| Name |
George Kidd Leeson [1, 2] |
| Birth |
Jul 1841 |
Montague Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Census - Agricultural Schedule |
24 Jun 1906 |
Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta, Canada |
| Milk cows: 1 |
| Life Sketch |
George Kidd Leeson and his family have tombstones in a family plot in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. [3] |
| Name |
Georgie [2] |
| _FGLINK |
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122938445 |
| _FGRAVE |
122938445 |
| _FSFTID |
LHZ3-VTS |
| _FSLINK |
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHZ3-VTS |
| _HASHTAG |
DNA - Paternal Connection |
- a relative on the path between a DNA Match and a common ancestor
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| _TAG |
Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821) |
| Death |
23 Jun 1910 |
Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta, Canada [1, 2] |
- George K Leeson
BIRTH?tab?Jul 1841
DEATH?tab?23 Jun 1910 (aged 68)
BURIAL?tab?
Union Cemetery
Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta, Canada
PLOT?tab?Section B, Blk 6, Plot 35
MEMORIAL ID?tab?122938445 ? View Source
?b?
George Leeson?/b?, of the little band of old timers in the city, died this morning at 2 o'clock. For the last three or four years Mr. Leeson has suffered in health and when the end came he passed away painlessly in his sleep. He was 68 years of age.
The deceased gentleman has been in bed ever since the month of December of last year. The funeral will take place on Sunday afternoon under the auspices of the Masonic body.
George K. Leeson came to Manitoba in 1880, afterwards coming west and engaging in the mail service, contracting to carry the mails from Qu-Apelle to Prince Albert, Swift Current, Battleford, Calgary, Edmonton and all western points which in those days was no small undertaking. Some years later Mr. Leeson moved to Calgary, where he has been one of Alberta's active business men and had always found among her most progressive citizens. He has been engaged in general merchandising, railroad contracting and many other speculations. He was the owner of large ranching interests at Morley, on the main line of the C.P.R., and has large property holdings in Calgary and other towns in the northwest. There were few men, if any, who had greater interests in Alberta than Mr. Leeson and there was no man in the Canadian northwest who had more friends. His successful business career was marked by honorable and upright dealings with his fellow man, and in the community where he lived there was non more respected or better liked.
He leaves a wife and a family of three. One daughter, Eileen, and a son, reside at home and another daughter, Mrs. M. Buchanan, lives at Winnipeg but was at her father's bedside when he passed away.
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| Burial |
Union Cemetery, Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta, Canada [1] |
Address:
27th. Ave. & Spiller Road SE
Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta
Canada
403 221-3660 |
- Plot: Section B, Blk 6, Plot 35
|
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George Kidd Leeson 1841-1910
|
| Person ID |
I4392 |
The Family History of Robert Duncan a Lanark Society Settler |
| Last Modified |
31 Mar 2023 |
| Father |
John Leeson, b. 1783, Killinane, County Carlow, Ireland d. 14 Oct 1849, Beckwith Township, Lanark County, Canada West (Age 66 years) |
| Mother |
Mary Kidd, b. 1801, Coan Townlands, County Kilkenny, Ireland d. 25 Mar 1874, Beckwith Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada (Age 73 years) |
| Marriage |
2 Apr 1823 |
Coolcullen Townlands, County Kilkenny, Ireland |
- Married in Mothell Parish, Church of Ireland
|
| Family ID |
F1496 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Annie Jane Geddes, b. 1 Oct 1859, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada d. 4 Nov 1920, Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta, Canada (Age 61 years) |
| Marriage |
9 Apr 1884 |
Harriston, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada [4] |
- www.ancestry.ca 160101
marriage register, Wellington Co., ON
Name:George K Leeson
Age:38
Birth Date:abt 1846
Birth Place:Lanark County
Marriage Date:9 Apr 1884
Marriage County or District:Wellington
Father:John Leeson
Mother:Mary Kidd
Spouse: Annie Jane Geddis
Spouse's Age:24
Spouse Birth Date:abt 1860
Spouse Birth Place:Morris
Spouse Father:John Geddis
Spouse Mother:Mary Miller
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Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1938 Harriston 1884 George Kidd Leeson and Annie Jane Geddes
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| Children |
| | 1. Rubie Leeson, b. 26 Jan 1885, Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta, Canada d. 18 Nov 1885, Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta, Canada (Age 0 years) |
| | 2. Gorgina Leeson, b. 11 May 1886, Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta, Canada d. 12 Mar 1963, High River, Alberta, Canada (Age 76 years) |
| | 3. Mary Eileen Leeson, b. 1889, Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta, Canada d. 29 May 1935, Vermont, United States (Age 46 years) |
| | 4. John Geddes Leeson, b. 31 Jul 1891, Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta, Canada d. 13 Oct 1892, Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta, Canada (Age 1 year) |
| | 5. John Scott Leeson, b. 1 Dec 1894, Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta, Canada d. 16 Mar 1950, Vancouver, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada (Age 55 years) |
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| Family ID |
F1533 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
10 Feb 2021 |
1841 - 1910 (~ 68 years)
