John Leask

    In the 1851 census there is a John born 1836 in James Leask/ Jane Sinclair family. In the 1841 Shetland census there was a John born in 1826 into the George Leask Mary Pottinger family. I have no idea if either John came to Canada.

     There was a John Leask who died in Port Dover, Ontario 13 Jan 1887 at the age of 77, a ships carpenter and born in the Orkney Islands. John Leask had a daughter Margaret (1839 – 1899) who married Edward Norquay (1835-1905). This John was too old for either of the above Johns.

    There was also a John Leask b 1837 who married Minnie Ross in 1866 in Haldimand County, Ontario. His father was John and his mother Isabella Mowat (I464567).