NELLIE LEASK ANDERSON

     Nellie Leask was born 17 Feb 1829 in Burra, Shetland, Henry 4 Mar 1829.  I recently found that James and Jane had another Nellie.  She died at about 5 years of age in 1825.  In those days it was common practice to reuse a name if the first child died.

    Henry was listed in the 1851 census as a servant and fisherman living with the family of John Sinclair in Minn. John was a possible brother of our Jane.   I assume this is how Nellie met Henry.   It was Henry’s marriage into this family that helped unravel the mystery of where my Leasks came from in Shetland. Abram’s marriage record guided me to Gussigarth and Henrys name along with his father-in-law James, on the Gussigarth list of tenants helped confirmed I was on the right track.

    Further a record of their son James birth in Gussigarth in 1854 confirmed I had the right family:
"James son of Henry Anderson & Nelly Leisk his wife was born at Gussigairth 8th Sept 1854"

 Henry Anderson and Nellie Leask had the following children:

• JAMES LEASK ANDERSON was born on 08 Sep 1854 in Gussigarth, Burra, Shetland. He died in 1858.

• JOHN W. ANDERSON was born on 09 Oct 1856 in Gussigarth, Burra, Shetland. He married BESSIE STONEHOUSE.

• MARGARET JANE ANDERSON was born on 06 May 1859 in Windham, Norfolk, Ontario. She died on 23 Oct 1938 in Charlotteville, Norfolk, Ontario (Age: 79). She married Lewis Absalom Unger on 06 Feb 1884 in Charlotteville, Norfolk, Ontario.

• HENRY ANDERSON was born on 22 Sep 1863 in Windham, Norfolk, Ontario. He died on 09 Jul 1889 in Norfolk

• WILLIAM ERASTUS ANDERSON was born on 11 Apr 1867 in Windham, Norfolk, Ontario. He died on 20 Feb 1914 in Wyoming, Lambton, Ontario. He married ANNIE (ANDERSON).

• ELLEN ANDERSON was born on 02 May 1869 in Charlotteville, Norfolk, Ontario. She married Alva German Kitchen on 23 Mar 1891 in Dehli, Norfolk, Ontario.

• HARVEY EUGENE ANDERSON was born on 23 Aug 1872 in Charlotteville, Norfolk, Ontario. He died in 1877 in Norfolk, Ontario.

    Henry followed his brother-in-law Captain Abram Leask to Canada circa 1857, settled in Windham Township and sailed with Abram on the Great Lakes as his First Mate and subsequently as Captain of Abraham's second schooner.

     (Census records for the Andersons in Ontario)
 
     Henry died in 1901 and Nellie in 1906, both in Windham. They are buried in the Bethel Cemetery.