 24 of 25 - McLeay Family
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