William "Bill" MCLEOD

Father: Isaac MCLEOD
Mother: Janet BRIMNER

Family 1: "Miss" MAXWELL
  1. Harry MCLEOD

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                  _William MCLEOD ____|
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 _Isaac MCLEOD __|
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|--William "Bill" MCLEOD 
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|                 _Phillip BRIMNER ___|
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|_Janet BRIMNER _|
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                 |_Catherine MURDOCH _|
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Notes

!SOURCE: Frank Grey, THE HISTORY OF THE MCLEODS OF HELENSVILLE: 1862-1962, privately published, Auckland, New Zealand, 1962, p. 23.

Frank Grey, HISTORY OF THE MCLEODS OF HELENSVILLE, (1962), p. 23.

"William was the fourth son of Isaac and Janet. He was a man of fine stature weighing just on eighteen stone. Tall and of immense girth he was known by the Maoris as "Wiremu Pukunui". Differing from his brothers who were mostly concerned with timber milling, he had a great love for the sea. He was for many years engaged in sailing the McLeod Cutters from Helensville to the various ports on teh Wairoa River. He married a Miss Maxwell, a young lady many years his junior, and they had one son Harry. William was better known as "Bill" and he acted as Stevedore on the many vessels loading timber at Helensville for Australia. He also built a raft of logs, solidly chained together, with a winch fastened on them, and, with the aid of the ship's tackle hoisted logs from the river on board the ship, thus saving the crew a lot of hard work, and expediting the loading. For some considerable time he was master of the schooner Opotiki and was engaged in carrying metal from Hukatere Island in the North of the Kaipara Harbour to Helensville for the formation of roads in the Te Pua and Parkhurst districts."


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