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GUNN, Helen
(About 1850-Before 1908)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. MENZIES, Alexander
2. TWEEDLEY, Neil

3. Unknown
4. JEFFREY, James Gordon

GUNN, Helen

  • Born: About 1850
  • Marriage (1): MENZIES, Alexander 1
  • Marriage (2): TWEEDLEY, Neil on 22 Oct 1869 in Central District, Glasgow, Scotland 2
  • Marriage (3): Unknown 1
  • Marriage (4): JEFFREY, James Gordon
  • Died: Before 27 Dec 1908

   Other names for Helen were GUNN, Ellen, JEFFREY, Ellen, TWEEDLEY, Helen 3 and TWEEDLY, Ellen.

  General Notes:

Helen Tweedley was the informant of her son James's birth in 1882. She gave the date and place of her marriage as 22 October 1869 at Glasgow.

Ellen remarried, according to her son Neil's marriage certificate in 1908. Her name there was recorded as "Ellen Jeffrey previously Tweedly MS Gunn (deceased)". Another source gives her second husband's name as James Gordon Jeffrey. 3

  Research Notes:

I am indebted to B Tweedley for information about this family.


Helen married Alexander MENZIES.1 (Alexander MENZIES was born about 1815 and died before 29 Jul 1859.)


  Marriage Notes:

"John Leslie, fourth Laird of Kininvie, who married, first, Mary Gordon, daughter of the Laird of Haddo, progenitor of the Earls of Aberdeen, and had two sons, who both died young, and one daughter married to Gordon of Buckie."

from Family of Leslie 1

Helen next married Neil TWEEDLEY, son of Charles TWEEDLEY and Jane MASON, on 22 Oct 1869 in Central District, Glasgow, Scotland.2 (Neil TWEEDLEY was born about 1850 in Claybrae, Calton, Glasgow, Scotland 4 5 and died in 1883 6.)


Helen next married.1


  Marriage Notes:

"John Leslie, fourth Laird of Kininvie, who married, first, Mary Gordon, daughter of the Laird of Haddo .... He married, secondly, Margaret Ogilvie of Milton, and had issue..."

from Family of Leslie 1

Helen next married James Gordon JEFFREY. (James Gordon JEFFREY was born about 1850.)


Sources


1 e-books, Historical Records of the Family of Leslie 1067-1869 vol. 3 by Col. Leslie of Balquhain (1869).

2 LDS, IGI.

3 GRO Scotland, Birth certificate Blackfriars 644/5 No 667 1882-son James.

4 Glasgow or Paisley, Glasgow D-HEW 10/2/61 pag 158 1879.

5 1851 UK census, Parish: Glasgow St John, Lanarkshire; ED: 1; Page: 19.

6 various, email Theresa 2003 August/Sept.

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