Mary Jane Leonard

MARY JANE LEONARD (1845-1911)

Mary Jane Leonard is the daughter of an Orkney man named John Leonard. Her mother was a Canadian First Nation woman named Alkoh. She was born at Fort George in British Columbia, Canada, on 16 Apr 1845. British Columbia Death Registrations Her father had been born on 15 May 1811, at Saviskaill in the north-west corner of the Orkney island of Rousay Scottish Baptisms and he entered the service of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1834. Orkneymen with the Hudson's Bay Company Mary Jane Leonard's mother may have belonged to the Fort George Indian Band, a Carrier people who are now known as the Wikipedia: Lheidli T'enneh Band Her mother is reported to have died at Fort George on 23 November 1849 and it is supposed that Mary Jane Leonard and her father removed to Fort Kamloops soon after this event.

The Campbell Ranch

Mary Jane Leonard's father pre-empted three hundred and fifty acres of land near the mouth of what became Campbell Creek, on the bank of the South Thompson River (Lot 265) and subsequently sold his holding to Mary Jane's husband Lewis Campbell, who continued to add to his holding until he had amassed nearly one thousand acres of land which stretched six miles along the South Thompson River.

Soujourning Sisters: The Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen p. 135

Soujourning Sisters: The Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen p. 136

Soujourning Sisters:The Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen p. 141

Soujourning Sisters: The Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen p. 142

Soujourning Sisters: The Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen p. 146

1881 Census

1881 Census of Canada

1891 Census

1891 Census of Canada

1901 Census

1901 Census of Canada: Part 1 and 1901 Census of Canada: Part 2

Death

Mary Jane Leonard died on 29 April 1911. She died at Campbell Creek, near Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada, probably at the ranch belonging to her husband. British Columbia Death Registrations

Burial

Mary Jane Leonard and her husband, Lewis Campbell were buried on the Campbell Creek Ranch, nearby to where their ranchhouse stood. Cemetery Project

Marriage

Mary Jane Leonard married Lewis Campbell at Kamloops in British Columbia. They married after the custom of the country: à la façon du pays. Jean Barman makes the following observation about their marriage: "Shortly after the birth of their third child in 1872, Campbell married their mother in a Catholic ceremony, ensuring that subsequent offspring would be baptised as legitimate rather than narural or illegitimate. Soujourning Sisters: The Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen p. 136

Children

Mary Jane Leonard and her husband Lewis Campbell had nine children whose names have been identified from their vital records. Their names follow:

1. Martha Silena Campbell
2. Willhelmina Campbell
3. Lewis Campbell
4. Walter Grant Campbell
5. Ulysses Simpson Campbell
6. Mary Jane Campbell, primus
7. Mary Jane Campbell, secundus
8. Reid Zeigler Campbell
9. Henrietta Audrey Campbell

Published Account of the Campbell Family

Jean Barman, Sojourning Sisters: The Lives And Letters of Jessiea and Annie McQueen (University of Toronto Press Incorporated, 2003), page 136 et seq.