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Griffith’s Valuation: Major Leslie Landowners by Estate / County
Griffith’s Valuation: Major Leslie Landowners by Estate or County (The full listing of tenants will be printed in the Leslies of Ireland book.) https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Ireland,_Valuation_Office_Books_-_FamilySearch_Historical_Records The Leslies in Ireland listed below held land in many counties in Ireland during the time of Griffith’s Valuation, listed below are the counties with significant holdings. The number shown is the…
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Tips for Travel to Scotland and Ireland
As summer approaches, some of you will be traveling to either Scotland or Ireland. For some of you it is a regular pilgrimage and for others it is your first time visiting these magical and beautiful countries. Either way, it is a trip of a lifetime! While we have some travel information on the Foundation…
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Griffith’s Valuation Project
As part of the research for the book The Leslies in Ireland information from the Griffith’s Valuation is being collected. The records span a time period from 1847 to 1864 with various counties recorded in different years. The information is a recording of landowners and their tenants organized by county and townland or parish in…
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The Leslie Papers Transcribed in Australia
The Leslie Papers Transcribed While searching for information on Leslie Papers in Australia, I came across this blog post. The Leslie Papers Transcribed https://learnearnandreturn.wordpress .com/tag/george-leslie/ The author reported that she was reading through the Leslie Family papers housed at the John Oxley Library in the State Library in Queensland. The Leslie papers are a collection…
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Was Patrick Leslie of Warthill A “Remittance Man”?
As I was working on editing the book The Leslie Family in the Antipodes, I wondered if Patrick and his brothers Walter and George were sent to Australia as “remittance men”. During the University of Aberdeen course on the Scottish Diaspora, I learned about remittance men in the 1800s. This term referred to a person,…
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Book Now Available: The Leslie Family in the Antipodes
The Leslie Family in the Antipodes book is NOW AVAILABLE The Leslie Global Diaspora Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of the book The Leslie Family in the Antipodes. The manuscript written by Jillian A. Burcher in 1998 was found among the documents at Wardhill Estate. In keeping with the mission of the LGDF,…
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Projects Are Central to the Mission of the Foundation
Our Purpose The primary purpose of the Leslie Global Diaspora Foundation is to identify worthwhile projects related to Leslie history and heritage. This month the Foundation has hit a “home run”. Fetternear Info Board First, due to generosity of supporters for the Fetternear Bishops Palace and Leslie Mansion information board project, a new board is…
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Leslie Global Diaspora Foundation Scholarship Opportunity
Leslie Global Diaspora Foundation Scholarship Opportunity Scotland: History, Heritage and Culture Summer Programme DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION TO THE UNIVERSITY IS MARCH 31, 2026 Program Dates: Sunday 26th July to Saturday 8th August 2026 Topics: Medieval and Renaissance Scotland Political Unions (1603 v 1707) Scotland and the Jacobite Cause The Scottish Enlightenment Radical Scotland Scottish emigration…
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Walter Leslie in Denmark
According to the Historical Records of the Family of Leslie, Vol 3 by Colonel K. H. Leslie published in 1869, Walter Leslie grandson of Alexander Leslie of Kininvie went to Denmark in the mid-1500s. In listing the children of Alexander, the book says: “Walter, who went to Denmark, and married there; and many persons of…
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The Leslies Down Under
This week I heard from a Leslie descendant who sent me a link to a website which has information about Patrick Leslie of the Warthill Leslies. The link to the blog post is: http://www.heritagewaikato.org/node/17 Here is a clip from the article: “One of the first estate owners in Matangi was Patrick Leslie, who with his…
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Two Week Summer Program at University of Aberdeen
The Leslie Global Diaspora Foundation has been in contact with the University of Aberdeen and is pleased to announce this summer study program in Scotland. Contact Dr. Lewis Johnson at Lew.Johnson@LeslieGDF.org for more information on how the Leslie Global Diaspora Foundation can assist. Scotland: History, Heritage and Culture Summer Programme Program Dates: Sunday 26th July…
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Kincraigie Leslies in Scotland
The Leslies of Kincraigie branched from the Balquhain line when William Leslie, second son of Sir William Leslie, 4th Baron of Balquhain bought the lands of Kincraigie from his brother Alexander 5th of Balquhain in 1470. According to Col. Leslie in The Family of Leslie Vol 3, Patrick Leslie,the 5th laird of Kincraigie, had two…
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Fetternear Bishop’s Palace
This is the proposed wording for the new information sign to be located at Fetternear. The existing sign is in poor shape and parts are unreadable. Therefore, the Leslie Global Diaspora Foundation has a funding project to replace the existing sign. Below is the proposed wording written by Dr. P. Dransart, the archaeologist who did…
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A Leslie “By Any Other Name”
One of the Foundation’s directors sent me a link to a blog posting on Leslie history. I thought the information would be of interest to Leslies, so here is the link to the blog. The Leslies: Just one Duke of Rothes but many generals in Scotland, Russia and Austria by Jonathan Spangler posted June 23,…
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The Fetternear Banner
Recently, the Foundation has been doing some research on Fetternear the Bishop’s Palace and the Leslie connection in Aberdeenshire. This article on the Fetternear Banner was located online and helps fill in some of the Leslie history related to the Leslies of Wardhill Estate. The article published in St Moluag’s Coracle, a Scottish Catholic magazine,…